Champagne's deeper register- burnt amber, russet, and the brown-red of a bottle held against a lamp. Natural body color formed in the crystal, untreated and unaltered. Saturation this deep changes what the cut has to do: facets that would read as brilliance in a colorless stone read as movement here.

The bridge between hand cutting and the modern round. A circular outline, a small table, a high crown, and a culet left open at the base. It returns light in broad, slow flashes rather than fine glitter. Every Old European Cut we sell is cut in our own Surat facility, to period proportions, by craftsmen who know what the modern round gave up to gain symmetry.