Diamond identification and diamond grading reports have long played crucial roles in the Swiss watch and fine jewelry industries. Considering the incommensurable quantity of lab-grown, a.k.a. synthetic, diamonds present within the natural diamond supply chain, identification and grading reports are of urgent importance today.
Jewelry trade publications such as JCK are reporting ever more instances of lab-grown diamonds bearing fraudulent inscriptions linked to grading reports for natural gems. These impostors possess characteristics and measurements almost identical to the natural diamonds that received the original lab reports. What’s more, some manufacturers, wittingly or not, are producing jewelry and watches that they market as containing natural diamonds when in
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