What type of platinum do you use?
For Platinum jewelry that we have designed, we use 95% platinum and 5% ruthenium. Most of our pieces are our own design, including all the various reproduction rings and our Timeless Halo series.
- Palladium - Facts and info on our favorite precious metal for jewelry
Palladium is a platinum group metal that has been in use for jewelry since 1939. With platinum skyrocketing in price the past two years, palladium has seen a resurgence in jewelry use as it offers similar benefits to platinum, but at pricing comparable to 18k white gold. Ironically, palladium ...
- Does palladium require rhodium plating?
Palladium is naturally a beautiful white metal, and thus never requires any type of plating. Rhodium plating is normally done to white gold in order to make it a true white color, as white gold naturally has a yellow tint to it (white gold is primarily yellow gold mixed with a white metal..henc ...
- Do you rhodium plate your white gold?
Yes, we always rhodium plate our white gold jewelry, such as rings, earrings and pendants. The reason we do this is because white gold is really a combination of a white metal (normally nickel) mixed in with yellow gold. The white metal helps to whiten out the yellow gold, but compared to a nati ...
- What alloys do you use to make your platinum?
We combine either ruthenium or iridium with platinum to make our platinum for our jewelry. The typical percentage is 95% platinum, 5% ruthenium. We *never* use cobalt to create our platinum, as cobalt tends to oxidize very quickly and produce darker, duller platinum. Both ruthenium and iridium ...
