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DIAMOND BASICS

Radiant Cut Diamonds With Fire and Sparkle...

The radiant cut diamonds are cut-cornered or rectangular and they have truncated corners.

The Radiant Cut Diamond combines the classic elegance of the traditional emerald cut shape with the sparkle of the "brilliant" cut.

Prior to the development of the Radiant Cut, all diamonds with straight edges which faceted with long rectangular facets.

Radiant cut diamonds are especially popular for fancy-color diamonds because the shape, proportioning and facet arrangement intensify the color.

The fancy color radiant cut diamonds usually have lower length-to-width ratios that are closer to a square than a rectangle.



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The radiant cut is the first rectangular cut to have a complete brilliant facet pattern applied to both the crown and pavilion and as such presents a much more dazzling and brilliant diamond than the simple emerald cut.

Other diamond shapes tend to have lighter areas than others as the facet patterns do not show color evenly throughout the stone.

Squarer shaped diamonds are most popular among radiant cut diamonds. At the same time, square radiants have been a popular choice diamond shoppers looking for a very bright & brilliant square cut diamond.

Square Radiant Cut Diamonds are most finely made Radiant Cuts available in the marketplace.

Original Radiant cut diamond makes an amazing center stones for three stone rings.

While shopping it is important to remember the 3 C’s- Clarity, Cut and Color.

Rectangular shaped diamonds like the radiant cut differ from circles, like round diamonds. A circle is symmetrical but a rectangle is not. In round diamonds, depth percentage, crown height and pavilion depth are measured relative to the diameter of the diamond.

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