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Fancy Brilliants
The Brilliant design has been implemented on various shapes resulting in stones such as ovals, hearts, marquise and pears.

 


Brilliant Cut Diamond
The Brilliant Cut
The brilliant cut for diamonds was invented or perfected over 60 years ago, and is quite simply the best cut for most diamonds, and the most popular.

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Brilliant Cut Facets
The Brilliant Cut Diamond has 58 Facets on the surface. 33 of these cuts are on the Crown (Top Portion of the Diamond), and 25 Facets on the Pavilion (Bottom Portion of the Diamond).

Ideal Brilliant
(1926 - Johnson and Roesch)
height of crown 19.2% of the girdle diameter
depth of pavilion 40.0% of the girdle diameter
diameter of table 56.1% of the girdle diameter
crown/pavilion height 1 : 2.0.

BRILLIANT CUT:
A gemstone cutting style involving multiple facets designed to maximize brilliance. A modern round brilliant cut diamond or gemstone has 58 facets. Also known as full cut.
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Modified brilliant cuts, such as the pear shape can at best approach the brilliance and sparkle of a perfect round brilliant cut, but if they are badly proportioned, it is also easy for them to lose brilliance.

The modern "Round Brilliant Cut" (below) was developed by Belgian diamond-cutter Marcel Tolkowsky in 1919. This cut is also known as the "Tolkowsky Cut" and "Tolkowsky Brilliant.

The unique cutting style of the Red Cross Diamond is commonly known as 'Stellar Brilliant'. There are eight needle-like facets at the edge of the stone. The cutting was done in Amsterdam.

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This narrow range is reserved for the most brilliant, rare and valuable diamonds. The "Excellent" range includes beautiful diamonds that return almost as much light.

Brilliant Cut: One of three styles of faceting arrangements. In this type of arrangement, all facets appear to radiate out from the center of the diamond toward its outer edges.

Brilliant cut:
The brilliant cut is one of the most famous and popular types of diamond cuts. This quality diamond cut can be made into a range of shapes and still maintain the brilliance expected when you think of a diamond.

Brilliant Cut
Cut with a facet arrangement that radiates from the centre of the stone towards the girdle, with triangular or kite-shaped facets.

Brilliant
The term brilliant is often used interchangeably with the mineral diamond.

Brilliant Cut: Brilliant cuts are scientifically found to reflect the most light from within the stone, and often are considered to have the most brilliance of all cuts. A round brilliant cut diamond has 58 facets.

Brilliant Cut - Brilliant Cut maximizes the brilliance and fire of a diamond. A brilliant cut diamond has more facets (57 or 58 if the culet facet is also included) as compared to other cut styles.

Brilliant Cut: Cutting style of a round diamond with triangular or kite shaped facets that radiate from the centre toward the girdle. A brilliant cut contains 57 or 58 facets, depending on whether there's a culet.

Brilliant cut: The standard round brilliant consists of a total of 58 facets: 1 table, 8 bezel facets, 8 star facets and 16 upper-girdle facets on the crown; and 8 pavilion facets, 16 lower-girdle facets, and usually a culet on the pavilion, ...

brilliant cut Usually refers to a full-cut brilliant of fifty-eight facets, with thirty-two facets and table above the girdle, twenty-four facets and a culet below; used almost universally in cutting larger round diamonds.

BRILLIANT CUT - The most common style of diamond cutting, also used for many other gemstones, which consists of a combination of triangular and kite shaped facets. The round brilliant cut features 57 or 58 facets.
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Brilliant cut: Round-shaped stone consisting of a minimum of fifty-eight facets.
Cabochon cut: The art of rounding a gem without facets into the shape of a highly-polished dome.
Carat: Used to denote the weight of gems.

brilliant cut a rhinestone or paste stone that has been cut with twice the number of cuts (usually 16) than a chaton cut stone has therefore giving it more brilliance.

Brilliant Cut
A modern round faceted cut, usually used for diamonds, but also popular for various colored precious stones.

Brilliant Cut
Round diamond, the most popular shape. So named because a round diamond is symmetrical and capable of reflecting nearly all of the light that enters it.

Brilliant Cut
A round cut of 58 facets mathematically devised to produce the greatest brilliance.
Brooch
An ornamental piece of jewelry with a pin and clasp to be attached to clothing.

Brillianteering - The placing and polishing of the 40 remaining facets on a brilliant-cut diamond after the main bezel and pavilion facets have been placed and polished.

Brilliant Cut: A 57-facet round diamond. This shape and faceting arrangement is designed for maximum brilliance, sparkle and beauty.
Bruise: Damage consisting of surface crumbling, often accompanied by tiny, root like feathers.

