Monday, January 11, 2010

Gold Watch and Rhodium Plating for Watch Bands and Rings



Whether or not a watch band will have an electro plate depends entirely on the band. If it is made of stainless steel, most jewelers do not have the ability to board adequate bandwidth. If they can do it at all, the board would probably be very thin and wear out quickly. Moreover, if the band has steel parts in it, electroplating solutions can be damaged. I believe it would be very difficult to find a jeweler who would try to make the watch band.

There is a chance a jeweler can send the band out for plating, and the ring. This "creating jobs" that usually go to a company that specializes in working with metal plating equipment and high-level experience to do a good job and render a plate thick enough for durability.

One company is Red Sky Plating. Jewelers can send items for this company for estimates and get the job done correctly.

To gold plate the ring would not be difficult for any jeweler with gold plating solutions. Keep in mind, the thickness of the plate and durability can not be assured with the most jewelry store plating services done at home. For best results, I would suggest the ring be sent to the mentioned company or a similar company. You could have a jeweler gold plate the ring and then "try" to see how the hard surface yellow.

Various items sold to "consumers" for coloring metals and adding a microscopic silver or gold color generally do not last long and are not effective in its entirety, my humble thought.

The "dip" The process is called "rhodium plating. Rhodium is a precious metal coating is a less expensive alternative to platinum. (There is no white gold in nature.) Conditioning plated long wear and may not need to be redone every year, depending on your wearing habits. If you were a customer at my local Zales lining would be only about $ 24.00.

One nice thing about rhodium plating is that it offers an option to people normally allergic to nickel in low quality of gold. The plating provides a barrier that allows many of these people to use 10k and 14k jewelry.

Typically, in marking, the numbers represent the decimal for the quality of gold.

For example, 375 or 375 is equal to 375 pieces of gold in 1000 or 9ct. If this were a genuine brand, then 750 or 750 would be 750 gold pieces from 1000 that is 18k.

777 does not fit any brand gold standard (with a little over 18k if it were) so I suspect it may be a makers mark or design number.
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