Jewellery San Diego

Jewellery is a wonderful gift to celebrate life, love and memories. For your grandchild’s birth, daughter or son's graduation, a wedding anniversary or Christmas giving a piece of jewellery completes the celebration. It is a gift that is a true investment that you can pass it onto future generations. It is not hard to find what you are looking for in the way of jewellery in San Diego. We have beautifully crafted pieces to add to anyone's collection.

When designing a piece of jewellery, gems, coins, or other precious items are often included, and they are typically set into precious metals. American and European gold jewellery is made of an alloy of gold. The purity of the gold must be stated in carats which are indicated on the item by a number followed by the letter K. American gold jewellery must be of at least a ten carat purity, and is usually found up to eighteen carats. Platinum alloys range from ninety to ninety five per cent purity. And the silver used in jewellery is usually sterling silver, or ninety two per cent fine silver. All of the metals mentioned here can be found when looking for jewellery in San Diego.

Gold is the most malleable and pliable metal; a single gram of gold can be beaten into a sheet of one square meter! Gold readily forms alloys with many other metals and this can be used to increase its hardness or to create exotic colours. By adding copper to gold one would get a reddish metal, iron added would turn it blue and the addition of platinum makes it white. Heat, moisture, oxygen, and most corrosive agents have very little chemical effect on gold, making it well-suited for use in coins and jewellery, San Diego.

Among the other materials commonly used in jewellery are enamelled glass; carved or turned wood; shells and bone; ivory and beads. The beads may be large or small, the smallest type of beads used is known as seed beads; these are the beads used for the "woven" style of beaded jewellery. Glass and glass bead making techniques by Murano and Venetian glass masters developed crystalline glass, enamelled glass with threads of gold multicoloured glass. As early as the 13th century, Murano glass and Murano beads were popular for use in jewellery and there is a wide range to be found of bead jewellery in San Diego.

Diamonds historically were first mined in India. Currently, Africa, Australia, and Canada rank among the world most important sources. Although diamonds are considered the most prized of all gemstones, many other precious stones are used for jewellery. San Diego has some man-made gems used in place of natural gems; an example is the cubic zirconia, used in place of the diamond.