Step cuts don’t forgive — every facet is a flat mirror running the length of the stone, and any imperfection shows up as a straight line rather than a scattered flash. This one has nothing to hide. Light travels the full corridor of the pavilion and returns clean, a soft champagne-olive tone that stays even from end to end. At 1.64 carats it has real presence on the finger, elongated and architectural — the kind of shape that reads as deliberate rather than accidental. Cut in the long baguette style Russian lapidaries have favored for this material for generations, and reported by GFCO as untreated natural corundum from Sutara.