Brilliant Cut
Brilliant Cut is the most common style of gemstone cutting and it is called a brilliant cut because it is designed to maximize brilliance.

BRILLIANT. A style of diamond-cutting with fifty-six facets, exclusive of table and culet.
BRITTLE. A mineral, when it may be readily broken by a blow.

Brilliant Cut - The style of cutting a stone with multiple facets in a particular way designed to maximize brilliance. Modern round brilliant cuts have 58 facets.
Briolette - A tear or pear shaped stone cut in triangular facets.

Brilliant cut
The brilliant cut is the standard for diamond, but also used on other gems. It typically has 57 facets, or 58 with a culet.

BRILLIANTS: Another term for paste, strass, crystal, or rhinestones.
BRIOLETTE: An oval or pear-shaped diamond entirely faceted in triangular cuts.
CABACHON: A stone without facets, and shaped like a dome.

Brilliant-cut: A cut gemstone having 56 to 58 facets to maximize the volume of light that is reflected from the inside and thus produce the greatest brilliance.

brillianteerer The diamond cutter who specializes in the last forty facets of the brilliant cut. See brillianteering.

Brilliant Cut: The most ideal cut for a gemstone - usually a diamond - that shows off its depth, beauty, and light reflection to maximum potential.

Brilliant Cut Stones - this type of stone has twice as many facets so as to maximize the sparkle and brilliance of the stone.

BRILLIANT CUT
Brilliant cut stones have 56 facets, 32 facets are above the girdle, 24 are below. Most modern-day diamonds are brilliant cut since it maximizes the amount of reflected light from the stone (its natural fire).

Brilliant Cut
Brilliant Cut is a style of cut that has 56 facets to maximize brilliance (the luminous reflection of a stone, particularly the diamond). It dates back to the 1600's.

Brilliant Full Cut:
This traditional faceting or cutting style for diamonds which improves the optical effect. The perfection of the diamond as a gem was only realized by the modern full-cut brilliant.

Brilliant Cut:
A 58-facet round diamond, sometimes still called the American Brilliant. This shape and faceting arrangement are designed for maximum brilliance, sparkle and beauty.

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Brilliant-full Cut
This cut has at least 32 facets plus the table on the upper part, and 24 facets on the lower part. Usually refereed to as a brilliant cut when talking about diamonds.
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Round Brilliant
All prices are based on the "round brilliant" shape. You will find variances in price dependent on the diamond shape.

Round brilliant diamonds
The Classic Cut: the vast majority of diamonds sold are rounds. The traditional choice for all occasions and preferred by many for their personal investment portfolio.

Round Brilliant Cut: See Brilliant cut.
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Zircon: brilliant but misunderstood
Hindu poets tell of the Kalpa Tree, the ultimate gift to the gods, a glowing tree covered in gemstone fruit with leaves of zircon.

Baroque Brilliant Cut A round shaped stone that has a minimum of fifty-eight facets.
Bead A hollow gemstone, usually round, designed to be strung.

Brilliant cut: Collective name for gemstone cuts where the lower facets radiate from the center of the gem. Round cut is the most common.
Diamond cut: See "round cut"
Emerald cut: Rectangular or square step cut with diagonal corners.

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Brilliant
A good proportion of light returned to the viewer eye.
Brilliant cut
Most common cut of round Diamonds. With 58 facets (33 on the crown & table and 25 on the pavilion & cullet).

Brilliant Cut: A round diamond that contains 58 facets.
Carat: Measurement used for the weight of a diamond. One carat is equal to 100 points or one fifth of a gram.

Brilliant Round
A classic diamond to most people is a round gem of sparkling white brilliance with a kaleidoscope of dazzling facets. This shape has set the standard for all other diamond shapes and accounts for more than 75% of diamonds sold today.

Brilliant cut gemstones are known to have the most vibrancy and sparkle. With many facets radiating from the center out to the girdle, a brilliant cut maximizes the amount of light that is reflected from the core of the gemstone.

Brilliant Cut
Diamonds fashioned in the round shape with 58 facets. It is the most efficient cut for diamonds cut from octahedral rough.
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Brilliant cut
Round diamond with 57 facets (58 in case culet is present). The most brilliant form of diamond as compared to other cuts.
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BRILLIANT CUT
A round shaped gemstone with 58 facets also known as a full cut.. A round, full cut Diamond is correctly called a Brilliant Cut. The term refers to the shape of the gemstone, not quality or actual brilliance.

Brilliant: A type of cutting, used especially on diamonds with 58 facets, and also, now used as a synonym for a brilliant-cut diamond.
Burnisher: A tool for polishing metal by burnishing (by rubbing and pressing it with the steel).

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