9ct White Gold Italian Plain Hoop Earrings 2mm Tube 40mm Diameter

This pair of hoop earrings is 9ct white gold, formed from 2 mm tube with an inside diameter of 40 mm Ñ 44 mm measured across the outside, which is the figure to compare against a hoop you already own. Tube is what makes a hoop of any size wearable. The wall of the tube carries the shape and the hollow centre carries no weight at all, so the hoop stays light in the piercing even as the diameter grows.

At 40 mm the hoop drops past the jaw. A deliberate statement size Ñ and the size at which hollow tube construction stops being a detail and starts being the reason the earring is wearable all day. A 2 mm tube is the fine end of the range: the hoop reads as a clean drawn line rather than a band of metal, and sits lightly in the piercing.

Specification

• Metal: 9ct white gold (375)
• Style: Plain Hoop
• Tube: 2 mm
• Inside diameter: 40 mm
• Outside diameter: 44 mm
• Construction: Tube
• Finish: Polished
• Sold as: Pair

9ct white gold is 375 parts per thousand fine gold in a white alloy. White gold is normally finished with rhodium plating to give an even, bright white; that plating is a wearing surface rather than a permanent finish, and any jeweller can renew it when it thins.

Servicing. Tube is hollow, which is what keeps the hoop light Ñ and it is also the limit of what can be done to it. A tube hoop cannot be resized, and a crushed or kinked section generally cannot be brought back, so store hoops where they cannot be compressed or sat on. Rhodium plating on white gold wears thinnest where the earring passes through the piercing; re-plating is a routine job and restores the colour completely. Sold as a pair.