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0.36 carats, emerald cut, GIA certified D colour and VVS1 clarity, with 0.12 carat of pavé, in 18K white gold.
With an emerald cut, the number that decides how the stone looks is not on the front page of the report. It is the length-to-width ratio, and you calculate it yourself from the measurements line.
Around 1.30 an emerald cut reads almost square, compact and architectural, closer in spirit to an Asscher. Around 1.45 to 1.55 is the classic proportion most people picture when they hear the name — balanced, elongated enough to lengthen the finger, wide enough to show the step facets properly. Past 1.60 the stone becomes distinctly narrow, dramatic on a long hand and unforgiving on a short one.
None of those is a better ratio. They are different rings, and the choice deserves to be made deliberately rather than discovered on arrival, because it is the single variable that changes an emerald cut’s character most.
D colour and VVS1 clarity: the grades a step cut’s open table demands, since there is nothing in the faceting to hide behind.
The same specification, lighter: 0.30 ct D VVS1. Half a carat, plain: 0.50 ct F VS1.
