LAB GROWN DIAMOND JEWELRY

Real. A lab grown diamond is carbon in the same crystal as a mined one, graded on the same scales, and nobody at our bench can tell the two apart by eye or by loupe. Fake would mean a different material copying the look, cubic zirconia or moissanite. Neither is on this page. Everything here is a diamond. Our lab grown diamonds guide has the physics if you want it.

Bridal sets, then earrings. That is why they are the first two shelves on this page: the order of the sections here is our own order data, not a guess about what you want to see. Engagement rings are the widest shelf at 193 designs, but a set that arrives as a matched pair outsells them, and a pair of studs is the piece people buy for themselves.

For what you wear, yes. The middle of this shelf sits at $1,813.99, and at that number a grown stone comes in bigger than a mined one does. For resale, no. Grown prices keep falling as more capacity comes online, so buy the piece for the finger and not for the vault. That's what natural is for, and we sell that too.

I can't speak for every store, so here is our arithmetic instead. Prices on this page range as low as $173.99, the whole shelf sits 60% to 83% below list, and there is no distributor and no showroom standing between the bench and you. We've cast, set and polished our own pieces in our own US factory since 2001. The cheap end is easy to check for yourself: 84 lab grown pieces under $1,000.

It doesn't have one. Hardness 10 is hardness 10, and the stone won't cloud, fade or soften however long you wear it. What wears is the metal around it. Prongs thin out after years of daily wear, and a shank goes flat where it meets a desk. That's the part we look after, and it's what the Lifetime Limited Labor Warranty is there for.