Rhodium Plating on platinum rings.

brazilianwax

my engagement and wedding rings were originally white gold and hence rhodium plated. cutting a long story short, after having them re-plated (the place that made them did it free every year) i had to go to casualty to have them cut off.

white gold has nickel added to it - and I am highly allergic to nickel!!!

had the rings re-made in platinum (no rhodium and as someone else said, a pure metal) and have been fine ever since.

i can't see why someone would rhodium plate a platinum ring though.

TomsMom

will1974 wrote: »

White Gold is basically yellow gold mixed with silver and palladium and then dipped in rodium to give it a white apperance, it is not a pure metal, after a period of time, it varies amongst people, some 6 months, some 5 years!! it will start to tarnish and look a bronze colour, this is when you would get it re-rodium plated,

I've done really well then as in 39 years my white gold wedding ring has never discoloured or tarnished or looked a bronze colour. Just goes dull. Only professionally cleaned twice in all those years. Maybe they don't make them now like they used to

pboae

Maybe you are right Tom's Mum! My engagement ring is 13 years old, and my wedding ring nearly 11. I got them both replated for the first time last year when I got an eternity ring, as they looked dull compared to the new one, but none of them have discoloured or tarnished.