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Pear Cut Diamond – A Unique Styled Diamond

Author: Angelina Gertz
by Angelina Gertz
Posted: Feb 26, 2016

Diamonds are rare and expensive. It takes billions of years to form a diamond and needs exhaustive process to give a commercial and polished piece of jewelry. The arrangements of atoms in diamonds make them rigid and solid and hence they are non-brittle and hard in nature.

It becomes difficult to choose a diamond cut as all the cuts are extremely beautiful and classy. However, pear cut diamond looks stunningly beautiful and is more in demand in market. It is a hybrid cut diamond. It is a beautiful fusion of round brilliant and marquise shaped diamond. This exclusively beautiful shape is also known as ‘tear drop shape’ which has chic round and pointed shapes on opposite direction. This shape is impressive and unique and has excellent brilliance and sparkle.

Uniqueness of Tear Drop Shaped Diamonds:

  • This shape of diamond has all 58 sparkling facets which are available in a sparkling round traditional cut.
  • This shape of diamond can be used as a Centre piece in your jewelry or as accents.
  • The shape is unique and uncommon.
  • If the diamond is transformed into a ring, they make the finger look elongated, slimmer and longer. It is always worn with the narrow end pointing towards the hand of the wearer.

Characteristics of Tear Drop Shaped Diamonds:

  • Sparkle: The sparkle of the diamond should be proper. A ‘bow-tie’ appearance in the tear drop cut diamond should not appear, it is considered as an imperfection in a diamond.
  • Symmetry: The symmetry of the tear drop cut diamond should be taken into account. The rounded edges should appear even. The point of the tear drop shape should be matching the center of the rounded edges exactly.
  • Length and width ratio: The ideal cut should have the length and width ratio between 1.50 and 1.75. The cuts with less than 1.50 ratios look chubby in shape while the 1.75 ratio looks too skinny.

Best Setting for the Tear Drop Diamond:

The pear shape should be set with a prong at the point. 6 prong setting is the best followed by the 5 prong setting.

Whenever you buy a diamond, these diamonds should be certified ones. The certification reports help you to have a legal assurance of what you are buying is of specified quality. This increases the value of diamond in global market as well. The reports are made by throughout inspection by trained gemologists in accredited labs.
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