Show Me your 2-3ct Asscher & baguette settings

[kholt6]

I am completely obsessed with Kate Bosworth's engagement ring, it's such a beauty! I'd love to see your bling combined with a baguette setting. Kates appears so delicate, could this be due to the baguettes being channel set? I haven't really seen this level of delicacy in any of the settings I've found locally (London based). Also how would you describe her stone cut? (apologies, I'm a newbie) it looks like an asscher but appears to be completely square.

 

[Matthews1127]

I am completely obsessed with Kate Bosworth's engagement ring, it's such a beauty! I'd love to see your bling combined with a baguette setting. Kates appears so delicate, could this be due to the baguettes being channel set? I haven't really seen this level of delicacy in any of the settings I've found locally (London based). Also how would you describe her stone cut? (apologies, I'm a newbie) it looks like an asscher but appears to be completely square.

Her Center ER stone appears to be an Asscher. It's described as "square cut", so, it may be a Square Cut Emerald, but it appears to be a true 1.00:1 l x w ratio Asscher due to the meeting windmills in the center, and the actual shape to the naked eye. Either way, it's a step cut diamond. I'm not certain of the carat weight, but I'd imagine somewhere between 1.5-2.5ct depending on her finger size; she seems to have very thin fingers...
I have an Emerald cut (l x w ratio: 1.45:1. It's rectangular, not square) ER center, and I wear a 1/2 Eternity, bar set Baguette & Round band.
Emerald Cuts & Asschers are in the same family, and they have a certain charm & sophistication.
Best of luck on your journey!!! I'm certain you'll get more responses from those with SQ EC's and Asschers!!!

 

[foxinsox]

(Some furious googling later) I think you're right that it's an asscher - they pretty much should be square as far as I know. Once they get elongated, they're more like emerald cuts. The pictures I could see of her ring look like the baguettes are gypsy set so are flush with the surface of the cathedral shoulders.
It's a lovely ring!

 

[kholt6]

Thank you so much for identifying the setting. I'm sure it's an asscher as well, it's just the right angle appearance of the corners is baffling me am i correct in thinking asschers have an an octagon appearance, with flat corners? .... perhaps it's a vintage cut !!

 

[valeria101]

The stone is a cut-cornered square step cut with relatively small corner facets - some would call such a diamond an Asscher because it is square, some would not accept that it is an Asscher because the corner facets are not large enough (i.e. the outline too close to square & not close enough to octagon).

I cannot tell whether this is a strict square or a square-ish rectangular stone. Slightly rectangualr diamodns are rarely acknowledged as Asschers, if everything else fits the historical design (large corner facets, large steps & certain proprotions ...). I never really knew if the historical Asscher pattent (if indeed there ever was one) wa strict about square-ness or not ! In any case, the aprox. 1.1X1 stones that do get called Asscher look like this: WWW

By any other name ...

This picture WWW seems to show a bit of detail around the baguettes - which seem to be supported between two raised, flat ridges of Pt. at their ends (REF) - rather common for SMALL baguettes in ... not so sophisticated settings (and fine stuffs too - it is a common method for a reason). I am not sure if this is Gypsy or Bar - setting, or, simply, known by a few names, much like the diamond model is.

The ring has surprising proportions indeed: the setting is slight relative to the stone (a choice of style - with minor consequences re. wear...), and the baguettes very small indeed ! Obviously just accenting the ends of the narrow ends of the shank reaching up to the light basket construction (seen better here WWW)...

The lightweight 'cathedral' style setting reminds AOP 'Princessa' (r6209) closely - WWW ; a very tightly designed setting ... that may or may not be possible with little baguettes: I am not seeing any done this way. AOP errs toward large, sophisticated side-stone rather than minute baguettes ...

You might have some convincing to do, toward a modified r6209; however, it is relatively more difficult to persuade bench jewelers to make such lightweight settings, where subtle choices of metallurgy & structure provide support, absent BULK. Neither is impossible & there are a few more great workshops mentioned around here; esp. VC has an interesting one-bar-only manner of setting side stones WWW ('groove-set'), that seems to fit this design - if they think it is gonna hold together.


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REF
Google 'bar-set diamond baguette sidestones' - else you'd get allot of 'bar-set' diamond bands for which the method is more common

 

[valeria101]

ctd.

these being said ...

May I ask about the blue ring on you middle finger in the avatar picture ? Interesting object !

 

[diamondseeker2006]

I can't see her ring close enough to really know, but there are carre cut diamonds that are square step cuts without the cut corners. I imagine hers does have small cut corners, though, just judging from the prongs.

 

[kholt6]

ctd.

these being said ...

May I ask about the blue ring on you middle finger in the avatar picture ? Interesting object !

Thank you for all your detailed information.

Isn't it beautiful, it's the Earth Ring by Ambyr Childers Jewelry It's a blue lapis lazuli, beveled stone, surrounded in micro set diamonds. I can't claim it's my own unfortunately but one to go on the Christmas list.

 

[kholt6]

Sorry guys, here are a few images of the ring in question, it's my 1st time posting on the forum so I must not have attached them properly 1st time round -

 

[lambskin]

I love her ring too. But I am always in favor of a three stone ER with baguettes set nice and low in plat..