specification

Stones: 9 pieces 3mm round green tourmaline and 9 pieces 3mm crystal stones

Colour: striking green

Material: The Circle is a 950 Platinum Circle

Dimensions: 20mm X 6mm

Weight: 14.3ct total Weight

950 platinum

Josephine Leroy works with 950 platinum for his jewellery.

Platinum is more rare than any other precious metal. Platinum is usually offered in the alloy 950. This 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-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 build 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 arranged 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 noble 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 striking colour are the characteristics that meet our quality standards.

The typical colour of a tourmaline is striking green transparent. It is available in all shades.

Tourmaline is a complex silicate containing boron. It shows a wider range of colours than any other gemstone. In fact it exists in every colour of the spectrum. Each different coloured 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 colour, but now they are all commonly called Tourmalines, with only the name of the colour 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 hardness. Some stones are slightly under some of the quartz stones, others are roughly equivalent to emeralds. Like amethyst and emerald, a tourmaline lasts thousands of years.