Cohen's the Vinci Diamond Cut Reflects Divine Proportion

Cohens the Vinci Diamond Cut Reflects Divine Proportion
Diamond designer Shlomo Cohen, who in 1982 was credited with developing the Princess Cut, has created and patented "The Vinci Diamond," a 62-facet, pentacle cut, which incorporates the precise ratios of the Divine Proportion.

The idea behind Divine Proportion or the Golden Ratio is based upon the relationship of three lines of which the longest is 1.618 times the length of second longest, which in turn is 1.618 times the length of the shortest line.

The combinations of the three are the basis for everything that is perfectly proportional. The ratio is considered divine because it is repeated over and over in nature.

"I have been studying the geometric possibilities offered by the Golden Ratio since 2001, which is before I ever heard of Dan Brown or The Da Vinci Code," Cohen said.

"Interestingly, like Dan Brown, I was inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's study of the human body, the Vitruvian Man, and discovered that the artist had adopted the Golden Ratio to emphasize the understanding that symmetry denotes beauty," he said.

Cohen created The Vinci Diamond with the assumption that the stone would be "aesthetically more pleasing if it conforms to the ratios of the Golden Ratio."

The design concept is also widely used in art and architecture.

But for Cohen the design of the 62-facet The Vinci Diamond presented a