Chatham Lab Created Stones

We don t make gems.

Chatham lab created stones.

Chatham is a proud pioneer of lab grown gemstones. Chatham is proud to be the pioneer of lab grown gemstones and lab created diamonds. Chatham is the leading producer of top quality lab created gemstones. Chatham is here to help you transition from your sunny day look into those hot summer nights with our lab grown gemstone and diamond jewelry hoops.

Chatham lab grown blue sapphires are not cheap flame fusion sapphires. A lab grown gemstone is identical physically optically and chemically to its mined counterpart. Gems of passion rubies burn with undying flames. Chatham does not make gems rather they control the envir.

Chatham gemstones are optically chemically and physically identical to their mined counterparts. They grow in the natural crystal habit shown left in a controlled environment. Chatham is recognized as the leader of laboratory grown gemstones with a large selection of rubies blue pink white and yellow sapphires emeralds padparadscha alexandrite aqua blue spinel and diamond. Since chatham has experience growing emerald crystals we always wanted to try growing alexandrite crystals as well.

Alexandrites are so difficult to grow that it took us several years of effort to perfect the process. As the largest distributor of colored gemstones in the u s stuller applies stringent protocols when handling genuine and lab grown gemstones. The mineral composition of lab created stones is created through a process similar to what nature does beneath the earth over millions of years but in a lab at a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost of mining. Jul 1 2020 lab grown diamonds lab grown gemstones pull out your sun block and shades cause summer has officially begun.

For most of recorded history rubies have been the most valuable gems. These gemstones have the same physical chemical and optical properties as mined gemstones and diamonds have. Our chatham created alexandrites are very close to the russian ideal. Chatham s lab grown rubies have a pigeon s blood color and a clarity seen in only the very best mined gems.

We control the environment so that crystals can grow naturally. Chatham the original architects and brand authority of the lab grown gemstone industry since 1938 as well as lab grown diamonds since 1993. The average person would be hard pressed to tell the difference between a natural and lab created stone.