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What exactly is waterproof or water resistant jewelry? Why is it important for jewelry to be considered water resistant? How to identify truly water resistant jewelry?

One of our customers asked me all these questions and that's amazing how the internet is full of misleading information to customers.

First of all, the same importance you give to a waterproof watch you have to give to jewelry. While a watch can damage its mechanical or digital functionality, jewelry can be damaged by changing color to greenish or even black. You may find some spots in your jewelry that will make you feel frustrated.

When anything like that happens, it means basically two things:

Your jewelry is not gold filled or even truly gold plated. It's probably a custom jewelry or bijoux.

Your jewelry has not enough gold to protect the base metal from contaminating the jewelry surface.

The terminology "waterproof" in the gold filled or even gold plated market is just to make you understand that the jewelry has enough gold to protect against any possible damage such as: tarnish, greenish color contamination and spots.

Whenever a jewelry is considered "waterproof" or "water resistant" means a quality product, that even under water it keeps its original appearance. Nonetheless, we recommend the following for long life quality:

Whenever you have any direct contact with cosmetics, lotions or creams in your skin, because of their chemical composition it is better to avoid direct contact with the jewelry.

If for any reason any harsh chemical contacts the jewelry surface, just wash it off with neutral soap and use a hair dryer to really dry out the piece completely. Take a half foot distance when using the hair dryer.

If you go to the beach, because of the salt of the sea, we recommend the same process in step 2.

It is imperative to keep the jewelry dry to avoid future spots.