It takes the Earth more than a billion years to forge a diamond.
Lab grown diamonds are being made in a week.
Large sized diamond forging machines can churn out 3-carat lab grown diamonds in 7 days.
Over 70% of the world's lab grown diamonds for jewellery originate in Chinese factories now.
The explosion of lab grown diamonds on the international jewellery market has coincided with a slump in demand for natural diamonds, sending the price of smaller natural diamonds to their lowest levels in a decade.
However remember that lab grown diamonds grow yellow and generally donot have much resale value whereas natural Diamonds rise in value
Moreover if you are in a gathering who knows original diamond, you may get ridiculed for wearing a lab grown diamond.
