Cubic Zirconia Jewelry versus Diamonds Jewelry

Since coming to the world in the 1830s, diamonds was one of the favorite for jewelry. Not everyone can afford to buy diamonds, so the search for the best man-made version has been battled for years. Cubic Zirconia is considered the best man-made diamond for jewelry on the market today.

There are various reasons: some people do not buy diamond jewelry. The first is that the inflated price some believe has been controlled by the DeBeers diamond coalition. Many people believe that prices do not reflect the scarcity of diamonds in an equitable manner. There have also been studies that show one third of all diamonds sold in the United States today has been altered by an artificial medium to increase the value of diamonds. The same studies show young couples on an average 40% pay too much for their diamond engagement ring.

A good quality cubic zirconia jewelry is almost identical from the mined diamonds. Even some jeweler can not tell the difference between a cubic zirconia and a diamond without gemmologist tool. The cost of cubic zirconia jewelry is about 75% less than the cost of a diamond.

There are other synthetic diamonds used in the market today to replace the parameters of diamond jewelry. The moissanite is a mineral created by a laboratory as a good replacement of the diamond stone. It was introduced to the market in the 1990s. It has become the choice of some of their jewelry collection. There are those who prefer moissante to cubic zirconia.. The party Moissan diamond in hardness of minerals, but there is a downside. The cost is about $500 per carat and the moissante does not have the brilliance and fire of a diamond or the cubic zirconia.

Recently introduced into the American jewelry market is the Diamond Nexus. The Diamond Nexus is the result of a new scientific technique of treatment. They are an excellent replacement stone for the mined diamond. They possess all the qualities of a diamond from the hardness to the brilliance and fire. They are only used in precious metal settings and are priced fairly reasonably at $79 a carat.

The Russian cubic zirconias are the cubic zirconia of the highest quality. The Russian cubic zirconia use in jewelry feature superior cutting and polishing techniques. Because of the masterful cutting and polishing techniques used to finish the stones, enhances the brilliance and fire of the stone creating a stone of a much higher quality than those mass produced and machine cut with very little polishing.

For my money, I will take a cubic zirconia jewelry over the other synthetic diamond jewelry any day.