The Caelora Marquise Cut Double Prong Solitaire Ring

Elegant Marquise Cut Diamond Ring with Enhanced Double Prong Solitaire Setting

The Caelora uses double prongs with marquise cuts, and honestly these stones need all the help they can get. Those sharp points chip if you look at them wrong, and I've seen too many marquise diamonds with damaged tips because someone thought a regular three-prong would be fine.

Marquise shapes make your finger look longer and the diamond appear bigger than it weighs. But getting a good one is tricky. The points have to line up perfectly or it looks off-center. And don't get me started on bow tie effects - some marquise stones have these dark shadows right across the middle that just kill the whole look.

With regular settings, you've got one prong at each point and two on the sides. Fine until that point prong gets loose or bent. Then your diamond's basically secured by hope and the side prongs. Double prongs give you backup right where you need it most.

They say some French king designed this cut for his mistress centuries ago. Don't know if that's true, but marquise definitely has this romantic vintage thing going. They come and go style-wise. Right now they're popular again, probably because everyone's tired of the same old round and princess cuts.

Quality matters more with marquise than almost any other cut. Bad proportions look really bad. Wonky points are obvious. We reject a lot of marquise stones because they don't make the grade for solitaire settings where there's nowhere to hide flaws.