{"id":128,"date":"2008-08-20T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T06:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/princess-cut-diamond-engagement-rings\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T06:08:52","slug":"princess-cut-diamond-engagement-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/princess-cut-diamond-engagement-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Cut Diamond Engagement Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\">princess cut diamonds<\/a> have considerably more popular than in past years, selling at the rate of approximately 70% of round diamonds.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The princess cut, as opposed to the round is square with sharp corners. This allows for a sleek modern look, as opposed to the more traditional round.<\/p>\n<p>The princess cut has the following advantages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A lot cheaper &#8211; sometimes nearly half the price of an equivalent round diamond.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike other fancy shapes, such as oval or marquise, light return is similar to rounds for AGS Ideal grades.<\/li>\n<li>Can be graded using the AGS cut grading system.<\/li>\n<li>To the naked eye, princess cuts generally look bigger than an equivalent round diamond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below are two diamonds, one round, one princess, both 0.75ct. As you can see, under magnification, the princess cut diamond looks only slightly smaller, despite being half the price:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Princess Cut Diamond vs Round Diamond\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/princess_vs_round.jpg\" alt=\"Princess Cut Diamond vs Round Diamond\" width=\"350\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0The princess cut also lends itself to &#8220;corner claws&#8221;, as opposed to prongs, like say a Tiffany setting, as seen below:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Corner Claws\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/engagement_rings\/ER20-3.jpg\" alt=\"Corner Claws\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past year, princess cut diamonds have considerably more popular than in past years, selling at the rate of approximately 70% of round diamonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}