Having a fascination with diamonds is effectively human nature. Even long before we were able to cut and polish them, they were regarded as precious stones. Now we can not only unlock the inner beauty of natural diamonds, and show their fire and scintillation by machining them in different cuts, but new technology allows for us to even create diamonds in a lab.

While lab-grown diamonds have had a vail of controversy, they hold incredible potential, particularly for the watch industry. When you grow diamonds, you not only can get perfect clarity but also manipulate other aspects of the diamond. It can be used as sapphire currently is in watch design, only even better, as diamond is a harder material.

Making lab-grown diamonds is not an easy process just yet, but by experimenting with them now, the results are becoming all the more valuable for the future. TAG Heuer is doing just that, embracing this new technology and applying it on the Carrera Plasma.
My personal favorite aspect of the Carrera Plasma is the crown, which is machined out of a lab-grown diamond and shows the true potential of the technology. It also compliments the lab-grown diamonds that are set in the black anodized aluminum case. They are seemingly set at random, making them look reminiscent of the walls of a futuristic diamond mine. TAG Heuer brings the theme into the dial design by covering it with a polycrystalline diamond plate on which the hour markers are made from baguette-cut lab-grown...