These Unusual, Rare-Cut Diamond Engagement Rings Just Landed at Dover Street Market

The ring is relatively simple-gold band, solitaire diamond, bezel setting-but the diamond is shaped like, well, a diamond Zwart spent over a year looking for the diamond to create her engagement ring-and it makes such a graphic, uncluttered statement that she's become synonymous with it, and gets DMs and emails about it daily If you're in the market for something similar, you can work with Zwart to design a nearly identical ring-but shield cuts aren't the only rare diamonds she works with.

The rings definitely look like something a DSM girl might be into-i.e., a girl who loves fashion, has an exacting eye, and likely doesn't fantasize about gobstopper diamonds on Fifth Avenue The selection of Azlee rings you'll find in DSM feature four types of diamonds: a shield cut, a hexagon diamond, a kite diamond, and a double-tipped shield diamond Perhaps unsurprisingly, rare-cut diamonds aren't easy to set: Each ring is built "From the ground up," so even the setting is designed specifically around the diamond.

"Every single setting is one-of-a-kind-you can't just take an existing one and make the stone fit." Her rare-cut diamonds are also full-cut-meaning they have dozens of tiny facets-which are harder to source from collectors than rose-cut diamonds, which are less sparkly. . Source