{"id":112,"date":"2008-05-14T20:02:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T11:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondsandopals.com\/blog\/square-hearts-and-arrows-cut\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T06:21:09","slug":"square-hearts-and-arrows-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/square-hearts-and-arrows-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Hearts and Arrows Cut!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, we received our first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/diamonds\/diamonditem.php?code=CXF6579\">square hearts and arrows<\/a> cut diamond. It&#8217;s just under a carat (0.87ct) and an F\/VS1, with excellent polish and symmetry, as graded by the GIA.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve mentioned before, square cuts are <u>extremely<\/u> popular at the moment. From asscher cuts, princess cuts to radiants, these square cuts are giving the traditionally popular round brilliant a run for their money &#8211; at up to 40% less!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main Differentiating Factors Between Square Cuts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main differentiating factors between square cuts are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Princess Cut &#8211; Brilliant with sharp corners<\/li>\n<li>Asscher (Square Emerald) &#8211; Cut cornered step cut, for a more elegant look.<\/li>\n<li>Cushion and Radiant Cut &#8211; Rounded or cut cornered brilliant cuts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It should also be noted that a radiant or cushion cut can be set into a ring so it looks like a princess cut (eg corner claws). Similarly, a princess cut can also be set into a ring to make it look like a radiant or even cushion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contrast is King!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are in fact A LOT of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/a-huge-list-of-diamond-shapes-and-brands\/\">patented square and rectangular cuts<\/a>, as it seems every diamond manufacturer has their own patented square cut that outshines the rest. One of these patented square cuts that we used to stock was the Aleya cut &#8220;with 81 facets to maximise light refraction&#8221;. The problem was that the contrast was concentrated in the centre of the stone, and not evenly distributed throughout the stone, as shown in the Ideal-Scope picture below:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Aleya Cut Ideal Scope Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/analysis\/CS4-is.jpg\" alt=\"Aleya Cut Ideal Scope Image\" width=\"197\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">However, with our new square hearts and arrows diamonds, the hearts and arrows provides an extremely pleasing visual balance, combined with superior light return:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Square H&amp;A Ideal Scope Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/analysis\/CXF6579-is.jpg\" alt=\"Square H&amp;A Ideal Scope Image\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This particular square H&amp;A is due to be set into one of our handcrafted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/engagement_rings\/\">diamond engagement rings<\/a> and displayed in our Perth showroom (which will be redesigned shortly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, we received our first square hearts and arrows cut diamond. It&#8217;s just under a carat (0.87ct) and an F\/VS1, with excellent polish and symmetry, as graded by the GIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diamonds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}