Diamonds, both kinds
Diamond engagement rings
The same mount, the same settings and band styles, the same metals, the same grading scale. One stone grew in a laboratory and one came out of the ground, and the two ladders sit here side by side so the difference is the price and the origin, nothing else.
2 rings · made to order in your size · engraving included
Lab grown diamond solitaire
Four claws, one certified diamond, grown rather than mined.
Natural diamond solitaire
A mined diamond with a GIA report, chosen one stone at a time.
Every carat, priced
The price at each step, in 9ct gold with four claws on a plain band. Add £220 for 14ct gold, £495 for 18ct gold or £380 for platinum 950. Settings, band styles and sizes above P are priced on each page.
| Ring | Stone | Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lab grown diamond solitaire | Lab grown diamond | 0.5ct £595 | 1ct £795 | 1.5ct £995 | 2ct £1,195 |
| Natural diamond solitaire | Natural diamond | 0.5ct £995 | 0.75ct £1,395 | 1ct £2,695 |
A lab grown diamond and a mined one are the same crystal, graded by the same laboratories to the same colour, clarity and cut scale, and indistinguishable without specialist equipment. What differs is where the carbon crystallised and what that costs. A one carat lab stone costs roughly what a third of a carat of mined diamond does, so the lab ladder runs to two carats where the natural one stops at one.
Choose by what matters to you. If size for the money matters most, the lab ladder gives you the larger, cleaner stone. If it matters that the stone came out of the ground, the natural ladder starts under a carat, where a mined diamond is still priced sanely, and every stone comes with its GIA report. Either way you see the report for your specific stone before it is set, and either ring can be cast in 9ct, 14ct or 18ct gold or platinum with a halo or a set band as options.
Work it out before you order
About diamond rings
- Should I buy a lab grown or a natural diamond?
- Lab grown if the size and cleanliness of the stone for the money is what you care about; natural if it matters to you that the stone was mined, and you are happy to pay for that at under a carat. Both are graded identically and both come with a report. Neither holds resale value, so that is not a reason to pick one.
- Can you tell them apart?
- Not by eye, and not with a jeweller's loupe. A laboratory can, and the report states the origin. Natural stones carry a GIA inscription on the girdle matching the report number.
- Why does the natural ladder stop at one carat?
- Because above a carat the price of a mined diamond climbs steeply for a difference in diameter of a millimetre or two. Under a carat is where a natural stone still makes sense for the money; above it, the lab ladder gives you far more stone.