The Science of Sparkle
- Cultivated Diamond Origin: Genuine diamonds created in laboratories using advanced technology that replicates nature’s billion-year process.
- Cultivated Diamond Quality: Chemically, physically, and optically identical to natural diamonds, offering exceptional quality and ethical sourcing.
- Cultivated Diamond Creation Methods: High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) and Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) methods recreate the extreme conditions found deep within the Earth’s mantle.
- Diamond Quality: Cultivated diamonds with VVS1 clarity and D colour, representing less than 0.01% of all diamonds, are rare and valuable.
- Physical Properties: Cultivated diamonds have identical carbon crystal structures to natural diamonds, with identical physical properties.
- Grading and Certification: Maison Alwadhi’s cultivated diamonds are graded and certified by the International Gemological Institute (IGI), ensuring they meet the most rigorous international standards.
- IGI Grading Standards: IGI applies the same 4Cs (Cut, Colour, Clarity, Carat weight) grading criteria to both cultivated and natural diamonds, ensuring objectivity and accuracy.
- IGI Certification Expertise: IGI leads the cultivated diamond certification market, providing detailed analysis of growth methods, treatment detection, and comprehensive quality documentation.
- Cultivated Diamond Authenticity: Cultivated diamonds are genuine diamonds with the same chemical composition, crystal structure, and physical properties as natural diamonds.
- Visual Identification: Trained gemologists cannot distinguish cultivated from natural diamonds without specialised equipment.
- Durability: Cultivated diamonds are identical to natural diamonds in hardness, scratch resistance, and overall durability.
- Benefits: Cultivated diamonds offer environmental advantages, ethical sourcing, and economic benefits.
- Quality Consistency: Laboratory conditions allow precise control over growth parameters, resulting in fewer inclusions and more consistent characteristics compared to natural diamonds.
- Certification and Quality Assurance: IGI’s comprehensive certification process ensures complete quality documentation for every cultivated diamond, including 4Cs grading, clarity plotting, and quality assessments.
- Cultivated Diamond Advantages: Cultivated diamonds are becoming larger, of higher quality, and more accessible, while maintaining identical properties to natural diamonds.
- Diamond Quality: VVS1 clarity and D colour cultivated diamonds offer exceptional quality, rarity, and beauty.
- Ethical and Environmental Benefits: Cultivated diamonds provide ethical sourcing and environmental responsibility.
- Value and Luxury: Cultivated diamonds offer remarkable value and conscious luxury for modern consumers.