This selection gathers the heart-shaped gemstones currently in our collection. The heart is a modified brilliant outline: a cleft at the crown, two rounded lobes and a single point at the base. It demands more from a cutter than almost any other silhouette, since the eye reads asymmetry in a heart immediately — the lobes must match, the cleft must be crisp and well defined, and the two halves must mirror one another across the central axis.
The varieties represented here span a broad colour range. Mozambique Ruby and Rubellite Tourmaline offer warm reds and pinkish reds; Spessartite Garnet brings orange to mandarin tones; Blue Zircon contributes a cool, highly dispersive blue; and Rainbow Moonstone provides a soft translucence with billowing adularescence rather than facet brilliance.
When choosing between them, weigh length-to-width ratio — broader hearts read more clearly as the shape, narrower ones sit more discreetly in a setting — alongside depth, tone saturation and how the cleft has been handled. Consider also that the point and the cleft are the most exposed parts of the stone and benefit from protective mounting.
