Lab grown diamonds

[Anonymous]

I love mine!

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Anonymous wrote:I know two millennial young women that are using the natural diamonds inherited from their fiance's grandmothers in their engagement rings. I also received my diamond from my husband's grandmother and would gladly pass mine along to a young relative who is interested. Reset, cleaned and polished to shine for another three or four decades!

Family heirlooms are always special and you can’t put a price on that. I don’t think anyone is suggesting people toss the diamonds that they have, we’re just saying be aware that the supply of lab diamonds will impact the price and status of mined diamonds.

My point was that you can have a vintage diamond (mined) and have it reset and cleaned/polished rather than a lab-grown. You can inherit or purchase that gem.

I don't think we have a disagreement. I cherish my family pieces and while I have no need of more, I enjoy browsing vintage and antique jewelry. That doesn't change the facts about lab diamonds and mined diamonds.

I enjoy that, too.

[Anonymous]

My DCs do not want my jewelry or sterling silver so I will probably sell it when I move to assisted living so I won't have to worry about it. Where is the best place to sell real gemstone jewelry, gold and silver?

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Anonymous wrote:Very low resale value but if you don’t care about that buy them. Nobody will be able to tell visually. You need a tester to know the difference. If you want something investment worthy look for natural untreated colored stones with GIA or AGL certifications.

Diamonds are not an investment. They do not appreciate and you will not get back anything near what you paid a jeweler.

All jewelry has a very low resale value. Only someone bad with money would buy gems/jewelry as an investment.

Natural rare colored diamonds and quality untreated colored stones went up in value. A natural pearl necklace my mother purchased in 1990 for $2500 I just sold for $12000 at auction. Even if you paid double retail on gold if you held it long enough you’ve made money.

If you invested $2,500 in S&P500 in 1990, it would worth now $98,296.52. That is a bad investment if it turns only $12,000.

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Anonymous wrote:Very low resale value but if you don’t care about that buy them. Nobody will be able to tell visually. You need a tester to know the difference. If you want something investment worthy look for natural untreated colored stones with GIA or AGL certifications.

Diamonds are not an investment. They do not appreciate and you will not get back anything near what you paid a jeweler.

All jewelry has a very low resale value. Only someone bad with money would buy gems/jewelry as an investment.

Natural rare colored diamonds and quality untreated colored stones went up in value. A natural pearl necklace my mother purchased in 1990 for $2500 I just sold for $12000 at auction. Even if you paid double retail on gold if you held it long enough you’ve made money.

If you invested $2,500 in S&P500 in 1990, it would worth now $98,296.52. That is a bad investment if it turns only $12,000.

You can't wear the S&P.

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Anonymous wrote:Lab or fake diamonds are marked and it's easy to tell because they have no imperfections so it's fake

So they’re too perfect? Make it make sense

Correct. Too perfect is a flaw in and of itself.

Diamonds are a *natural* phenomenon. Just because you can create a perfect carbon crystal in a laboratory doesn’t mean it’s a diamond.

A diamond was created by natural processes. Lab created carbon crystals were not. Just because they are chemically indistinguishable doesn’t matter, if the process they were created was different.

They can put any imperfections in lab grown.

[Anonymous]

It's just a ring people. Not your identity, personality, or symbolic of your relationship. You don't have to go to such extreme efforts to defend your ho-hum jewelry.

But i get it, the big pretty rings are everywhere. So you need to freshen up your defense mechanisms.

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Anonymous wrote:Very low resale value but if you don’t care about that buy them. Nobody will be able to tell visually. You need a tester to know the difference. If you want something investment worthy look for natural untreated colored stones with GIA or AGL certifications.

I think people are confused about lab diamonds. A tester won’t detect any difference between lab or mined diamonds. Chemically, they are exactly the same. It’s not like lab diamonds are CZ, which a tester would obviously be able to detect. Are people being purposefully obtuse about this or do they really not understand? Or are they just mad that diamonds are no longer artificially inflated in price?

There is actually equipment that can detect the difference. A few years ago, very few jewelers had the equipment. Most labs are now marked but I don't assume all are.

Nope. It is all fake. They can not tell the difference. Think about what they are testing with the machine.