{"id":134,"date":"2026-09-29T21:43:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/2026\/09\/29\/gold-or-platinum\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:43:49","slug":"gold-or-platinum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/2026\/09\/29\/gold-or-platinum\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow gold, white gold, rose gold or platinum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All four of our metals are precious and made to last a lifetime. The differences are colour, weight and how they age.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">At a glance<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Metal<\/th><th>Colour<\/th><th>Feel<\/th><th>Upkeep<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>18k yellow gold<\/td><td>Warm, classic<\/td><td>Medium weight<\/td><td>Polish every few years<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18k white gold<\/td><td>Bright white (rhodium plated)<\/td><td>Medium weight<\/td><td>Re-plate every 1\u20132 years, free with lifetime care<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18k rose gold<\/td><td>Soft pink, deepens with age<\/td><td>Medium weight<\/td><td>Very durable thanks to copper<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Platinum<\/td><td>Naturally white<\/td><td>Dense and heavy<\/td><td>Develops a soft patina; refinish on request<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our advice<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you work with your hands, platinum or rose gold will wear best. If you love warm skin tones, yellow gold. If you want bright white sparkle around a diamond, white gold or platinum \u2014 platinum costs more but never needs re-plating.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What really differs between our four metals \u2014 colour, weight, durability and upkeep \u2014 and which one suits the way you live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_aurex_hide_title":"","_aurex_title_style":"","_aurex_title_bg":0,"_aurex_transparent_header":"","_aurex_content_spacing":"","_aurex_sidebar":"","footnotes":"","_aurex_seo_title":"","_aurex_seo_desc":"","_aurex_seo_focus":"","_aurex_seo_canonical":"","_aurex_seo_noindex":"","_aurex_seo_nofollow":"","_aurex_seo_og_title":"","_aurex_seo_og_desc":"","_aurex_seo_og_image":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[70,69],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","tag-care","tag-metals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aurex.amanazkar.com\/fine-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}