Labs of luxury: Quality diamonds are now being made by technicians, but can a synthetic gem replace the allure of the real thing? - The Globe and Mail

The biggest challenge for lab-grown diamond producers is finding and hiring enough skilled scientists and technicians to make them quickly and reliably enough in quality and quantity to meet orders

A cut and polished ALTR lab grown diamond.ALTR Created Diamonds/Handout Earlier this year, Frédéric Arnault, the lanky twentysomething head of LVMHs Tag Heuer brand and potential heir to the Paris-b… [+29374 chars]

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