The Hayek Cut for Gemstones

Gemstone Recommendations

To the right, this beauty has a Barion-style pavilion, which accounts for its great brilliance.

In rough with light to medium colors, the Hayek cut will have outstanding optical performance. However, I would caution against using this design for darker rough material.

This is a fairly simple design to facet. Now that you have it in your repertoire, you should find multiple occasions to cut it for your customers.

Diagrams

Hayek Cut Instructions

• Angles for R.I. = 1.56
• 45 facets + 4 facets on girdle = 49
• 96 index
• L/W = 1.500 T/W = 1.066 T/L = 0.710
• P/W = 0.807 C/W = 0.110
• H/W = (P+C)/W+0.02 = 0.937
• P/H = 0.862 C/H = 0.117
• Vol./W^3 = 0.628

Pavilion

Crown