You can by platinum clad sterling silver rings at many online jewelers. These are simply silver rings with a platinum coating on them.

This protects the silver and prevents it from tarnishing. It also give the ring a nice white finish. It is also a way to have a platinum ring without the expense of have a solid platinum ring. Platinum is more expensive that gold and about 100 times more expensive that silver so you see you can save rather a lot of money by buying a platinum clad sterling silver ring instead of a solid platinum one

As with any jewelry purchase you need to ensure you get what you are paying for. This means doing some due diligence, especially when buying on line. Ensure you pick a genuine dealer or jeweler.

Make sure the jeweler has a fixed address and a contactable phone number. Many on line have no address so you have no idea where they are in the event you have an issue cannot contact them except through a generic feedback page.

You can check if they are a member of the Better Business Bureau also and also a member of a jewelers association.

Ensure that the dealer can give you a certificate to show that the ring is indeed silver and not palladium (a much softer metal although it does look virtually the same) or even, god forbid, nickel.

It is a good idea to know what sort of style of ring you want. Do you want a gemstone in the ring? If so which one? And what size and quality atone do you want?

When you know what you want it is often relatively easy to find the sort of ring you are looking for and finding just the right platinum clad sterling silver rings is not as difficult as it may first seem.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 5th, 2007 at 5:50 pm.