The bezel-setting is one of the few jewelry techniques where the sequence is the security (strip shaped, soldered, burnished) each step depending on the one before it, in an order that is crafted and time-tested.
Industry Insight
A lab-grown diamond is truly a diamond, sharing all the same exact properties. The laboratory just replicated the geological process, compressing the timeline from billions of years to weeks. The result is identical. The origin is the only variable.
Style Notes
The leverback is built for earrings that move, such as drop and dangle designs, where the element hangs forward and the closure needs to keep the wire threaded through the piercing through all of it, which is exactly what the hinged locked loop does.