To all the dealers trashing Lab Diamonds

[purplesilk]

@Chelsea Palmer: you explained your point of view with multiple posts.
As you stated, you're not understanding the love for natural diamonds: not understanding is a limit, not a validation...you don't hold the truth and you're not smarter, it's just your opinion.
You traded your 1.5 ct natural diamond for a 2 ct lab diamond : it's fine as long as your happy with it, but please stop trashing people who have a different point of view.

I'm sure you're going to buy lab diamonds for your eternity bands, so please ask the moderator to move your thread to the appropriate forum -Lab Diamonds- neither your thread nor you belong to the RockyTalky forum.

C

Thread 'What size eternity band to go with my 2-carat diamond?'

Sunday at 9:09 AM

Hello, and thank you for reading my post. This is my 2-carat solitaire. I’m interested in two matching eternity, bands (or one double-row eternity band) that would be the same width as the shank of my engagement ring. I’m not even sure if “shank” is the right word. I’m referring to the band on my engagement ring. I want two bands because I don’t think one is going to give me the bling effect I want. But I don’t want the eternity bands to be significantly wider than the band on my engagement ring. I hope I was somewhat clear. I appreciate your input.

• Chelsea Palmer
• Replies: 15
• Forum: RockyTalky (Diamond Discussion)

 

[purplesilk]

Exactly. I certainly don’t think I’m smarter than anybody. I’m just trying to understand the logic. I don’t love lab diamonds. I love diamonds, period. So people prefer earth-mined diamonds because after they form, which,from what I understand takes a couple of weeks, it takes billions of years for them to become mineable? And that’s why people prefer a diamond from the Earth? That’s the reason?

Mass produced vs unique.

 

[Roselina]

Exactly. I certainly don’t think I’m smarter than anybody. I’m just trying to understand the logic. I don’t love lab diamonds. I love diamonds, period. So people prefer earth-mined diamonds because after they form, which,from what I understand takes a couple of weeks, it takes billions of years for them to become mineable? And that’s why people prefer a diamond from the Earth? That’s the reason?

For me it is not. It's that fact that our earth is capable of forming something like that. It's not so much the time factor. It's rather the nature factor. Futhermore I am a museums professional. I like things with history. The older the better. So I prefer vintage jewellery compared to new jewellery. I love both but prefer the first.

 

[Chelsea Palmer]

You said lab-grown diamonds are a good alternative. A good alternative to what? Perhaps cubic zirconia could be a good alternative, presumably to diamonds, but what is a lab grown diamond a good alternative for?

I own both EGD and LGD and love them both. I view LGD as the vehicle to try new and more creative things - I just got some kite cut studs for example. The reduced cost of the material makes it easier to take risks with interesting cuts and pieces.

My engagement ring, round studs & eternity band are EGD and the center is a vintage family stone which is fun. I think there is room for both and no reason to be put off by it, at least on the consumer side.

I do think it’s funny when I read comments like “Well, I think LGD are costume jewelry,” and “I don’t think their stones are as good as mine” or “only poor and low class people buy LGD” (paraphrased) by people who then wonder why the targets of their comments find them to be annoying snobs. Saying these sorts of things is just rude, in the same way as saying “Guess you support child slavery, huh?” to someone who buys an EGD is rude. Not everything that is thought needs to be said.

I don’t buy LGD because I can’t afford EGD. I buy them because I have other goals that I want to put my $ toward (and even my Raman laser can’t see them as different).

There is a part of me that wonders if there is some classist resentment happening as one of the signals of wealth has changed. “How will someone know I am upper class and better than them now that everyone has a diamond as big as mine?”

Your last paragraph nailed it perfectly. And the folks who consider lab grown diamonds to be costume jewelry are simply not understanding that a diamond is a diamond. Costume jewelry would be cubic zirconia. Cubic zirconia is not a diamond. Rhinestones are not diamonds. Diamonds are diamonds.