Many people choose unique diamond shapes for their jewellery to add personality and individuality. The elegant Asscher cut engagement rings are a fancy style that is rapidly gaining popularity as a sophisticated alternative to the more traditional choices.
An Asscher stone is cut with a series of many parallel steps, creating a hall-of-mirrors effect when looking deeply into the stone. These steps create more internal refraction and diamond fire than typical step cut stones, such as the elongated emerald cut or the radiant, which has only slightly trimmed corners set in engagement rings.
The Asscher diamond cut has been exclusively patented. Every genuine Asscher diamond has the Asscher family insignia and a unique identification number. These marks are only visible under high magnification, but a jeweller should be able to show them to prospective buyers to verify the diamond’s authenticity.
Vintage Asscher diamonds are popular in art deco engagement rings. The style was popular in the 1920s, but the production facility closed in 1930 owing to difficult times during the worldwide Great Depression. They reopened in 1945 and continued designing Asscher cut rings for engaged couples and other elegant jewellery
In 2001, the Asscher diamond was redesigned to make it more difficult for counterfeit cuts to be distributed. Modern stones have slightly smaller corners and a larger central table (the flat top of a cut diamond). Sixteen additional facets were added to increase the cut’s sparkle, and modern Asschers have a total of 74 facets per finished stone. A deep cutlet at the base of both vintage and modern Asschers accentuates the depth of the stone by drawing the eye into the gem with startling clarity.
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