Famous Diamond Cutter – Antwerp
By sandra. Filed in Antwerp, Belgium, Europe, Flanders, Museum |
Antwerps’s diamond cutters are world famous. Marcel Tolkowsky (an engineer by profession but from a family 
of diamond cutters) is celebrated as the father of the round brilliant diamond cut (called the American Standard, American Ideal Cut, Tolkowsky cut or Tolkowsky Brilliant), using an optimal number of facets to achieve maximum brilliance.
He set the diamond cutting benchmark in North America and his technique is still used today. In 1919 he derived it from mathematical calculations that considered both brilliance and fire of the stone. Learn this and more sparkling info at the Diamond Museum ( www.awdc.be/diamond-museum-province-antwerp ) in Antwerp, Belgium