Segal's Jewellers and Laboratory Grown Diamonds

Laboratory Grown Diamonds

Laboratory Grown Diamonds - we believe will never replace the diamonds that have been on this planet for billions of years - a diamond by nature can only be called a diamond if it is over 3.5 billion years old (wow).  All diamonds that have been dated so far were formed even before the dinosaurs went extinct, that's pretty impressive.  The oldest dated examples were forming prior to oxygen in the earths atmosphere.

Laboratory grown diamonds, often referred to as cultivated diamonds, man made diamonds, or even synthetic diamonds are created in a laboratory setting that emulates the natural process of a diamond's growth - only, taking a lot less time (say, 3 billion years less, give or take).

The process of growing diamonds is one of the most precise and difficult manufacturing techniques that humans have ever achieved.  To grow a gemstone quality diamond larger than one carat has taken man almost 60 years of research and development.

Laboratory diamonds can be grown in two ways.  The first is called HPHT High Pressuer High Temperature and the second is called CVD Chemical Vapor Deposition.  

So why buy Laboratory Created Diamonds - they are cheaper! You can get a bigger diamond for your money! Can you tell the difference, no ! and only you will know! We remember when cubic zirconia's and moisenites came on the market every thought they would threaten the diamond and they didn't.  Only time will tell, buy diamonds have been around for billions of years and we are sure they will be around for billions of years to come.