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What to Look For In the Best Titanium Rings

When your parents went to look for gold or silver rings, they either knew what they were looking for, or got advice from their parents as to what they ought to be looking for. The quality standards for those precious metals have been around for a long time. But what do you look for in the best titanium rings?

When you’re talking about titanium, you aren’t talking about karats, like gold, or percentages of purity like silver. And while your titanium ring may have diamonds on it, you can’t just judge a ring by the rock it’s attached to.

So, how do you judge the quality of a titanium ring? What should you be looking for, and what should you be looking out for?

Unlike diamonds, color is not an indicator of titanium’s value. In its natural form, titanium is an off-white or bright gray color, but rings are available in many different colors, including blue, black and gold. These different shades do not indicate a higher or lower quality of metal, however. They are simply cosmetic differences in the appearance of the ring.

Unlike silver, the percentage of purity is not a consideration in your titanium jewellery. Most titanium rings will be 99% pure titanium or higher, so anything advertised as lower than that should be viewed as suspect, as it may not be true titanium. Titanium does not require any sort of coating or protective plating, so any retailer that offers these options may be worried about their inferior product showing signs of wear or tarnish – things that never happen to true titanium jewellery.

Another way to detect fake titanium jewellery is by the settings and sizing offered by the jeweller. Titanium is a very hard metal, meaning that certain styles of settings cannot be created. Also, this hardness means that a titanium ring cannot be sized up or down.

The other way to test the purity of your titanium ring is to hold a magnet to it. Titanium is a paramagnetic metal, which means, in simple terms, that it is far less magnetic than cheaper steel alloys.

Weight is another good way to judge whether your titanium ring is truly made of its advertised metal. A titanium ring should be lighter than a similarly-sized counterpart made of white gold or stainless steel.

As for cost, the raw materials that go into a titanium ring are comparable to a lower karat of gold, but due to the extra costs incurred in the creation of the best titanium rings, the final price will be comparable to a high quality gold ring. The difference, rather than financial, will be in durability, weight and originality – the last one, impossible to put a price tag on, but incredibly valuable.

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