Does a cut with more facets mean a more beautiful diamond?
People are led to believe that more facets equal more sparkle. Well, it’s not true. There is no doubt that the job of diamond facets is to capture the maximum light and bounce it from facet to facet, then reflect it back to your eye as brilliantly as possible. But, the most important factor is the precision of the cutting and placing of facets. If the faceting pattern in not cut with perfect symmetry, then light is lost. The quality of the diamond itself its color, clarity and cut will have much more bearing on the beauty of the stone than the number of facets it has.
