True or synthetic diamonds? Hrd Antwerp’s detective machines are coming ♦
As we have written several times, among buyers, but also among jewelers, uncertainty increases. The doubt concerns the certification of diamonds, since more and more often artificial stones are so similar to natural ones that the distinction has become increasingly difficult, even for experts. For this reason the game that is played between those who sell jewelry with authentic diamonds and who, instead, uses those created in the laboratory, becomes more tight. Obviously the game is not played when diamonds are declared as artificials from the beginning.
The problem, instead, is to get the guarantee that the ring with solitaire purchased is really, 100%, made with a stone “daughter of nature”.
It is not only an economic issue, since the value of a natural diamond is greater, but also one aspect sentimental: the idea that a stone was created by the compression of continents moving millions of years ago remains attractive to many people.
Now Hrd Antwerp, one of the most reliable gemological certification companies, has developed and commercialized two new diamond analysis tools.
Objective: to offer consumers a guarantee of quality. Two devices that are a sort of Sherlock Holmes of gemologist, M-Screen + and D-Tect, therefore allow the detection of synthetic diamonds and offer, explains the company, a solution to the most important challenge for the diamond industry. The plus of these devices is, among other things, the speed and precision with which they operate, thanks to technologies based on UV light spectroscopy and photoluminescence.
It should be added that so far the devices designed to find synthetic diamonds, which in large batches sometimes hide in the middle of hundreds of real pieces, were only intended for large laboratories. Hrd Antwerp, instead, thinks that the proposed solutions can be adopted on a large scale, that is, by jewelers. With a guarantee of authenticity that can be appreciated by those who buy a jewel.