Gemesis to Clearly Identify its Diamonds

Gemesis, makers of lab grown diamonds, is launching a program to assist retail jewelers, designers and consumers to clearly identify laboratory-created diamonds. It will laser inscribe the girdles of its polished diamonds “Gemesis Created” and add a serial number.

Together with the IGI gem lab it will provide laser inscriptions and identification reports for all Gemesis-created diamonds weighing 0.25 carats and above.

“We will provide an identification card with a picture of the inscription and the dimensions, carat weight, cut description and serial number,” David Hellier, VP Sales and Marketing, of Gemesis told IDEX.

It will be possible to detect the stone as a Gemesis stone even after being set in a jewelry piece by a qualified lab that could read the inscription, he adds.

Gemesis decided on this form of identification, it says, following consumer and industry reactions, asking for clear disclosure.

However the company says it cannot guarantee that all their stones are sold with absolute disclosure. “What we can do - and what we are doing - is establishing relationships only with reputable partners, initiating a comprehensive identification program, and working diligently with major gemological labs,” says Hellier.

Gemesis creates in its labs approximately 600 rough carats per month. The polished diamonds are ranging in weight from 0.25 carats to approximately 1.85 carats, in colors from fancy intense yellow to vivid orange.

Prices of their polished diamonds are between one-fourth and one-fifth of the price of a natural diamond of comparable color and carat weight.