Yellow Gold vs. White Gold, Top 5 Differences 

And then he was too cheap to spring for white gold so he took the yellow instead…

Haha boy you hell

I feel the same way, honestly. One of the pieces of jewelry that I wear daily is an unplated ring that looks decidedly off-white in the right light. To me, though, that just adds to its appeal. I can't imagine a context where "it looks like it's made of literal gold" is a bug rather than a feature. In general, I just don't *get* plating precious metals. They all look nice.

@@NyanCatHerder You actually sound like one of the smartest ones in here, people are like zombies! I concur, no precious metal should be plated w/another...I go a step further, I believe in only wearing 18K to 24K Golden coloured Gold, and .9999 Platinum jewelry, keep metals pure..

I think he meant something different. A lot of mass producing jewelry companies, mostly from Turkey and China, use yellow gold for its better casting and stamping abilities and slightly lower price, then using rhodium plating for achieving white color, mostly Chines companies even using thick silver coating before rhodium plating, so it will take longer to see yellow gold. My point is, most of resellers are buying from those companies and it is common they will sell you a rhodium plated yellow gold, they might not even know it is yellow gold.

@@TheWinkick Thank you for this. It’s very interesting but I don’t think it applies to the jewellers I was in. They were supposedly ’high end’ and saying it applied to all WG produced. I’ve got a ton of stories when it comes to jewellers. Another is when I asked to see if they had any aquamarines and they wordlessly gave me lapis, or when another was trying to sell me a huge pink CZ stating it was a sapphire. I also used to work as a jeweller and my boss had no idea about a lot of things and would feed rubbish to the customers to try and sound good. It just really grates on me since customers look to jewellers for expert knowledge when sometimes all the jeweller cares about is selling, or just don’t know much beyond the very basics and don’t care to learn. Anyway,, sorry to waffle! 😂

Unfortunately he was correct. The introduction of white metals such as palladium or nickel and silver give gold a pale yellow colour which needs to be plated wirh Rhodium to make it white. I have looked at a recent spec. sheet for a white gold alloy and the range is from 53% palladium to 47% gold to 53% palladium,16% silver and 31%gold. These alloys look white but as you can see the trade off is less actual gold. The trend is more for White gold these days, but as my daughter and wife will tell you. It soon turns back to gold if indeed it is made of gold.....which is yellow.

@@nickreeder2979 there’s many stages in creating jewelry, one person doesn’t typically do everything from start to finish. A caster casts a setter sets etc.

I had the same thing happened to me at Tiffany’s. The sales rep told me, “There’s no such thing as white gold.”

Yep

That is the dumbest reason I've ever heard....damnz!! if you're living in that kind of neighborhood.. then just don't wear ANYTHING, or get a nice seXxy Hand-cannon, baby! (',

Also it looks like silver which is pretty cheap in comparison.

Exactly 🥸😎

Yes

Don't be cheap with watered-down gold, keep Gold Golden.....then get pure Platinum if you want white metal! Mene jewelry is where I get pure, not junk metal....

Nickel has been banned from jewelry use in some countries, including the U.K., I believe. Perhaps that's why he didn't mention it.

@@Kelly-pp1et most countries adopted palladium a long time ago for the very reason that nickle is toxic....dunno where you're from but the only nickle white gold alloys would be, would be in pieces pre 1970 or so.

@@Kelly-pp1et not sure what alloy of 14ct you're explaining, but palladium doesn't make up the full balance of your alloying properties...and you're right it is expensive...at the cost of not being toxic or being horribly brittle, or age hardening to the point of fracturing or metal fatigue...i've never used a nickle based white gold and never will 😉

@@bernardblack6997 nickel and zinc are still the most widely used in the world palladium is too expensive for this to be economically feasible. Honestly you've probably used a nickel alloyed gold and never even realized it

@@calebwiggins3042 again, dunno what part of the world you're in but here in Australia, it's industry standard to use palladium in all white gold alloys. I've been a manufacturing jeweller for close to 20 years and have never used anything else. not sure what countries consider a toxic metal to be standard but its definately not something used here.

Ok?

So? Let me rephrase, solid gold above 18K so 21/22/24K is hard to find in the western world (im from Europe same story) asia and africa and the middle east do have plenty gold jewelry any carat.

That why i buy mine pure gold here in Indonesia Borneo

It seems you have to maintain your own judgment against such people. White gold is absolutely gorgeous

It seems you have to maintain your own judgment against such people. White gold is absolutely gorgeous

@@Pentax67 love white gold as well.

yellow fold all the way. I love the traditional look.

Nobody call silver color white because it is silver, I don’t know how those pathetic people could lies themselves. Gold is yellow in human history.

Wow, great, thanks for the information

Yeah I don't get the point of white gold when you have to keep replating it with rhodium to keep the white color when you can just wear silver or platinum since people are going to assume that your jewelry is one of the two anyway and they're both naturally white. Plus if I'm paying good money for something solid gold, I want it to look like gold.

