Platinum Green Tourmaline Circle Pendant

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This platinum pendant consists of 18 round 3mm green tourmaline stones. Circle diameter 20mm (Please note: chains are optional)

The natural stones are cut gemstones, in best quality and in best colour.

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Stones: 18 pieces 3mm round green tourmaline

Colour: striking green

Material: The Circle is a 950 platinum

Dimensions: 20mm X 6mm

Weight: 12.3ct total Weight

950 platinum

Josephine Leroy works with 950 platinum for his jewellery. Platinum is as rare as no other precious metal. Mostly platinum is 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.

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We use only natural gemstones that are cut to size in a complex process and sorted by hand in a multi-stage 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. In order to fit the stones into a circle, 18 stones must be found that differ as little as possible in appearance. This requires a very well trained eye, which can detect the finest differences. When the stones are assembled for a circle, they are carefully placed by hand into the setting 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. As few foreign inclusions as possible and a concise colour are the characteristics which correspond to our quality standard. The typical colour of a tourmaline is, green, transparent. It is available in all shades.

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 differently colored stone 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 indeed! 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.