Aspeco · New York
Antique Cuts
Welcome to my office. I made this archive of antique-inspired diamond cuts for the community,
a personal reference drawn from my experience. What follows reflects my own knowledge, interpretation, and eye.
I hope it serves you.
The full experience needs JavaScript. The cuts, in plain text:
Peruzzi
An early brilliant. Fifty-eight facets worked by eye on a squared outline, with a high crown and an open culet you can look straight down into.
Baroque Old Mine Cut
A carefree diamond cut to its original form.
Baroque Old Mine
A diamond cut with its culet off center.
Baroque Old Mine Couple
Two whimsical diamonds sculpted to their true form. Not for everyone, but they belong together.
Baroque Old Mine Bracelet
A line of old mines set together, every outline different. This is why old-cut jewelry moves the way it does under light.
Perfect Square Old Mine
A 1:1 ratio old mine, cut for maximum light return while holding antique character.
Rounded Old Mine Cut
The real Victorian style of cutting Old Miners. A soft-cornered cushion with a thin, unpolished girdle and a small table.
Elongated Old Mine
A stretched cushion.
Elongated Old Mine Couple
A matched pair of long cushions. The kind you assemble over years rather than order.
Old European
Round in outline, antique pattern. Broad facets, large culet, high crown.
Antique Asscher
A square step cut with clipped corners and real depth. You look down through the steps as though into a well.
Antique Emerald
Art Deco meets vintage charm. Fewer, wider steps and a smaller table than a modern emerald, so the flashes come broad and slow.
Antique Oval
An egg-shaped diamond with a large culet and broad facets.
Antique Pear
A drop-shaped diamond with a rounded body.
Caramel Vintage Pear
A curvy vintage cut
Chocolate Single Cut
An Asscher with no steps in crown or pavilion.
Antique Marquise
The navette, pointed at both ends, and in old cutting far softer through the belly than its modern descendant.
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