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Article: Rembrandt adds white gold to palette.
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- Modern Jeweler
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Need proof how important white metal has become to fine jewelry? One of the world's largest lines of charms is now also available in 14k white gold.
Adding white gold to the Rembrandt Charms line was no easy task. The company's thousands of charms, bracelets, and jump rings are created from 100 different kinds of gold casting grain, strip stock, and wire in different sizes and tempers, which all had to match in color and also perform under stress as well as yellow gold.
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To meet those criteria, the Buffalo, New York, company had to create special white gold alloys that would wear properly over the lifetime of heavy use ...