Jewelry is also subject to fashion trends, which are reflected in the shapes and sizes of jewelry, as well as in the color of stones and metals. Fashion dominates everyone, even gold - the king of metals has been transformed under the influence of fashion trends. Jewelers learned how to make white gold long ago, and it quickly gained popularity, supplanting yellow gold.

It is difficult to say when the first experiments with shades began, but platinum played the main role in changing the color of gold jewelry. Platinum has all the virtues of gold and even surpasses it, but at the same time it is much more difficult to process. The melting point is significantly higher, therefore, jewelers did not immediately learn how to make platinum jewelry.

Platinum is stronger than gold, diamonds hold and look better in it. Thanks to these qualities, platinum won the love of jewelers, and from the beginning of the 20th century, the best jewelry began to be made from platinum. Only not all jewelers could successfully work with platinum, and not all buyers could afford platinum jewelry with diamonds from Cartier.



After a while, white gold appears, white so much that it is already difficult to distinguish it from platinum. At the same time, white gold is cheaper, it is easier to work with it, and its qualities are made due to correctly selected additives Jewelry no worse than platinum.

For many years, white gold, along with platinum, remains popular, only after the Second World War, yellow gold returns to the jewelry collection. After the war, people wanted to return to traditional luxury, this was reflected in Christian Dior's collections, yellow gold jewelry and other manifestations of fashion and beauty.

Only in the XX century, everything began to develop rapidly, scientific and technological progress, new technologies and the beginning of space exploration returned to fashion the white shine of platinum, which was combined with the chrome shine of parts of spaceships and all the most modern.

Yellow gold again lost its popularity among the masses, remaining in the realm of real jewelry for the elite. Many authentic jewelery pieces have always been made of yellow gold, but most of the available pieces of jewelry changed color in different directions. Goldsmiths painted gold white, greenish, red. Sometimes in one piece of jewelry, 2-3 and even 4 shades of gold were combined at once.




Personally, I have always liked yellow gold, not necessarily the highest standard. Of course, it's nice to have a 958 ring, it shines like the sun, but such a ring is very vulnerable, it is easy to scratch it. In addition, it is difficult to make something practical from gold of the highest standard, in addition to rings.

Therefore, one must understand that yellow gold in chains, earrings and other products is not at all the same gold that was in the crowns of the great rulers of the past and beautiful princesses. Modern yellow gold in jewelry will almost always have a lower fineness, most often 750 or otherwise 18 carats. This test is the best combination of beauty and quality.

Quality means the reliability of locks on earrings and brooches, the durability of chain links and other products. 24-carat fineness is fine, but not very practical.



Fashion in the 21st century gives us freedom of choice, and let's hope that this freedom will not decrease further. Therefore, you can safely buy chains, earrings, rings and other products made of yellow gold, they will be relevant until the end of this world or until scientists learn how to synthesize gold from atoms of any materials, for example, from silicon or oxygen.

When this happens, we will live in a completely different world, but for now yellow gold is an ideal measure of material values, decoration and investment tool.