Baguette Setting

The baguette setting is specially designed to fix baguette-cut gemstones to the respective piece of jewellery and to ensure a secure fit, which nevertheless allows the gemstone to be viewed as unimpaired as possible. In order to explain the baguette setting, the baguette cut must first be explained. This special way of cutting a gemstone gets its name from the French word "bague", which means stick. In the diminutive it becomes baguette - chopsticks. Particularly small stones are often cut in this way, in an exact rectangular arrangement, when looking at the stone from above. The length is usually double or triple the width and the borders of the facets are parallel to the outer edges. The baguette cut is a restrained way in which gemstones can be worked. The baguette setting is now a rectangular shape that encompasses the baguette gemstone and holds it to the piece of jewellery. There are different ways to fix the stone in place. The baguette setting can be a rubbed-in setting, in which the gemstone is inserted into the piece of jewellery and then the surrounding material is pressed against it, or the baguette gemstone is attached to the jewellery using claws.