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How to Choose Platinum, Palladium, Or White Gold For a

Posted on | December 16, 2009 | No Comments

How to Choose Platinum, Palladium, Or White Gold For a Wedding Band

Platinum is often thought about the best there is, and with good cause. It can make diamonds glitter like no other ore can and is much harder than white gold. But if you can’t afford the platinum price tag, than palladium is a good option to study.

The main benefit of palladium over platinum wedding rings is price. Platinum is a much more dense metal than both gold and palladium, and thus weighs a lot more. Usually, you are paying for weight with precious metals. They are most often sold on commodity markets by the troy ounce. While the volume may be the same for both a platinum, white gold, and palladium ring, the weight and density of the platinum ring will be almost double, along with the price tag.

Both palladium and platinum offer superb stone security when setting diamonds, much improve than that of white gold. The prongs have mere minimal spring back and both metals seem to wear well for this application.

Wedding rings made of palladium and platinum are also both very pure metals, customarily 95% pure with the remaining 5% being ruthenium or iridium. This is great for those who need hypo-allergenic rings, as both metals will be far less likely to cause allergic reaction than these of white gold. Palladium is normally marked 950PD while platinum carries the mark PT950.

In our experience, both metals wear well. Palladium is a artlessly white metal, just as platinum is, and will look shiny and new as long as you clean and polish is regularly. Platinum also requires maintenance, even though not as often. However, the maintenance is more intensive and takes longer when you get it done. Over many years the cost will be a wash, but platinum will likely save you a few trips to the jewelery shop.

Chances are that if you’re looking for a palladium or platinum wedding band you don’t want to study white gold. However, there are some options that have presented themselves with recent technology that give white gold the same advantages as palladium and platinum with a similar price tag. These new white golds stay white and don’t need rhodium plating. They are often referred to as precise white gold rings. Our favored one is the new X1 white gold from Stuller. This is available by request in most our gold bands at Wedding Rings Forever. This ore ranks just below platinum on the “whiteness” scale and just above palladium.

For now it still seems that platinum is a superior prize for luster and wear. It is also a completely inert ore that will not react, significant no oxidation or tarnish. However, the new X1 gold and 950PD palladium will certainly be competitors coming into the future.

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