Princess Solitaire Studs 14k Gold Lab Grown Diamond

Four corners. No apology.

The princess cut is what happens when a diamond decides to have edges. One sharp-cornered square in each ear, held on three prongs so the geometry stays visible from every side, nothing rounded off and nothing softened. It reads modern in a way the round brilliant never quite manages. If your closet leans toward clean lines and structure, this is the stud that agrees with you.

✦ The Princess Cut

Princess is a brilliant cut wearing a square outline. It keeps the internal facet architecture that makes a round sparkle, then crops it into a hard-edged square, so you get real fire and real geometry in the same stone. The light comes back differently: instead of spreading evenly, it breaks and gathers along the corners in bright angular flashes. On the ear the effect is a small, crisp square that catches attention precisely because it is not the shape anyone expects a diamond earring to be.

The corners are the entire personality of the cut and also the part that needs respect, since a point is the most exposed place on any stone. Three prongs sit where they shield rather than obscure. One more thing worth knowing: cutting a princess wastes far less of the original crystal than cutting a round does, which is part of why the shape has always delivered so much visible stone for the money.

• Stone: Princess-cut lab-grown diamond, square outline with sharp corners
• Clarity: VS+, eye-clean
• Color: EF+, near-colorless and bright white
• Cut: Excellent
• Carat weight: 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 ctw
• Setting: Three-prong martini, positioned to protect the corners while leaving the edges open to light

✦ Metal & Construction

• Solid 14k gold throughout, in yellow or white. Not plated, not filled, not vermeil.
• The martini basket tapers to a point beneath the stone, three prongs and almost no metal, so the square outline stays unbroken when you look at it head on.
• Prong placement is the technical work in a square stone. Each one wraps a corner, which is the strongest way to hold a princess and the reason ours sit flush rather than perched.
• Push backs on both posts. Nothing to unscrew, nothing to lose down a drain.
• Built for your order in your chosen metal and carat.

✦ How to Wear It

A princess wants space around it. It is the only shape in this family with straight lines, and straight lines lose their effect in a crowded ear. If you stack, stack with geometry: a baguette huggie or a plain gold bar above it will echo the angles instead of arguing with them. Curves and clusters do the opposite.

Set the flat bottom edge parallel to your jawline rather than tilted, and check it in a mirror occasionally, because a square is the one shape where a few degrees off reads as crooked. White gold is the sharper choice here, since the metal disappears and leaves you with four clean corners. Yellow gold warms the square and makes it feel less severe, which is worth considering at 3ct and above.

✦ Why Lab-Grown Diamonds

• Chemically and optically identical to mined diamonds. Same carbon lattice, same 10 on the Mohs scale, same fire.
• Graded against the same 4Cs by the same gemological standards, which is how we can hold every stone to EF colour and VS clarity.
• Traceable origin. You know exactly where each diamond came from.
• Meaningfully better value, so the carat weight you actually wanted is the one you can buy.

✦ Perfect For

• The woman with a defined personal uniform who wants jewelry that matches its discipline.
• Rooms where you are the most senior person present.
• Architecture, design, law, anything where precision is the point of the job.
• Sharp tailoring. A princess stud and a good shoulder seam belong together.
• Marking the year the business finally worked, without a single word about it.

✦ Care & Longevity

• Solid 14k gold will not tarnish or fade. It only needs cleaning.
• Warm water, mild soap, soft toothbrush. Pay attention to the four corners, where residue collects and the flash goes flat first.
• Take them out before you sleep. Corners catch on fabric, and a stud that gets tugged all night is a stud with a loosening back.
• Do not shower or swim in them. Chlorine attacks the alloys in gold over time.
• In last, out first: after perfume, hairspray and sunscreen, before makeup remover.
• Store them in the AVRA box rather than loose in a dish.

✦ Made to Order

Every pair is built for your order, with the two stones matched for colour, outline and corner symmetry before setting. Made to order, ships in 2–5 weeks, between Nov 10 and Dec 1.

• Returns accepted within 20 business days of delivery for store credit or exchange, unless stated otherwise under product.