DD, if you look up Chebella's posts, she has one on the durability of her asha. I think she wore hers all the time for a period of 5 years in all kids of situations. She includes pics of her asha princess, too. It looked great.
I'd look it up but I'm on my way to my son's baseball game in a few. I have 2 ashas but I've only had them since Feb and March of this year. I baby all my rings so of course, they look brand new. The other thing to know or look up in past posts is that there used to be a lifetime warranty on ashas but because very, very few customers ever used it, it was done away with in order to make the ashas less expensive. Hope that helps.
This is the post MrsGotRocks was talking about. I wore the 1. So now that I have the loose stone, it is still perfect! No setting to hide anything. No dulling, or scratches. Looks perfect. I plan to be nicer to my new stone as it sits up a little higher.
But I can certainly tell you they do last. They do not dull, or get cloudy like most cz's I have seen. Nor to they wear on the sides. Guess this is why I keep buying them Over the years these type of stones have gotten better and better Be it Asha or Winfields type stones that some of the ladies have mentioned. AdaBeta27 Connoisseur Jun 15, Only experts or a very experienced jeweler can tell the difference between a mined and a simulant diamond. An Asha diamond simulant is lab-created to look exactly like a real diamond.
The material is chosen to make this is cubic zirconia, which is layered using a treatment to protect it from damage. The Asha diamond stimulants are designed carefully so that they look like perfect diamonds.
The protective layer is composed of the same atoms as found in real diamonds. This layer adds a brilliant shine and luster to the stimulant so that it looks like the original gemstone. This hybrid stone also goes through an amorphous diamond treatment. It is very helpful in making it as hard and real-looking as a diamond.
On the Mohs hardness scale, the rating of the Asha diamond is usually about 9. The Asha diamond almost never loses its shine or glamorous appearance and that is exactly what makes it so confusing and hard to segregate it from a real diamond. However, if you are ever in doubt, always consider asking an expert. They know how to distinguish the real ones from the hybrid ones. However, they go through a different process as compared to Asha diamond simulants. These stones remain crystal clear and sparkling for a couple of years, however, if a good quality stone is used, it can last a lifetime!
You can find beautiful Nexus diamond simulant colors including canary yellow, pink, light brown, and champagne. Again, since Nexus diamonds look just like the original diamonds only a jeweler can tell them apart. Both Asha and Nexus diamond simulants look the same as the mined diamond.
However, the two differ from each other. The Asha diamond simulant is layered using a treatment that ensures the closing of porous openings which are present in cubic zirconia. On the contrary, Nexus diamonds are not layered and have the tendency to start pitting and accumulate oils and dirt from the skin.
Hence, over time, Nexus diamond simulants can turn cloudy whereas Asha simulants retain their shine and luster. Due to the protective coating on Asha diamond simulants, they look more like the real gem; diamond as compared to the Nexus simulant. Asha simulant diamonds are sometimes, also more expensive as compared to Nexus diamond simulants. Today I am going to be reviewing the Asha, a lab-grown colorless gemstone from BetterthanDiamond.
In my opinion, BTD has become the leader of lab-grown gems and is on the cutting edge of innovation. The President of the company Less P.
Wright has, through the BetterthanDiamond forums, taken such a transparent approach to the way they do business in a way that I have never seen before in any industry. The brands that they carry include the Amora Enhanced Moissanite, the Asha, the Takara lab-grown diamonds, and most recently the Amora Gem. The Amora Gem has received tremendous praise and reviews from those lucky enough to have seen one in person. I have yet to get my hands on one, but once I do I will definitely make a full review of it.
I know many of you are still trying to figure out just how good the Amora Gem is. We were both super impressed with the Asha earrings and my wife loved them so much that she wore them on our wedding day. The Asha was developed in order to remedy the problems faced in a typical cubic zirconia such as color change and becoming cloudy over time.
BTD privately funded research that led to the introduction of the Asha V1 in and backed it with a lifetime warranty against color change and clouding. Thus it can be said that the primary objective of the Asha V1 was to achieve the kind of color that, even under direct sunlight, makes a diamond beautiful.
Having successfully achieved the color that was desired, the Asha was already able to fool the majority of consumers. Experienced jewellers however could still rely on the differences in cutting that were expected from diamonds as diamond cutters would add finishing touches to a diamond that they would not on a cubic zirconia. The Asha V2 was only a brief offering that could be thought of more as a stepping-stone towards the V3. In version 3, the Asha really started to come into itself when it was given a hearts and arrows cut.
Asha V3 owners were consistently able to fool jewellers that could not tell whether or not the gems were diamond. The new cut was not without financial cost to BTD as the Asha V3 took 8 times longer to cut than previous versions. After V3, BTD began experimenting with different types of coating in order to enhance to optical properties of the Asha. The ADT improves the hardness of the Asha so that it is actually harder than sapphires.
Sapphires are commonly known to be one of the hardest gemstones scoring a 9 on the Mohs scale after diamond. With this improvement, the V5 has a diamond signature under Raman spectroscopy. However please note that the Asha does not test as a diamond under a diamond tester as the differences in thermal conductivity gives the Asha a different heat signature to that of diamond.
An additional benefit of an improved ADT was that the contact angle the Asha makes with water is lower and this helps keep the Asha cleaner longer than diamond as oil and grease is less attracted to the Asha.
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