The Cabochons and Gems are very important in the design of jewelry, are often intended to be the centerpiece of many designs, pieces that are among many others, were chosen because possess special characteristics of brightness, color, grain shape , size and transparency, qualities that made them stand out among the others to be the main pieces in a jewelry design.

Previously, the majority of gemstones and semi-precious stones were used with its natural look or on its surface were polished with the aim to highlight the characteristics and beauty of the stone, and thus molded and rounded to adopt a curved convex shape called CABOCHON.

Currently, the cabuchon style carving is only used in stones with little or no transparency, excessive presence of inclusions in sapphires, rubies, Emeralds and relatively opaque stones, or in which gems carving cabujón will get their best qualities as what is the vein stripesr in stones as malachite, agate and jasper, the color in turquoise and Lapislázulis, insect inclusions in the amber or very special inner shines in the case of ruby and rafiro star, and iridescent colorations in opals and some other stones like Labradorite.