Ninfa Pendant Necklace
Alex Jona design collection, hand crafted in Italy, 18 karat rose gold chain pendant necklace set with 25.46 carats of Burmese moonstone and 18.29 carats of pink tourmalines.
Metal: 18k rose gold
Width: 0.71 in. (18 mm)
Length: 33.08 in. (840 mm)
- Burmese Moonstone: weight 25.46 carats in total, oval cut
- Pink Tourmalines: weight 18.29 carats in total, oval cut
Weight: 30.5 gr
This one-of-a-kind piece has been hand manufactured by trusted and highly qualified craftsmen according to the best Italian goldsmith tradition using the latest technology. Alex Jona hallmark 404TO guarantees the origin of the product and the precious metal content is confirmed by the official gold hallmarks.
18 Karat Rose Gold
18k (75%) gold is the purest form of gold used for jewelry (pure 100% gold is 24 karats by definition). 18k means that 18 out of the 24 parts that make up the gold are pure gold. The most common hallmark stamps for 18 karat gold are 18K or 750 that indicate 75% gold purity. Rose gold is an alloy also known as pink gold and red gold. Although the names are often used interchangeably, the difference between red, rose, and pink gold is the copper content: the higher the copper content, the stronger the red coloration. 18K red gold means 75% gold and 25% copper. 18K rose gold means 75% gold, 22.25% copper and 2.75% silver. 18K pink gold means 75% gold, 20% copper, 5% silver.
Tourmaline
Tourmalines have a wide variety of colors with one of the widest color, intensity and tone ranges of any gem species due to many different causes. Traces of iron, and possibly titanium, induce green and blue colors. Manganese produces reds and pinks, and possibly yellows. Rubellite is a name for pink, red, purplish red tourmaline. Paraiba is a very appreciated gemstone in the trade due to its special vivid blue-green color and rarity. It mainly come from the State of Paraiba, Brazil. Watermelon tourmaline is pink in the center and green around the outside. Green tourmaline may be intense green, similar to the African emerald color. Tourmalines are most commonly found in Brazil, but it is also mined in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique (among other countries in Africa). California and Maine are historically important producers of fine tourmaline in the United States. Tourmaline is the October birthstone and is given also to celebrate the eight wedding anniversary.
Moonstone
A ghostly sheen moves under the surface of this feldspar, like moonlight glowing in water. Moonstone’s delicate beauty and its long-established heritage make it perhaps the most familiar gem-quality member of the feldspar group. Feldspars are the most widespread minerals in the earth’s crust, as well as some of the most diverse. You can pick up a rock anywhere in the world, and you’ll probably find that it contains a mineral or two from the feldspar group. Moonstone is a variety of the feldspar-group mineral orthoclase. During formation, orthoclase and albite separate into alternating layers. When light falls between these thin layers it is scattered producing the phenomenon called adularescence. Adularescence is the light that appears to billow across a gem. Other feldspar minerals can also show adularescence including labradorite and sanidine.