"The Amora Gem is simply amazing in real life!!! I will never purchase another diamond..."
"I am so happy with my decision to get an Amora Gem - a diamond just cannot compare."
"...it does have more fire and scintillation than diamonds!"
"The Amora is Amazing."
- A few examples of customer feedback on Amora Gem Ultra
"I am so happy with my decision to get an Amora Gem - a diamond just cannot compare."
"...it does have more fire and scintillation than diamonds!"
"The Amora is Amazing."
- A few examples of customer feedback on Amora Gem Ultra
Independent reviews of the Amora Gem (with comparisons to natural diamonds):
ProsumerDiamonds.com:
Excerpt: "When you buy an Amora Gem, what you're getting is an affordable, durable forever stone that is cut to Hearts and Arrows standard and is brighter and more fiery than a diamond."
Full Amora Gem Review - click to view
GoodOldGold.com
Review snippet, showing a picture-perfect H&A diamond, an asha and an Amora Gem Ultra under spotlighting:
Review snippet, showing a picture-perfect H&A diamond, an asha and an Amora Gem Ultra under spotlighting:
Amora® - More Fire, More Brilliance, More Passion™
Amora Gem is the world's newest and ultimate gem.
It is the first and only lab-grown gem to surpass diamond in brilliance, toughness, fire, rarity and luster.
Further, Amora Gem is also able to match the world's most valuable white diamonds in color and clarity, with up to D color, and Internally Flawless clarity.
The Amora Gem is over one million times rarer than diamond (based on the past 10 years of natural diamond production vs Amora Gem production). Amora Gem is composed of 50% carbon and 50% silicon, and only grows in star-like conditions that would vaporize diamond. The Amora Gem crystal naturally occurs around large stars as stardust, but was never available on Earth until now (thanks to seven figures and eight years of research and development).
Amora Gem is grown in a laboratory where the star-like conditions it naturally grows in have finally been replicated on Earth. Thus every Amora Gem is 100% conflict-free and environmentally friendly.
Amoras are each individually graded under the GIA diamond grading scale and priced according to their carat weight, color and clarity.
Amora Gems are cut in the USA, with our own in-house built TIGER robot system. With 10 micron precision, it is the world's most advanced gem cutting robot. TIGER delivers incredible symmetry and precision including our synchronized and faceted girdle so you can enjoy the world's most stunning and most perfectly cut gem, Amora!
Amora Gem is both patent-pending, and patented!
It is the first and only lab-grown gem to surpass diamond in brilliance, toughness, fire, rarity and luster.
Further, Amora Gem is also able to match the world's most valuable white diamonds in color and clarity, with up to D color, and Internally Flawless clarity.
The Amora Gem is over one million times rarer than diamond (based on the past 10 years of natural diamond production vs Amora Gem production). Amora Gem is composed of 50% carbon and 50% silicon, and only grows in star-like conditions that would vaporize diamond. The Amora Gem crystal naturally occurs around large stars as stardust, but was never available on Earth until now (thanks to seven figures and eight years of research and development).
Amora Gem is grown in a laboratory where the star-like conditions it naturally grows in have finally been replicated on Earth. Thus every Amora Gem is 100% conflict-free and environmentally friendly.
Amoras are each individually graded under the GIA diamond grading scale and priced according to their carat weight, color and clarity.
Amora Gems are cut in the USA, with our own in-house built TIGER robot system. With 10 micron precision, it is the world's most advanced gem cutting robot. TIGER delivers incredible symmetry and precision including our synchronized and faceted girdle so you can enjoy the world's most stunning and most perfectly cut gem, Amora!
Amora Gem is both patent-pending, and patented!
What exactly is Amora Gem?
Amora Gem is the world's newest gem, a cousin to diamond, and the most brilliant member of the 200+ member silicon carbide family. While diamond is composed of 100% carbon, Amora Gem is 50% carbon and 50% silicon.
