Baguette Diamonds Display a Different Type of Long & Slender Beauty.

Baguette diamonds show a sophisticated & sleek look when set in engagement rings and wedding bands. They Call back your attention to the Art Deco era, True to their name, baguette diamonds are long and slender. In the French language, baguette means a long, thin loaf of French bread. It is distinguishable by its length and crisp crust.

Rings Featuring Baguette Diamonds

Baguette cut diamonds are step cut diamonds. They are long and rectangular in shape and offer exceptional clarity. The cut brings out a different type of beauty in a diamond as against the classic round cut diamond. It reveals remarkable clarity & a distinguishing look when studded in fine jewelry. Step cut diamonds come in rectangular & square shapes. Their facets are carved in straight lines. The narrow and long facets emit a prism like reflection reminiscent of a staircase thus giving the name of step cut.

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Gemstones sporting this delicate cut bring Art Deco richness to your ring and vintage flair to your finger.

The prototype of the baguette cut diamond was the hogback cut. It was a drawn-out table cut used since the early sixteenth century. Cartier and Harry Winston brought it into fashion in the early 20th century when Art Deco was at its peak. It came to be called as the baguette cut. During this era, streamlined forms and geometric patterns were in vogue. As such, Asscher, Emerald and Baguette cut diamonds ruled the roost.

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Baguette and Emerald cut look a lot alike because of the silky-shiny step facets. Nonetheless, the two diamond designs are quite different. The emerald cut sports angled corners. On the other hand, the baguette cut features squared-off corners.

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Straight baguette diamonds are perfect squares or rectangles with opposite sides parallel to one another. On the other hand, tapered baguette diamonds are broader at one end and taper at the other end generating a trapezoidal shape. Both types frame a center gemstone with lot of grace. However, the tapered baguettes create an alluring geometry and an appealing symmetry in three stone rings!

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Baguette diamonds are set in multiples. They are almost always used as side-stones or diamond accents. This is because the low facet count [of fourteen facets only] enhances any diamond shape without distracting attention from the beauty of the center stone. Occasionally they are studded around the band of a ring or a wedding-band in a halo setting. The long and relatively thin diamond can be easily entrenched into a thin band.