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What are the most common gem setting styles in jewellery? From the popular prong to the bezel, flush, pavé methods, and the Tiffany setting seen on most diamond engagement rings – the ancient art explained

• The setting created by Tiffany & Co. founder Charles Lewis Tiffany is a classic, but pavé is one of the most difficult methods, often used by Graff and Van Cleef & Arpels
• There’s also the bead, burnish, rose head, buttercup, halo, cluster and bar settings – but what does the world’s largest diamond, the 530.2 carat Cullinan I in the British Crown Jewels, use?