Material Guide

Real materials. No shortcuts.

Our Material Standard

Every AnkieJoy piece is built from materials chosen for one reason: they hold up to daily life.

  • Solid gold, through and through — never brass, never a mystery alloy.

  • Moissanite and lab-grown diamonds, cut for everyday brilliance.

  • Posts and backs engineered to be light enough to forget you're wearing them.

  • No plating to wear off, no coating to chip — what you see is what's really there

Stone Guide

Our jewelry features premium moissanite and lab-grown diamonds, chosen for their exceptional brilliance and everyday durability.

Lab-Grown Diamonds

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Moissanite

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Lab-Grown Diamond or Moissanite?

Side by side, the difference comes down to sparkle and budget — not durability. Both are cut to the same precision and built for daily wear.

Lab-Grown Diamonds

Lab-Grown Diamonds

Chemically, physically, and optically identical to mined diamonds – grown in a controlled setting rather than mined from the earth, with the same hardness and fire.

Moissanite

Moissanite

A distinct gemstone in its own right, prized for even more sparkle than diamond thanks to its higher refractive index, at a more accessible price point.

The Science Behind Every Stone

Deep within the earth, natural diamonds take billions of years to form — carbon compressed under extraordinary heat and pressure until it crystallizes into stone. Our lab-grown diamonds recreate that same process inside a controlled chamber, condensing millennia of natural formation into a matter of weeks.

We grow using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), one of the two industry-standard methods for creating lab-grown diamonds. A thin diamond seed is placed inside a sealed chamber and heated to several hundred degrees Celsius. Carbon-rich gas is introduced and ionized into plasma, allowing pure carbon atoms to bond to the seed one atomic layer at a time until a rough crystal forms — chemically and structurally identical to a diamond pulled from the earth.

Once grown, every stone is cut and polished by hand, to the same grading standards used for mined diamonds. And because it's grown rather than excavated, the process quietly sidesteps the land disruption that comes with traditional mining — without changing anything about the stone itself.

By the Numbers

Lab-grown diamonds share every physical property with natural, mined diamonds — moissanite is its own gemstone with a distinct set of numbers.

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Lab-Grown Diamond Natural Diamond Moissanite
Chemical composition Carbon (C) Carbon (C) Silicon carbide (SiC)
Hardness (Mohs) 10 10 9.25
Refractive index 2.42 2.42 2.65
Dispersion 0.044 0.044 0.104

Metal Guide

10K & 14K Solid Gold

Crafted for everyday wear, our 10K and 14K solid gold jewelry is gold through and through — not plated, not filled.

10K gold is 41.7% pure gold, 14K is 58.5% pure gold, each alloyed with a small mix of other metals for added strength and everyday durability. The result is a warm, lasting shine that resists tarnishing far better than plated alternatives — a piece built to be worn, not babied.

It’s also the metal we build our posts and backs from: light enough that your ears forget they’re there by hour three, not just hour one.

For cleaning, storage & polishing tips, see our Care Guide →

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