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Half round brilliant, half marquise, entirely its own. The pear is the teardrop of the diamond world: a soft, rounded belly sweeping to a single fine point, elongating the hand while keeping a brilliant's fire. It asks for one V-prong, one video, and a wearer who likes being asked about her ring.
The pear is a hybrid with a five hundred year pedigree: one end borrows the round brilliant's full curve, the other tapers to the marquise's single point, and brilliant faceting fills the teardrop between them. The lineage runs to Flemish cutter Lodewyk van Berquem, credited with the shape in fifteenth century Bruges, which makes the pear one of the oldest deliberate designs in diamonds and still one of the most distinctive.
On the hand it does two jobs at once. Worn point toward the fingertip, the traditional orientation, it draws the eye along the finger and lengthens the hand the way a marquise does, while the rounded belly keeps the generous, familiar sparkle of a round. The asymmetry is the appeal: a pear never reads as a default choice, and its spread per carat sits near the top of the board.
Its checklist is short and inherited from both parents. From the marquise side: one point that must live under a V-prong, and wings that must curve evenly. From the round side: almost nothing, the brilliant faceting forgives clarity and color generously. The one test that belongs to every elongated brilliant, the bow-tie, is judged on video and nowhere else.
| Facets | Typically 57 to 58, brilliant style |
| Cut grading | No formal lab cut grade, evaluate by eye |
| Face-up size | Generous spread, just behind the marquise |
| Length to width | 1.45 to 1.75 is the classic range |
| Relative price | Meaningfully below round per carat |
| Watch for | The bow-tie, wing symmetry, point protection |
The pear spreads nearly as well as the marquise and elongates the finger almost as much, while keeping a rounded end that reads soft rather than sharp. For buyers who want visible size and length without the navette's full drama, the teardrop is the natural landing.
| Carat Weight | Typical Measurements | How It Wears |
|---|---|---|
| 0.75 ct | 7.7 x 5.2 mm | A delicate teardrop with real presence |
| 1.00 ct | 8.6 x 5.8 mm | The classic pear, graceful and unmistakable |
| 1.50 ct | 9.8 x 6.6 mm | A confident sweep along the finger |
| 2.00 ct | 10.8 x 7.3 mm | Commanding length with a soft shoulder |
| 3.00 ct | 12.4 x 8.4 mm | A statement drop few shapes can echo |
Measurements are typical for well proportioned stones. Individual diamonds vary with their cutting.
The pear inherits the brilliant's forgiveness and the marquise's checklist, so the certificate starts the work and the video finishes it. Here is where your attention belongs.
Like every elongated brilliant, the pear can carry a dark band where its long facets meet, strongest across the belly. On video a fine pear shows a soft shadow that travels as the stone moves; a poor one wears a fixed dark stripe. No certificate line reports it.
Fold the stone in half in your mind along its length: the two sides should mirror exactly, the point should land on the center line, and the wings, the curves between belly and point, should arc evenly. Flat wings starve the outline; bulged wings make it heavy. Symmetry is the pear's whole elegance.
The single tip concentrates the stone's vulnerability and its color. It lives under a V-prong or shrouded claw for life, no exceptions, and color one thought higher than a round in the same metal keeps the point as white as the belly.
Every stone we recommend is scored by ROSI™, our gemological intelligence, built by our gemologists, and verified by a human eye before it reaches you. Request a ROSI™ Score Report on any diamond you are considering, ours or anyone else’s.
Found a pear you are considering, here or anywhere else? Send the GIA or IGI certificate number and our gemological team returns its ROSI™ Score and a read of where it sits in the current market. Complimentary, within minutes.
Score a DiamondWhere stones of the same exact specifications are trading on the open market right now. You get a straight answer, even when the diamond is not ours.
The pear's setting has two jobs: guard the point and choose the mood. These three directions cover most of what our clients choose, each made to order around your exact stone.
Two prongs on each shoulder and a V-prong at the point. The classic pear mount, secure where it must be and invisible everywhere else, worn point to the fingertip.
Pavé tracing the teardrop outline, point and all. Adds visible size, softens the silhouette, and armors the tip inside the frame, the pear's most popular composition.
The full outline wrapped in a fine rim of metal. Modern, low, and the most protective setting a pear can wear, a favorite for hands that work.
The pear gives you the marquise's length with the round's forgiveness, priced below both of its parents. Its only demands are symmetry you can see and a prong you must insist on.
We will make the case plainly: per carat, the pear is one of the best values in brilliant diamonds, spreading nearly like a marquise, forgiving grades nearly like a round, and pricing below the round because demand always chases the classic first. Its costs are a short list. The bow-tie must be judged on video of the exact stone. The wings must curve evenly, because a lopsided pear can never be un-seen. The point must live under a V-prong from the first day. And the wearer should like asymmetry, because the teardrop is a statement, not a default. Meet those terms and the pear delivers elegance the symmetric shapes cannot reach; a buyer who wants the length without the point should hear the honest alternative, the oval, and we will say which suits the hand in front of us.
We are a Los Angeles fine jewelry atelier with family roots in the diamond trade going back to 1967. That history buys you four things you will not find together anywhere else.
Send us the certificate of a stone we do not sell and we will still score it. No other jeweler will grade a competitor’s diamond for you and tell you if it is the better buy.
Every ROSI™ report shows where stones of identical specifications are trading right now, drawn from live market data. You see the range before you see our price.
Every score is verified by our gemological team before it reaches you, and John Anderson, our Lead Gemologist, is one phone call away for the questions a report cannot answer.
Every setting leaves our Los Angeles atelier built around your exact diamond, at one confident price, with 40 day returns and 60 day complimentary resizing behind it.
Our gemologists buy inside a written window, and decline outside it. These are those numbers, published in full, so you can hold any pear to the same standard we do, including one you are considering somewhere else.
A pear lives or dies on the point. We reject any pear with a chipped or abraded tip, and we look for shoulders that curve evenly into the point rather than bulging or flattening.
Each scale shows the measurement range. Gold marks the RockHer Ideal window.
| Length to width ratio | 1.45 to 1.65 |
|---|---|
| Depth | 60% to 66% |
| Table | 54% to 65% |
| Girdle | Thin to thick |
| Polish | Very Good or better |
| Symmetry | Good or better |
| Culet | None |
Every diamond in our search carries these measurements on its report. In the filter panel, under RockHer’s Best, switch on Ideal Cut and the results narrow to the window above. Super Ideal Cut narrows them further still, to a tighter standard our gemologists hold diamond by diamond rather than publish as a range.
Nothing is hidden behind the switch. It applies the same numbers printed on this page.
Open the Pear diamond searchThe panel as it appears in the diamond search, with Ideal Cut switched on.
Proportion is the first filter, not the last. A pear can sit inside every range above and still be one we will not sell. These findings end a purchase in our office whatever the certificate says, and every diamond scored by ROSI™ is read against them by a gemologist before it is offered.
A certificate tells you what was measured. It does not tell you what was rejected.
Two pear diamonds can carry the same carat, color, clarity, and grading laboratory, and one of them will never reach a client of ours. That gap is the work: reading the plot, the finish, and the face-up appearance against a written standard rather than against a price.
John Anderson, our Lead Gemologist, reviews pears with clients every day. Send him the certificate of any stone you are considering and he will tell you what the paper says and what it leaves out. The consultation is complimentary and there is no obligation.
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