Why You Should NEVER Wear Gold Jewelry in a Swimming Pool - Video

If you’ve ever worn gold jewelry in a swimming pool, you need to see this.

A customer brought me her engagement ring after one of the prongs holding the center diamond completely broke off. The fracture looked unusual, and once I started removing the remaining prongs, the white gold began flaking and crumbling instead of simply bending.

That immediately made me suspicious of chlorine or bleach exposure.

Gold jewelry is made from alloys, and chlorine-containing chemicals can attack components of those alloys, leaving the metal brittle and much more susceptible to cracking under stress.

I also show an extreme bleach experiment I did previously, where I soaked a gold ring overnight and was able to peel the weakened metal apart by hand the next day.

While repairing this engagement ring, I found another issue: the original center crown was crooked and basically sitting on top of the ring. I replaced it with a properly supported peg setting, soldered the cathedral shoulders into the gallery, and reset her original diamond.

Take your gold jewelry off before getting into pools or hot tubs, and keep it away from bleach.

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