Diamonds may be a woman’s best friend, but modern man made diamonds
are so good as to be indistinguishable from real diamonds. And when you look
at the huge savings on price, man made diamonds may be a woman’s best
decision.
Increasingly, engaged couples are considering the cost of some wedding jewelry.
In today’s high pressure high cost lifestyle couples are really wondering
whether or not it is appropriate to spend big on, say, a diamond engagement
ring.
The more spent on wedding jewelry the less available later for the important
things in the marriage, like a house. Or the kids when they arrive. Is it
responsible to spend so much to buy a diamond engagement ring when these
more important things may need to be compromised later?
Especially when you consider that good quality man made diamonds cannot be
distinguished from real diamonds, even by jewellers.
Faux diamonds are big business. The pearl jewelry industry was revolutionised
by the advent of cultured pearls. Synthetic diamonds are doing the same thing
to the wedding jewelry business.
There are a range of ways to produce synthetic diamonds. Modern technology
is very adept at making any product which will sell well and faux diamonds
are no exception. And the quality is so good that many of the alternatives
to diamonds perform exceedingly well when compared to diamond using the common
diamond quality tests.
In such tests as hardness, refractive index, fire, brilliance, luster and
others the man made diamonds perform admirably. Sometimes even better.
Brilliance is a test of the amount of light which enters the stone and gets
reflected back. It is affected by the quality of the cut of the stone.
Fire is the ability of the stone to break light down into it’s component
colors and is also affected by the cut. “Fire” can be seen as color
coming out of the stone.
Luster is the amount of light reflected back from the surface of the
stone.
Moissanite, for example, outperforms diamond in brilliance, fire and luster
and is only very slightly lower on the hardness scale. In fact a special
piece of testing equipment had to be designed so that jewellers could tell
moissanite from diamond as so many were unable to.
And, of course, moissanite is much cheaper than diamonds. And if most jewellers
cannot tell it apart from diamonds, could you?
There are a range of different processes used to produce a stone which is
a good diamond alternative. Most produce fine quality stones which produce
stunning quality jewelry which any woman would be proud to wear.
Moissanite is not strictly a man made diamond though, as it is, in fact,
naturally occurring. Unfortunately it doesn’t occur in sufficient quantities
to be commercially viable for mining. But technology has come to the rescue
by devising a method of producing high quality crystals.
Our preference for the best alternative to diamonds? Moissanite. A fine jewelry
stone which will make a stunning engagement ring, or other jewelry piece.
And you can buy moissanite wedding jewelry at a fraction of the price of
diamond wedding jewelry.
And when the kids come along, buy them something extra from us from the money
you’ve saved.
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