For the first time ever in human history, Amora is now available as a gem on our planet. While diamond has previously been the most desirable gem, the Amora surpasses diamond in every aspect of optical beauty and toughness.
You can read read more here regarding what is an Amora Gem?
Is it a naturally occuring crystal?
Yes. While Amora Gem for jewelry use on Earth is grown in a laboratory (and thus avoiding the issues related to mining), it is a naturally occuring crystal that has existed as stardust around large carbon-rich stars for eons, long before our planet was born (see Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, April 1988). The starlight you see in the night sky may very well have sparkled off Amora gem stardust.
Since Amora Gem only grows in conditions that would vaporize diamond — extremely high temperatures such as those around larger stars — it is not naturally found on the Earth like diamond is.
It is only now after eight-plus years of research and development that the star-like conditions required to grow the Amora Gem crystal have been achieved in a lab.
Thus, for the first time in 4.5 billion years since our Earth was formed, Amora Gem is finally available here on Earth to jewelry lovers around the world in very limited quantities.
When were the first Amoras shown and sold?
The first sales of Amora Gem started in July 2013, right here on our website since we are the official maker of this stunning gem. One of the very first Amora Gems was displayed at the Hungarian Natural History Museum as the newest/youngest crystal on our planet. The first larger Amora Gem now graces the finger of a former Miss America.
Why was Amora Gem crystal never available on Earth until now?
Due to the incredibly high temperatures Amora Gem requires for growth - literally star-like conditions, it has never been available as a gem crystal until now. Its lack of availability is perhaps one reason that diamond became the most prized gem on Earth.
The multi-patent-pending Amora H&A lab-grown gem is now available to consumers in select countries for the first time.
How does it compare to other gems?
Click here for an infographic comparing the Amora Gem to diamond, sapphire, cubic zirconia etc.
Media and press coverage:
Business Insider — This gem promises to make diamonds a thing of the past
Wall Street Journal — Amora Gem, Worlds Newest Gem, tests as diamond on many diamond testers (press release)
Amora Gem is the world's newest gem, a cousin to diamond, and the most brilliant member of the 200+ member silicon carbide family. While diamond is composed of 100% carbon, Amora Gem is 50% carbon and 50% silicon.
For the first time ever in human history, Amora is now available as a gem on our planet. While diamond has previously been the most desirable gem, the Amora surpasses diamond in every aspect of optical beauty and toughness.
You can read read more here regarding what is an Amora Gem?
Is it a naturally occuring crystal?
Yes. While Amora Gem for jewelry use on Earth is grown in a laboratory (and thus avoiding the issues related to mining), it is a naturally occuring crystal that has existed as stardust around large carbon-rich stars for eons, long before our planet was born (see Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, April 1988). The starlight you see in the night sky may very well have sparkled off Amora gem stardust.
Since Amora Gem only grows in conditions that would vaporize diamond — extremely high temperatures such as those around larger stars — it is not naturally found on the Earth like diamond is.
It is only now after eight-plus years of research and development that the star-like conditions required to grow the Amora Gem crystal have been achieved in a lab.
Thus, for the first time in 4.5 billion years since our Earth was formed, Amora Gem is finally available here on Earth to jewelry lovers around the world in very limited quantities.
When were the first Amoras shown and sold?
The first sales of Amora Gem started in July 2013, right here on our website since we are the official maker of this stunning gem. One of the very first Amora Gems was displayed at the Hungarian Natural History Museum as the newest/youngest crystal on our planet. The first larger Amora Gem now graces the finger of a former Miss America.
Why was Amora Gem crystal never available on Earth until now?
Due to the incredibly high temperatures Amora Gem requires for growth - literally star-like conditions, it has never been available as a gem crystal until now. Its lack of availability is perhaps one reason that diamond became the most prized gem on Earth.
The multi-patent-pending Amora H&A lab-grown gem is now available to consumers in select countries for the first time.
How does it compare to other gems?
Click here for an infographic comparing the Amora Gem to diamond, sapphire, cubic zirconia etc.