White gold is for the high classes ppl?

I prefer white gold because my skin is cool toned. Yellow gold is more suited to warm skin undertones.

@@jennifermccarthy8493 hey, thanks for the replay. But why gold and not silver then? I'm also cool toned and I wear silver (and have a nice collection :D)

@@AnneKyfee oh I still love and buy silver don't get me wrong but I suppose as I have gotten older I have started to incorporate some more white gold in for special pieces that I invested more money into and want to have for a very long time ...more valuable i suppose and i will pass down to my kids. I will buy white gold when I want to buy a special fine jewellery piece and then silver for more costume jewelry style and demi jewellery

Makes total sense and it makes so much sense...I can't believe hardly anyone says this.

Well I thought they primarily used platinum in white gold, but either way they're both PGM metals.

platinum is its own element (usually 95% platinum 5% alloy, usually ruthenium but some use copper, cobolt or even fine gold)

Platinum can stand alone, no alloys needed.

platinum is a different metal, that's the difference.

Well the main difference is...if you think you're too good for silver..and you want that color..you're better off with platinum. No offense to anyone. I think I'm too good for fake jewelry so...I can be a snob too.

How many karat is your ring?

actually, I think it's because white will show the color of the diamond better. Didn't he say that the strength is about the same?

@@lilyl1517 you are correct. At 1:08 he states the properties are the same, including strength.

@@lilyl1517 Nonsense. Yellow gold trumps all. BUT I do love silver too.

But there are several yellow golds.

You buy diamond?

what is the name of your country?

@@darshanabhattacharyya6939 Russia

Here we love yellow gold Indonesia

Ah yes I'd like to look at rose gold as a WATCH metal, especially because there are so many brands that adopt rose gold. Robert, we've got an unboxing video of the Bremont Argonaut coming soon, will you be watching that? - George

@@BurrellsUk I try to catch all your vids, I'm subscribed.

roughly 92% pure gold

looks like aquamarine?

@@fishtie894 Thank you, Fishtie!

Yes they wouldn't know. I for one can't tell the difference.

So what do you do when the plating wears off the silver?

No what's silly is..you can just use platinum or silver. And be done!

@@PlaywithDaisy my wedding ring is yellow gold and I’ve worn it non stop for eight years and it’s never given me any problems.

how many karat is your ring 14k / 18k? do you wear it in the shower? does it slip off? is it still shiny these days? im just curious. thanks in advance!

@@isabellaquijano5617 my wife hasn’t had the rash in a while but I’m not sure of the karats on hers. My wedding ring is 14K yellow gold and I wear it in the shower and everywhere else. Mine gets a little scuffed up and dirty from working in it but a little bit of metal polish shines it back up pretty nice, it brings back the shine on my wife’s white gold ring too.

MENE has only 24K gold & Pl, and you can take that to a local jeweler and they can set a stone.

Hey Jacocje sells some 22k gold. He has a RU-vid channel. Only recommending him because he seems legit and fair enough prices and I think businesses like his should get recognition.

Have it gold plated

Stainless steel already has similar look to rhosium plating

That must have been an expensive "silver" necklace, you are generous in your gifting - awesome!!

Actually you can get rose gold which is pretty we known. But you can also get green and purple gold. They are extremely rare!☺️

Haha. You wasted some money. I'm just kidding. I mean..I buy silver and yellow gold..and don't bother with white gold. But she probably likes it better cause it's more expensive. I am sure you are on her good side for a long time.

Silver tends to darken overtime, especially if you have more aggresive sweat. White gold dont do that, or atleast not that often

@@sweexie2057 You have to replate it which costs a lot more than taking some baking soda and boiling water and throwing your jewelry in it. So what now?

Did you ever find a solution?

@@digitallocations1423 nope no solutions

I feel like this job would be difficult because you would have to essentially change the entire composition of the band. In other words, the ring would have to be recreated with yellow gold alloy to identically match the current ring. You could look into plating the white gold with yellow gold plating, but that would have the issue of it fading off.

Has your white gold turned to yellow? I.e. was it ordinary yellow gold and Rhodium plated.? Most white gold rings are made this way. I have bought a plating kit to keep my daughter's white gold wedding band white when it fades back to yellow.

they can also heat treat it or chemically change the white to yellow just like lab created gemstones they can resurface gold. my name ring was white gold on the bottom back in 94 . over the years into the millenium it faded in the corners and the jewelry shop resurfaced and made the whole ring back into yellow in 2008 i liked it better the second time and they made look like new i was in tears . so yes it can be done.

Check out rose gold.

@@Crystal-zs1xx I do like rose gold but prefer a champagne coloured metal.. between silver and gold..between warm and cold

@@justinebourke2811 Unfortunately I can't think of anything else. Lol