What is 18K Gold?

What is “Pure” Gold?

Pure Gold is 100% Gold, unmixed with any other element. Pure Gold is also commonly referred to as 24 Karat Gold (or 24K Gold).

Gold is mixed with other metals to make jewelry.

Pure Gold is beautiful and rare. It is also relatively soft. In order to make jewelry that is hard and durable we must mix Gold with other metals such as Silver & Copper.

Higher Karat means greater percentage of Gold.

The "Karat" is the unit we use to measure how much Gold is in a ring or a piece of jewelry relative to the other metals that are present. A higher Karat means more Gold in your jewelry. You can see from the image below that 18K Gold contains 75% Gold, while 9K Gold contains half that amount.

What’s Rose Gold made of?

Rose gold is very similar to Yellow Gold, with the exception that a greater proportion of Copper is used in the alloy to bring out a red or "rosy" color. Again, 18K Rose gold contains 75% gold, 14K contains 58% and 10K contains 42%.