Media and press coverage:
Business Insider — This gem promises to make diamonds a thing of the past
Wall Street Journal — Amora Gem, Worlds Newest Gem, tests as diamond on many diamond testers (press release)
*Every Amora Gem Ultra comes with a full independent diamond-style grading report.
Inventory restocking Schedule and Updates on sold out sizes — click for details:
Independent diamond-style grading reports for every Amora Gem:
Inventory restocking Schedule and Updates on sold out sizes — click for details:
Independent diamond-style grading reports for every Amora Gem:
What does Amora Gem Ultra cost?
Amora Gem Ultra vs equivalent diamond pricing:
How do I order a ring with an Amora Gem?
What is the most popular ring for Amora Gem Ultras? By far and away the most popular ring customers pick to hold their Ultra is our Timeless Regal ring (which also happens to be our single best-selling ring overall). Details for this ring are here.
Amora H&A lab-grown gem compared to diamond:
Multi-patent pending, and Patented: Amora Gem is now Multi-Patent Pending in the US, and we have additional foreign patents in progress in China, Canada, India, etc. (US Patent applications include: 13224468, 13733061 and 14020639, and International patent application: PCT/US12/28892). Patented - Australia, 2016100041.
Ultra Hearts & Arrows™ :
Within a given crystal type, cutting controls 98% of the brilliance. Hearts and arrows cutting is the absolute premiere cut for natural diamond, but only 2% or less of natural diamonds are ever cut to this level of optical perfection. Because Amora has much greater brilliance and fire than diamond, the hearts and arrows parameters had to be completely revised and improved for the Amora Gem to account for its superior optics.
Thus, we have devoted significant resources to modeling, cutting, designing and testing the Amora H&A. In January of 2014, we did a month of additional research and were able to maximize the true fire and brilliance of the Amora Gem crystal, as well as maximize the scintillation and boldness of flashes from the cut. The result is our patent-pending Ultra H&A round. Feedback from diamond graders has been extremely positive, with references that the look and feel is that of an AGS premium H&A natural diamond (but with more total brilliance and fire).
Sample light analysis and H&A images of our Ultra H&A cut:
Amora Gem Ultra vs equivalent diamond pricing:
How do I order a ring with an Amora Gem?
What is the most popular ring for Amora Gem Ultras? By far and away the most popular ring customers pick to hold their Ultra is our Timeless Regal ring (which also happens to be our single best-selling ring overall). Details for this ring are here.
Amora H&A lab-grown gem compared to diamond:
- More brilliant than diamond
- More fire than diamond
- Greater physical stability and tougher than diamond
- D, E and F color — better color than most diamonds
- Hearts and arrows precision — better cutting than 99% of all round diamonds
- Greater purity than diamond — atomically, ethically, environmentally
- Scores significantly better in the 5th C — Cost, oftentimes 40:1 better pricing for comparable color, carat weight and clarity.
- Much, much rarer than diamond. Amora Gem previously only existed around large carbon-rich stars, unavailable to any humans on Earth for over four billion years of Earth's history. Now that Amora is grown in a lab by creating star-like conditions, the total production is a small fraction of the annual mining output of natural diamonds.
- Amora Ultra H&A is The Ultimate Gem.
Multi-patent pending, and Patented: Amora Gem is now Multi-Patent Pending in the US, and we have additional foreign patents in progress in China, Canada, India, etc. (US Patent applications include: 13224468, 13733061 and 14020639, and International patent application: PCT/US12/28892). Patented - Australia, 2016100041.
Ultra Hearts & Arrows™ :
Within a given crystal type, cutting controls 98% of the brilliance. Hearts and arrows cutting is the absolute premiere cut for natural diamond, but only 2% or less of natural diamonds are ever cut to this level of optical perfection. Because Amora has much greater brilliance and fire than diamond, the hearts and arrows parameters had to be completely revised and improved for the Amora Gem to account for its superior optics.
