Frequently Asked Questions

Are laboratory-created diamonds real diamonds?

The General Electric Company was the first to grow a diamond in 1956. That was a small industrial-quality gemstone. It took 15 years until the company had succeeded in growing a gem-quality one-carat diamond by 1971. The history of grown diamonds may be traced from that date.

Laboratory created diamonds share the same properties with natural diamonds except for their age: they are hardly more than a few years old. Laboratory created gem quality diamonds are stunning, just as their natural counterpart, but they are produced by machine not the Earth.

Every diamond made in a laboratory is unique, and creation of each of them is mystical as no one is quite the same as the other. Laboratory created diamonds share the identical optical, chemical, and physical properties of natural diamonds.

Laboratory created diamonds are certificated just like natural diamonds by the leading gemological authorities (i.e.: GIA, EGL, IGI).

What gemological laboratories appraise diamonds?

Diamond certificates are issued by independent gemological laboratories. There are several grading laboratories, the most prominent being: the International Gemological Institute (IGI); the Gemological Institute of America (GIA); the American Gem Society (AGS); the European Gemological Laboratories (EGL), Birmingham Assay Office's AnchorCert, HRD Laboratory (Hoge Raad voor Diamant) , GemEx Systems and a number of others.

Right name for these type of diamonds?

Cultured, lab-grown, laboratory created man-made, cultivated diamond? All these terms are correct terminology for laboratory grown diamonds as they are grown in a laboratory in a prepared medium of temperature and pressure.