14k Gold Lab Grown Diamond Round Solitaire Stud

The reference point. Everything else gets measured against it.

One round brilliant lab-grown diamond in each ear, lifted on three slim prongs so almost nothing but light touches the stone. This is the pair you put in on a Tuesday morning and forget about until someone across a table stops mid-sentence to look. At half a carat it is a quiet signal. At five it is the entire outfit. Same setting, completely different woman in the mirror.

✦ The Round Brilliant Cut

Fifty-seven facets, angled so that light entering the top of the stone bounces internally and comes straight back out at you. No other shape returns as much. That is why the round brilliant became the reference standard: when someone pictures a diamond, this is the picture. It has no direction and no front, so it reads the same from across a room as it does at conversation distance, and it disappears into any wardrobe you already own. Nothing to coordinate around.

Against the other Martini shapes, round is the most forgiving stone you can buy. The facets scatter light so aggressively that faint colour and small inclusions have nowhere to sit. Choose it if you want maximum fire per carat and never want to think about your earrings again.

• Stone: Round brilliant lab-grown diamond, 57 facets
• Clarity: VS+, eye-clean
• Color: EF+, near-colorless and bright white
• Cut: Excellent
• Carat weight: 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 ctw
• Setting: Three-prong martini, set low and open so light reaches the stone from underneath as well as above

✦ Metal & Construction

• Solid 14k gold throughout, in yellow or white. Not plated, not filled, not vermeil.
• The martini setting is named for the shape of the basket: three prongs tapering to a point beneath the stone, like a cocktail glass. Less metal than a four-prong basket, which is exactly the point.
• Because the basket tapers, the diamond sits close to the lobe instead of standing off it. At the higher carat weights that is what keeps the stud from tipping forward.
• Posts finish with push backs, the flat notched back that grips the post. Simple, secure, nothing to unscrew and lose in a sink.
• Built for your order in your chosen metal and carat.

✦ How to Wear It

Round is the shape that lets you build. Put a 1ct in your first hole and add anything you like above it, a huggie, a small hoop, a second stud in a different shape entirely. Because a round has no orientation, nothing you stack has to line up with it. That is the practical argument for owning this pair before any other.

At 0.5 and 1ct they sit under a strand of hair and only show when you move. Two and three carats is where people start noticing before you say anything. At 4 and 5 the studs stop being neutral, so wear your hair up, keep your neckline bare, and let them carry the look on their own. In yellow gold they read warm and classic. In white gold the metal vanishes and you see nothing but stone.

✦ Why Lab-Grown Diamonds

• Chemically and optically identical to mined diamonds. Same carbon lattice, same 10 on the Mohs scale, same fire.
• Graded against the same 4Cs by the same gemological standards, which is how we can hold every stone to EF colour and VS clarity.
• Traceable origin. You know exactly where each diamond came from.
• Meaningfully better value, which is why a 3ct pair of studs can be something you own rather than something you save a photo of.

✦ Perfect For

• The first real diamonds you bought with your own money. Most women start here.
• The days that run office to dinner with no chance to change.
• Pitches, interviews, board meetings. They read as competence rather than decoration.
• Travel, because push backs stay put and there is no directional stone to keep straightening.
• Weddings where you are not the bride and would rather look expensive than dressed up.

✦ Care & Longevity

• Solid 14k gold will not tarnish or fade. It only needs cleaning.
• Warm water, a drop of mild soap and a soft toothbrush. Work underneath the basket, where lotion and skin oil collect and quietly kill the sparkle. Most studs that look dull are simply dirty.
• Take them out before you sleep. A push back worked against a pillow all night loosens over time, and a loose back is how earrings go missing.
• Skip the shower. Soap film builds under the setting faster than anything else, and chlorine attacks the alloys in gold.
• Put them in last, after perfume, hairspray and sunscreen. Take them out first.
• Press the back firmly onto the post before you leave the house.

✦ Made to Order

Every pair is built for your order, with the two stones matched to each other for colour and cut before they are set. Plan on 4 to 5 weeks for delivery, often sooner when a matched pair is already in stock.

• Returns accepted within 20 business days of delivery for store credit, unless stated otherwise under product.