Thus, we have devoted significant resources to modeling, cutting, designing and testing the Amora H&A. In January of 2014, we did a month of additional research and were able to maximize the true fire and brilliance of the Amora Gem crystal, as well as maximize the scintillation and boldness of flashes from the cut. The result is our patent-pending Ultra H&A round. Feedback from diamond graders has been extremely positive, with references that the look and feel is that of an AGS premium H&A natural diamond (but with more total brilliance and fire).
Sample light analysis and H&A images of our Ultra H&A cut:
In an industry first, all Amora Ultra H&As are cut *exclusively* by robot. Robotic cutting enables super-human precision and incredible craftsmanship compared to hand cutting, ensuring that *every* Amora Ultra H&A has unparalleled beauty.
Amora H&A gem compared to other gems:
Amora H&A gem compared to other gems:
- More brilliant than moissanite (Amora GEM is a different crystal with superior optical properties than moissanite). Amora Gem is the most brilliant gem anywhere
- Far better color than moissanite by Charles & Colvard and absolutely no green tinting in diffuse lighting (D,E,F Color vs. J-N color)
- 27% harder than sapphire
- More brilliant than cubic zirconia
- Harder than cubic zirconia
Amora Gem - Independent Scientific Color Grading
Below is the results of an independent spectrometer analysis conducted on 3 Round Brilliant Gems.
A spectrometer is used to scientifically analyze color of a gem by placing the gem in a light capturing enclosure, and then beaming in, one wavelength at a time, the full spectrum of light.
By measuring what is absorbed by the gem, a color analysis can be done in a thorough and complete manner. When light is absorbed, color or tinting is created. If most light is not absorbed, then it is a colorless gem.
The results, with annotation, are shown below:
Below is the results of an independent spectrometer analysis conducted on 3 Round Brilliant Gems.
A spectrometer is used to scientifically analyze color of a gem by placing the gem in a light capturing enclosure, and then beaming in, one wavelength at a time, the full spectrum of light.
By measuring what is absorbed by the gem, a color analysis can be done in a thorough and complete manner. When light is absorbed, color or tinting is created. If most light is not absorbed, then it is a colorless gem.
The results, with annotation, are shown below:
And for clarity, below is the analysis with no commentary added.
Note that to the left of the purple bar is Ultra-Violet and to the right, Infra-red. Neither side is visible to human eyes.
Extensive customer reviews and feedback of the Amora Gem Ultra are on the message boards:
While some reviews are posted on this page under the reviews tab, many customers have posted much more in-depth reviews with photos and even videos on our message boards. Some examples with direct links (click on the left-most title to jump to the review):
Photos & Videos — Ultra Amora Gem: (Excerpt) "This evening, I received my Ultra and am SO incredibly happy with it. ...The Ultra has definitely delivered on its promise and is certainly the most spectacular diamond alternative I've seen, especially given it's colorless quality and immense durability."
My new 7mm round Amora Ultra: "This gem is gorgeous and I love it!"
Received my 6.5mm D IF Amora Ultra! "I went through tons of diamonds of D Color and high clarity grade at Jewelers recently, and this Amora really does look that good. I'm thoroughly impressed."
The above are just some recent examples, but please feel free to peruse and interact with Amora Gem owners globally on our Amora forums here.
(Note: For additional details, you may also want to read through our 11/11/11 debut presentation on our message boards here)
Availability :
Amora Ultra H&A is currently available for sale, but due to high demand and low supply, some sizes are periodically sold out. We are working hard to increase our total production by increasing the number of cutting robots this year.
Due to competing patent restrictions from Charles & Colvard related to silicon carbide gems that covers several crystal types including the Amora gem's crystal structure, Amora H&A may not be available in your country until 2015 to as late as 2016 — whenever the related patent expires. Many countries including New Zealand, India, Singapore, etc are however patent-free and you may purchase as soon as we begin sales by signing up on our waiting list at http://BetterThanDiamond.com/notify.
Some common questions:
Can I purchase an Amora Ultra H&A?
What are the dimensions of the various sizes?
