The lab-created market is reported to have expanded to approximately $US10 billion in retail gross sales, around 10 per cent of the complete global diamond trade – and is growing. However, you will need to realise that the percentage is far higher when you look at precise carats or ‘pieces’. In 2021, Pandora announced that it would no longer sell jewelry with natural diamonds and as an alternative use lab-created diamonds in its new brand, Pandora Brilliance.
You can even go classic or have something you no longer put on recycled and reworked into your never-take-off piece. By 2025, in …