Maison Serti
Journal
Notes from the bench: what we bought, how it was cut, and why a stone behaves the way it does once it is set.
- Entries5
- Written atThe bench
- SubjectsRough, cut, setting
Where the light goes when a pavilion is cut shallow
A diamond makes no light of its own. Everything you are paying for is a journey in and back out again, and there is…
What the marks inside the shank actually promise
A hallmark is one of the oldest forms of consumer protection in Europe. It is also narrower than almost everybody assumes.
The stone comes before the drawing
A design made around a stone that does not exist yet is a drawing. Here is what happens in the weeks before one.
Tolkowsky, 1919, and what the arithmetic left out
A twenty-year-old engineering student wrote down the proportions the whole trade still quotes. He also wrote down his assumptions, which the trade quotes less…
Living with a setting
Diamond is the hardest thing you own and it is not the toughest. What that distinction means for a ring worn every day.