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
While some reviews are posted on this page under the reviews tab, many customers have posted much more in-depth reviews with photos and even videos on our message boards. Some examples with direct links (click on the left-most title to jump to the review):
Photos & Videos — Ultra Amora Gem: (Excerpt) "This evening, I received my Ultra and am SO incredibly happy with it. ...The Ultra has definitely delivered on its promise and is certainly the most spectacular diamond alternative I've seen, especially given it's colorless quality and immense durability."
My new 7mm round Amora Ultra: "This gem is gorgeous and I love it!"
Received my 6.5mm D IF Amora Ultra! "I went through tons of diamonds of D Color and high clarity grade at Jewelers recently, and this Amora really does look that good. I'm thoroughly impressed."
The above are just some recent examples, but please feel free to peruse and interact with Amora Gem owners globally on our Amora forums here.
(Note: For additional details, you may also want to read through our 11/11/11 debut presentation on our message boards here)
Availability :
Amora Ultra H&A is currently available for sale, but due to high demand and low supply, some sizes are periodically sold out. We are working hard to increase our total production by increasing the number of cutting robots this year.
Due to competing patent restrictions from Charles & Colvard related to silicon carbide gems that covers several crystal types including the Amora gem's crystal structure, Amora H&A may not be available in your country until 2015 to as late as 2016 — whenever the related patent expires. Many countries including New Zealand, India, Singapore, etc are however patent-free and you may purchase as soon as we begin sales by signing up on our waiting list at http://BetterThanDiamond.com/notify.
Some common questions:
Can I purchase an Amora Ultra H&A?
What are the dimensions of the various sizes?
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
- Thank you!!! By Unknown on 9th Mar 2016
I finally received my rings today after a slight hold-up by customs. They are GORGEOUS!!! Thank you SO much for ensuring they were perfect before sending them. I couldn't be happier and am simply stunned by how amazingly beautiful the Amora Gem Ultra is in person. Most definitely exceeded my expectations!! - Outstanding! By Stephanie on 28th Jan 2016
I cannot believe the beauty of the the amora gem. I have a round 1.34ct D VS1 and it's absolutely gorgeous. Diamonds pale in comparison when you put it near the amora beauty. If you have any reservations about purchasing the amora - don't. I have moissanites, ashas and diamonds and the amora gem surpasses them all in brilliance and beauty and of course, cost when you take quality into consideration. Diamonds are common and a waste of money in my opinion, i will never buy them again.
I am thinking of upgrading my ring to a larger ct stone, in a radiant cut but I will have to wait for the restock.
Les - God bless you for creating this beautiful stone. And thank-you for NOT marking the price up like the diamond industry. I have a beautiful ring that I didn't have to take a loan out for. Superb! - Beyond my wildest dreams....it puts my diamond in the shade. By Unknown on 15th Nov 2015
I'm a true diamond lover and have a 1.63ct round brilliant engagment ring (triple ex cut). I have seen lots of videos on youtube of the Amora Gem and thought they looked amazing. Decided to take the plunge and ordered a 2.22ct round brillant from (gold and gems). Color G VS2.
The ring arrived today and is beyond my wildest dreams....it puts my diamond in the shade. If your on the fence about this gem, don't be. I don't think I'll ever buy a diamond again. - It is absolutely beautiful. By Unknown on 15th Nov 2015
It is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for creating such a beautiful gem. Words cannot express how shiny this Amora truly is. It is absolutely stunning. - Extremely Happy with Amora Gem By Unknown on 11th Nov 2015
I wanted to let you know that I am beyond pleased with the Amora gem I purchased last month.
It's uniquely beautiful and my jeweler--who hasn't worked with one before--commented on what a quality stone it is.
I've sent it off for custom setting and cannot wait to see the final product.
Your gem has made me a lifetime customer. I own mined diamonds but cannot see myself purchasing another one in the face of 1) the continued ethical issues in the mined diamond industry and 2) all of the options you now offer.
Thank you for your years-long effort in creating such a stunning product.