Specification

Stones: 5 pieces 2x3,2x4, 1x5mm round Pink Tourmaline stones

Color: Purple Pink

Material: The Circle is a platinum-plated 925 sterling silver Circle

Dimensions: 20mmx 18mm X 6mm

Weight: 17.0ct total Weight

950 platinum plating

Josephine Leroy works with a 950 platinum plating for her jewellery. The high layer thickness guarantees a long durability.

Platinum is as rare as no other precious metal. Platinum is usually offered in the alloy 950. This alloy consists of 95% platinum and 5% of a metal admixture and is particularly hard and resistant. Due to its exceptional toughness, there is virtually no abrasion on the jewellery pieces - the material merely shifts sideways. Moreover, hardly any other material can hold stones as securely as platinum.

Description

We only use natural gemstones which are cut to size in a complex process and sorted by hand in a multi-level selection process.

After the first multiple sorting, the stones are cut and polished into a brilliant shape, then they are sorted again according to size, colour and purity.

To build the stones into a circle you have to find 5 stones which differ optically as little as possible. This requires a very well trained eye, which can detect the smallest differences.

When the stones are assembled for a circle, they are carefully placed in the setting by hand and fixed like a diamond.

As a rule, a maximum of 1% of the respective raw stone can be used for our precious objects. To achieve the highest possible quality, all work is done by hand and by experienced specialists.

Tourmaline is a complex silicate that contains boron. It shows a wider range of colours than any other gemstone. In fact, it exists in every color of the spectrum. Each stone of different colors has a different name. Pink Tourmaline is also known as "Rubellite", which is the Latin word for red. At one time there was a different name for each Tourmaline color, but now they are all commonly called Tourmalines, with only the name of the color as a prefix. Pink Tourmaline is the rarest member of the Tourmaline family. It is rarer than ruby in fact! The red colour is caused by impurities in the middle of the stone. Much Tourmaline appears as beautifully shaped, elongated crystals with a strikingly rounded triangular shape in cross section. Tourmaline varies in its hardness. Some stones are a little below some of the quartz stones, others are roughly equivalent to emeralds. Like amethyst and emerald, a tourmaline lasts thousands of years.