What is a Princess Cut Diamond?
The Princess Cut Diamond is a relatively new way to cut a diamond. It was first developed in 1964 as a way to provide a square diamond cut with facets equal to the round diamond cut known as a brilliant cut. Essentially it is a square version of a round brilliant. Its invention is credited to M. Weistreich, a Belgian diamond cutter also responsible for the development of the King Diamond Cut.
The Princess Cut Diamond is a relatively new way to cut a diamond. It was first developed in 1964 as a way to provide a square diamond cut with facets equal to the round diamond cut known as a brilliant cut. Essentially it is a square version of a round brilliant. Its invention is credited to M. Weistreich, a Belgian diamond cutter also responsible for the development of the King Diamond Cut. Prior to the development of the Princess Cut Diamond, square cuts of diamonds tended not to have multiple facets. These were called emerald cuts and they failed to take advantage of the additional sparkle that can be added when a diamond has numerous facets. Hence emerald cut diamonds were not preferable since they lacked the sparkly nature of round cuts.
