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The cut and shape of a diamond play a defining role in its beauty. A well-cut diamond should feel balanced, precise, and beautifully proportioned, allowing light to move through the stone with brilliance and depth. While the cut influences how the diamond reflects light, the shape gives the stone its character — from the timeless radiance of a round brilliant to the quiet elegance of an emerald cut.

This SARATTI guide explores the most recognised diamond cuts and shapes, helping you choose with clarity whether you are selecting a natural diamond, a lab-grown diamond, or beginning a bespoke piece.

Choosing the Perfect Diamond Cut

Every diamond shape carries its own character. Some shapes are chosen for brilliance, others for softness, structure, or the way they sit on the hand. A round brilliant diamond offers classic light, while an emerald cut feels refined and architectural. An oval or pear shape can create graceful length, while a cushion cut brings warmth and romance.

At SARATTI, we guide you through each shape with care, helping you choose the diamond that best reflects your style, your story, and the piece you wish to create.

Round Diamond Cut

The round brilliant diamond is the most iconic and technically perfected of all diamond shapes, celebrated for its exceptional fire, brilliance, and scintillation.

Traditionally cut with 57 or 58 facets, including the table, crown, girdle, pavilion, and culet when present, the round brilliant is designed to return the maximum amount of light through the top of the stone. Each facet is precisely angled to reflect and refract light, creating the bright white brilliance and flashes of colour that make this cut so enduringly admired.

Its circular outline gives the diamond perfect visual balance, while its symmetrical facet arrangement allows it to perform beautifully across solitaire, pavé, halo, and three-stone settings. At SARATTI, round brilliant diamond designs are chosen for proportion, symmetry, and luminous presence — creating pieces that feel timeless, refined, and effortlessly elegant.

Pear Shape Diamond

The pear shape diamond is defined by its elegant teardrop silhouette, combining a rounded brilliant end with a refined tapered point. Usually cut with 56 to 58 facets, it is designed to capture light across the body of the stone while creating a graceful sense of movement.

Proportion is essential. The shoulders should be balanced, the wings evenly curved, and the point precisely aligned, giving the diamond symmetry, brilliance, and a naturally lengthening effect on the hand.

At SARATTI, pear shape diamond designs are chosen for refinement, individuality, and soft striking presence.

Emerald Cut Diamond

The emerald cut diamond is defined by its elongated rectangular shape, bevelled corners, and elegant step-cut facets. Unlike brilliant cuts, it creates broad flashes of light rather than intense sparkle, giving the stone a composed, mirror-like appearance.

Clarity and proportion are especially important in an emerald cut. Its open facet structure reveals the depth of the diamond, while the length-to-width ratio determines whether the stone feels classic, elongated, or more architectural on the hand.

At SARATTI, emerald cut diamond designs are chosen for precision, refinement, and quiet luxury.

Oval Cut Diamond

The oval diamond is a refined brilliant cut, admired for its elongated outline and graceful return of light. Typically cut with 57 or 58 facets, it offers the brilliance of a round diamond with a more lengthened, elegant silhouette.

Its beauty depends on balance and proportion. The curves should be even, the outline symmetrical, and the length-to-width ratio carefully considered to create a flattering presence on the hand without losing brilliance.

At SARATTI, oval diamond designs are chosen for their luminosity, poise, and timeless sophistication.

Other Diamond Shapes

Cushion, heart and marquise diamonds each offer a distinctive expression of shape, proportion and light. A cushion cut is admired for its softly rounded corners and romantic, pillow-like outline; a heart shape requires precise symmetry through the cleft, lobes and point; while a marquise diamond creates an elongated, sculptural silhouette with graceful brilliance across the hand. At SARATTI, each of these shapes is considered for balance, refinement and how naturally it belongs within the final design.

Heart Cut Diamond

The heart shape diamond is one of the most symbolic diamond cuts, recognised for its romantic outline and precise symmetry. Usually based on a brilliant-cut facet arrangement, it is designed to offer light and sparkle while holding a clearly defined heart silhouette.

Its beauty depends on accuracy. The cleft should be distinct, the lobes evenly rounded, and the point centred to create balance across the entire stone. When cut with precision, a heart shape diamond feels expressive without losing refinement.

At SARATTI, heart shape diamond designs are chosen for meaning, proportion, and elegant sentiment.