Gold plated jewelry offers a budget-friendly option to buying pure gold jewelry. It gives you the look and the style without the high price tag that comes with gold. Gold plating comes in varying levels of quality, largely depending on the thickness and purity of the gold coating, the base metal used for the piece and the quality of craftsmanship.

What is gold plating?

Gold plating is a process where a thin layer of gold is bonded onto a base metal. Plating is quite common in the jewelry world, with gold and rhodium being two popular types.

All our gold plated jewelry has a layer of 14 carat gold plating over 925 Sterling Silver or high-quality jeweler’s brass. We add also an extra protective layer over the gold plating so that your jewelry is optimally protected against scratches and damages.

Gold Plated Jewelry Comparison

 

Check how to keep your gold and silver plated jewelry beautiful here

Interesting Facts:

This process was invented by an Italian chemist, Luigi Brugnatelli in 1805, the first person to plate a thin coat of gold onto silver. In electroplating, a clean metal object is submerged in a solution called an electrolyte that is supersaturated with the metal to be plated. A positive lead is attached to a sheet of metal that will supply the solution and the negative lead is attatched to the object. When a low voltage direct current is activated, metal ions travel through the solution and are deposited to the object.

The jewelry industry catalog will illustrate a wide variety of electroplating solutions available. The chemistry of plating is precise and demanding and focuses on these solutions.

 

Tags: materials