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Brilliant best: Why lab-grown diamonds have overtaken natural
Brett Afshar explains to Jewellery Focus the huge increase in lab-grown diamonds that Queensmith has seen, the reasons why consumers may prefer lab-grown over natural and whether the natural diamond market is on the ropes.
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โA natural one carat stone is gonna cost you about ยฃ10,000 in a lab grade, it’s gonna cost you about ยฃ2,000 so there’s massive polarisation between the two,โ says Brett Afshar, MD and founder of Queensmith jewellers.
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