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14K CZ Engagement Rings
Reasonably priced, delightful 14K gold CZ engagement rings are affordable and beautiful. They are a perfect way to celebrate an engagement as long as the bride to be is told truthfully that she is getting real gold with Cubic Zirconia so you can offer her the beauty she deserves. (If the bride-to-be is told the ring is a diamond, when it is in fact not, problems occur due to the lack of truth.)
In 1937, German scientists used a heating method that rose to 5,000 degrees followed by a specific cooling time to create the world.s first flawless crystals. By the 1980s, the resulting Cubic Zirconia then created by Swarovski & Co. had set the jewelry world afire by offering fabulous-looking jewelry at affordable prices.
The Cubic Zirconia allows for the appeal of genuine diamonds for customers who can.t, or prefer not to, spend that much. Weighing 75% more than a loose diamond, the CZ does provide less sparkle, yet it can hardly be detected by the uninformed eye. Cubic Zirconia stones at 10x magnification will show you their facets, yet their intersections are not as straight as a diamond.s. Cubic Zirconia is often set in gold to enhance its value and permanence. When combined, gold and Zirconia are a perfect pair for men.s and women.s rings.
The quality of jeweler's gold is determined in karats, which are actually in units of 24ths. Therefore, pure gold is 24-karat or 100 percent gold, 18-karat is 75 percent gold, 14-karat is 58.5 percent gold, etc.
Gold jewelry is valued with respect to its karat weight or purity. A carat, or karat, is 1/24th part of pure gold. This pure gold is often alloyed with other metals (copper, silver, zinc, nickel) to increase its hardness and decrease its cost.
White and rose gold do not occur naturally. Gold itself is found with only one color: yellow. Every other "color" is a mixture of pure 24K yellow gold with different other metals. The percentage of the other metals (copper, zinc, silver, and/or nickel) creates the different shades of gold.
Rose gold is produced by increasing the copper-colored alloys and decreasing any silver-colored additives. Increasing lighter alloys of silver, nickel, zinc and copper will tone down the yellow gold. The resulting 14K white gold has the same amount of gold as 14K yellow gold but is almost white in color, although it still carries very slight yellowish tint.
No matter the color, Cubic Zirconia set in 14K gold has a stable environment that will keep it safe through the generations.
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