Matched Pair Lab-Grown Diamond Stud Earrings 6.3 mm, 14K White Gold
Product code: BT-12183
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A pair of 14K white gold stud earrings, each set with a 6.3 mm round lab-grown diamond — the size commonly called one carat — held in a slim six-prong basket setting with rounded prong tips. The two stones are matched in diameter, height and cut proportions; each comes with its own international grading certificate. Sold as a complete pair, stones included.
Jewelry details
A pair of solitaire earrings has nowhere to hide. No cluster of stones to distract, no shape for the eye to look at instead, no pattern to cover a clumsy spot. Just two diamonds and just enough gold to hold them — so whatever is right, and whatever is wrong, shows completely.
Finding one beautiful stone is a matter of budget. Finding two identical ones is a different matter entirely.
The hard part isn't the stone — it's needing two
This is something almost nobody mentions when selling solitaire earrings, yet it is the whole story of this piece.
Solitaire ring
Needs one stone you love. Pick the one you like and you're done. There's nothing right beside it to compare it with.
Solitaire earrings
Need two almost identical stones — and the person facing you sees both at the same time, about a hand-span apart across your face.
Those two stones have to match in more ways than people expect: matching diameter, matching height, matching cut proportions so both sides sparkle the same way, and matching color so neither side looks warmer than the other. Get just one of these off and the eye catches it immediately — even if nobody can say exactly what's different.
This pair is made from two round 6.3 mm stones, the size commonly called one carat each. Their actual measurements: one is 6.39 – 6.43 mm, the other 6.36 – 6.41 mm. A difference of three hundredths of a millimetre — thinner than a split hair. The height of the stones differs by only two hundredths of a millimetre.
Each stone comes with its own international grading certificate, not one shared certificate for the pair. That is the only way to prove each individual stone later, rather than just proving "this pair of earrings".
Six prongs, and why earring prongs are different from ring prongs
Each diamond sits in a six-prong basket setting. Six instead of four has two well-known advantages: the holding force is spread more evenly so the stone is less likely to turn, and if one prong wears or breaks, five are still holding — the stone isn't lost. In return, with six prongs each one is made slimmer, covering less of the stone than four wide prongs.
But there is something specific to earrings that ring buyers never encounter: earring prongs run into completely different things. A ring knocks against keyboards, steering wheels and bag handles. Earrings sit right next to your hair, and all day they meet hair, wool scarves, mask straps, your collar when you pull a top over your head, and your pillowcase if you forget to take them off.
A prong with a raised or sharp tip acts like a hook. It snags hair and breaks it, pulls threads from knitwear, and if it catches hard enough, the prong bends. On this pair the tips of all six prongs are rounded and pressed tight against the edge of the stone, and running a finger around them you won't feel a single rough spot — a detail worth checking by hand right at the counter.
Take the earrings off before brushing your hair. That's when the prongs get pulled hardest all day.
When pulling a high-neck top over your head, cover your ears with your hands — a one-second habit that saves quite a bit of trouble.
Once a month, run a fingertip around the six prongs. Anywhere that catches your finger has lifted — bring it in to be pressed back, don't wait.
The same stone always looks bigger on the ear than on the hand
This surprises many people, but the explanation is simple: the eye doesn't read absolute size, it reads proportion relative to what's around it.
A 6.4 mm stone on a hand sits among fingers, knuckles and the whole hand — a wide context, so it looks moderate. Put the same stone on an earlobe, an area only about one and a half to two centimetres wide, and it takes up nearly a third of the space. The stone didn't get bigger; the background got smaller.
If you're torn between two stone sizes, remember this: the size that looks "just enough" when you try it on your hand will usually look a little larger on the ear. The surest way is still to try them on in front of a mirror and step back two paces — don't decide by looking at the stone in the palm of your hand.
The setting here is kept as minimal as possible: the whole pair, stones included, weighs under one and a half grams. The basket is open, not closed at the bottom, and the prongs are slim — from the front you see almost only the diamond, with the gold stepping right back. For a piece with only one stone to look at, that's the right choice: every extra gram of gold competes with the diamond for attention.
Worth planning for: losing one earring
We'll be upfront here, because this is the real downside of a solitaire piece. With multi-stone earrings, if you lose one, a jeweler can make a new one and almost nobody will notice. A certified solitaire is not that easy.
To replace it, you have to find a stone that matches the remaining one in diameter, height, cut proportions and color — exactly the matching problem from the start of this page, but now with an extra constraint: the other stone is already fixed and can't be chosen again. The market doesn't always have a matching stone available. This is the hardest piece in your jewelry box to replace.
Keep both grading certificates safe. Each stone's number is micro-inscribed on its girdle and can be checked when needed.
Every time you put them on, check that the backs are secure. A loose back is the number one reason earrings go missing.
Take them off before sleeping and before showering. Soap makes the backs slippery, and pillows bend the posts.
Never take your earrings off while standing over the sink. It sounds funny, but the drain is where earrings disappear most often.
Sold as a complete pair, both center stones included. Not a setting only, and not sold individually — you receive the full left and right pair with two separate grading certificates.
Both stones are lab-grown diamonds, hardness 10 on the Mohs scale, cut and graded to the same international standards.
Buy at Thảo Linh
A solitaire is something you have to see with your own eyes — photos can't capture the sparkle, and the sparkle is its entire value. You're welcome to visit our showroom at 120 Pham Thi Tanh, Chanh Hung Ward, Ho Chi Minh City to look closely and try them on. For advice beforehand, call 0945 006 001.
12-month warranty, with free lifetime prong checks, polishing and ultrasonic cleaning — for a solitaire, regular cleaning matters more than anything, because a thin film of oil under the stone is enough to dull half its sparkle. Our trade-in policy is published at fixed rates, so you know the numbers from the day you buy.
