This page gathers every gemstone in our collection cut in the emerald cut — a rectangular step cut with truncated corners, built from long parallel facets rather than the triangular and kite-shaped facets of a brilliant. Instead of scintillation, the step cut produces broad flashes of light and dark that gemmologists describe as a hall of mirrors. It is an architectural cut, valued for the calm, open window it creates onto a stone's body colour.
Here you will find aquamarine, tanzanite, and tourmaline in green, pink and bi-colour forms. These varieties suit the cut for a reason: the large flat table and elongated outline draw colour along the length of the stone, which flatters the cool blues of aquamarine and the violet-blue of tanzanite, and allows a bi-colour tourmaline's zoning to be read clearly across the face.
When comparing stones here, weigh three things. First, clarity — the open table shows inclusions more readily than a brilliant cut. Second, length-to-width ratio, which determines whether the stone reads elegant and slender or broad and squared. Third, depth of colour, as the step cut neither lightens nor deepens a colour but presents it honestly.
