Red Nymph Jewelry
When buying metal jewelry, we’ll find that gold jewelry is simple in pattern, silver jewelry is monotonous in color, platinum jewelry is too expensive, however, the popularity of mosaic gold jewelry solves these problems perfectly, which feature a great varieties of patterns and colors and hard texture.
So, what is mosaic gold composed of? What is mosaic gold marked for identification?
Material of mosaic gold
The so-called mosaic gold is K gold, which is smelted from 75% gold with metal additives like Cu, Al, Ag, Co, Pd, Fe, Cd, Ni etc. Mosaic gold is also called color gold, which is K gold with many colors like purplish red, red, pink, orange, green, blue, brown and black. Mosaic gold is very hard, can be shaped up a lot of mosaic god jewelries of exquisite patterns, such as mosaic gold bracelets, mosaic gold necklaces etc.
Mosaic gold jewelry is a new type of jewelry emerged with the development of jewelry making technology, particularly noble metal electroplating technology in recent years. Mosaic gold jewelry, with bright and diverse colors, endows jewelry designers with more inspirations and stuffs, leading to broader space for the development of K gold jewelry. Presently, a good many international jewelry brands, such as Cartier and Tiffany, have a variety of elegant and exquisite jewelries made of mosaic gold.
Mosaic gold is widely applied, bright in color, and very popular among large group of customers. However, mosaic gold is relatively cost-effective in price, and mosaic gold jewelry is high in cost performance.
Both gold and mosaic gold are marked with unique identity, which aims to enable the customers to make proper judgment and avoid purchase by mistake. Then, how is mosaic gold marked?
Marking of mosaic gold
In international market, mosaic gold is prefixed with “AU” or “G”, which stands for gold purity; mosaic gold is classified to 24K gold, 22K gold, 18K gold, 9K gold etc by gold content. In China’s market, “18K gold” is most common, with gold content of 18×4.1666=75%; mosaic gold jewelry should be stamped with “18K gold” or “Au750/G750”.
In buying mosaic gold jewelry, you may judge whether it’s genuine from the marking on mosaic gold jewelry. Mosaic gold jewelry is a daily wear ornament, but we should keep regular maintenance and cleaning, so as to extend service life of mosaic gold jewelry.
Maintenance of mosaic gold
1、Mosaic gold is alloy, thus it’s unstable in chemical property. Perfume, detergent, bleaching solution, seawater and the like are likely to cause discoloring of mosaic gold, therefore, take off mosaic gold jewelry before cleaning work or swimming, to avoid chemical reaction and scratch.
2、Avoid putting mosaic gold jewelry together with other jewelry, especially diamond, which is hard enough to cause friction and scratch, thus mosaic gold jewelry should be separately stored in a cloth box.
3、In case mosaic gold jewelry loses gloss due to dirt and dust, clean the dirt and dust with soap water, and keep regular cleaning during use.
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