The House of Louis Vuitton (LV) patented its own proprietary diamond cut, called the Star cut. The LV Star diamond cut was inspired by the iconic Louis Vuitton Monogram flower.
The Louis Vuitton Star diamond cut invention is recited in a family of patents, that includes the US utility patent US2017303647 (A1), titled Cut gem and article comprising such a gem. The patent was granted on October 26, 2017, to Eric Hamers, the French inventor. The patent application was filed by Louis Vuitton Malletiers, in France.
The invention seeks to surpass the brilliance of Princess-cut diamonds by promoting greater light reflection, thereby increasing diamond brilliance. For this purpose, the Louis Vuitton Star-cut diamond has a crown with twenty-four facets, a pavilion with thirty-two facets, and four girdle sides that are identical, each with the distinctive form of an arc of a circle.
Below, an LV diamond solitaire ring, centered with a Monogram Star-cut diamond, and the Star-cut patent Figure 2, showing a bottom view of the LV Star-cut diamond. The scope of the invention extends to gems other than diamonds.
The Abstract of the invention is included below:
The invention relates to a cut gem comprising a girdle (3) having four girdle sides (2) and four girdle corners (1), a table (4) realized by a flat facet, a crown (7) which extends between the table (4) and the girdle (3), in a first direction (H), and a pavilion (13) which extends in a second direction (B), opposite to said first direction (H), between said girdle (3) and a tip of the pavilion (14). The gem is noteworthy in that the crown (7) has 24 facets, the pavilion (13) has 32 facets and in that the four girdle sides (2) are identical in the form of an arc of a circle, the concavity of which is oriented towards the outside of the gem. [Abstract US2017303647 (A1)]
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