Chatham Lab Created Stones

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.

Chatham lab created stones.

The average person would be hard pressed to tell the difference between a natural and lab created stone. We don t make gems. Because they are carefully grown you can expect your chatham created blue sapphire to have gorgeous color and consistent quality. These gemstones have the same physical chemical and optical properties as mined gemstones and diamonds have.

For most of recorded history rubies have been the most valuable gems. The only difference is where they form above the earth versus below the earth. Alexandrites are so difficult to grow that it took us several years of effort to perfect the process. 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.

Chatham is the leading producer of top quality lab created gemstones. Chatham is a proud pioneer of lab grown gemstones. Chatham s lab grown rubies have a pigeon s blood color and a clarity seen in only the very best mined gems. Jul 1 2020 lab grown diamonds lab grown gemstones pull out your sun block and shades cause summer has officially begun.

Chatham the original architects and brand authority of the lab grown gemstone industry since 1938 as well as lab grown diamonds since 1993. Gems of passion rubies burn with undying flames. Chatham gemstones are optically chemically and physically identical to their mined counterparts. Since chatham has experience growing emerald crystals we always wanted to try growing alexandrite crystals as well.

Our chatham created alexandrites are very close to the russian ideal. They grow in the natural crystal habit shown left in a controlled environment. We control the environment so that crystals can grow naturally. As the largest distributor of colored gemstones in the u s stuller applies stringent protocols when handling genuine and lab grown gemstones.

Chatham is proud to be the pioneer of lab grown gemstones and lab created diamonds. 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.