About Airwaves
I’m Ryland, and Airwaves is my company — not a marketplace storefront with a logo on top. I started it after learning what most jewelry shoppers eventually suspect: two rings can look identical on a hand while one costs ten times more, and the difference is mostly markup, not sparkle.
Moissanite is how you opt out of that. It’s a real gemstone — silicon carbide, grown in a lab — that refracts light at 2.65 to a diamond’s 2.42 and throws more than twice the fire. At 9.25 on the Mohs scale it’s harder than sapphire, so it wears like fine jewelry, because it is.
Every Airwaves piece comes from a verified moissanite factory in Wuzhou, China — the city that cuts most of the world’s lab-grown stones. I work with the factory directly: no importer, no distributor, no mall-kiosk chain each taking their cut along the way. The stones are D-color — the top, colorless grade — GRA certified, and set in solid S925 sterling silver, never plated brass.
That’s the whole trick. Skip the middlemen and the mined-scarcity story, and a certified 2-carat look costs about a tenth of its diamond equivalent. Not because it’s lesser — because you stopped paying for the parts that were never on your hand.
Every moissanite piece ships with its GRA certificate in the box. Free US shipping over $70, delivered in 7 to 15 business days. 30-day returns, no questions. Checkout runs on Shopify, so your payment details never touch our servers. And if you want to ask anything before you buy — sizing, plating, a custom length — I answer the messages myself.