Saturday, May 15, 2010

Your Online Jewelry Mall

Online Jewelry Mall  


With more online shopping malls opening every day it would be only common that a Online Jewelry Mall could be found.


What is a online mall or online jewelry mall?  Some online malls are only a single store calling itself a mall but there are some real malls on the Internet.  A real Internet mall provides its customers with a list of stores not just a store.  It would be quite disappointing to go shopping at a mall to only find one single store so why call it a mall.  Online malls or online jewelry mall should consist of a list of stores not single store!.


The three types of Jewelry 


Precious Jewelry 
There are basically three types of jewelry the first is precious jewelry that consist of genuine gold silver and precious stones. Precious Stones come in a variety of shapes , colors and prices depending on the quality and the stone itself.


Gold comes in a variety of qualitys from 24K to 10K,  24K is pure uncut gold 22K is 22 parts gold and two parts metal.  Gold is a softer metal that can be easily bent or broken some metals are added to give strength 22K is popular in the Middle East 18K is 18 parts gold and six parts metal 14K is 14 parts gold and 10 parts metal and 10K 10 parts gold and 14 parts metal.


18K and 14K are more popular and rings because of its higher metal content that gives it more durability and strength. 10K is also popular and rings 10K is more popular for its price because of the lower gold content it can be sold at a list price.


Semiprecious Jewelry


Some people consider 10K gold to be a semiprecious jewelry because of its lower content of gold but most still consider it as precious jewelry.  Semiprecious jewelry mostly consist of lower quality stones and CZ ( man-made diamonds ) set in silver or 9K, 10K gold.  This has the appeal and look of the real deal but at a lot less price.


Semiprecious Jewelry also consist of Quartz, Onyx, Amber and other semiprecious stones and is often combined with sterling silver, 10K gold and go over silver.


Gold over silver became very popular in the mid to late 90s it had the appeal and look up solid gold.  Gold over silver consisted of 20 mills and up goldplating over silver.


One mill is equal to one thousands of a inch - it would take 1000 mills to equal 1 inch thickness.


Fashion Jewelry


Fashion jewelry is very popular and inexpensive in most cases some fashion jewelry can be somewhat pricey.  High quality fashion jewelry and designer fashion jewelry often use higher qualities of metals that is less sensitive to the skin with hypoallergenic and sterling Silver Post and clips.

Fashion jewelry can be very inexpensive but the quality of the metals and products used are very low and most low end fashion jewelry are manufactured in China and third world countries.

At one time the State Road Island used to be the fashion jewelry capital but could not compete with manufacturing cost from China and other Third World countries.  Some manufacturers still exist in Rhode Island and still produce high-quality fashion jewelry.


Watches

Watches are also a part of the fashion trend and comes in a variety of styles and prices.  High-end watches consist of gold and silver precious metals and precious stones.
Most watches are used for the common purpose of telling time but some can make a fashion statement.  There are low and high quality watches with a wide price range just like its counterpart jewelry.