9ct White Gold Italian Plain Hoop Earrings 3mm Tube 15mm Diameter

This pair of hoop earrings is 9ct white gold, formed from 3 mm tube with an inside diameter of 15 mm Ñ 21 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 15 mm the hoop clears the lobe and reads clearly as a ring. It is the usual size for a second or third piercing, where anything larger would crowd the hoop below it. A 3 mm tube gives the hoop a visible band of metal, with more surface to catch light and more weight in the lobe. It is the gauge to choose when you want the hoop to read as substantial rather than fine.

Specification

• Metal: 9ct white gold (375)
• Style: Plain Hoop
• Tube: 3 mm
• Inside diameter: 15 mm
• Outside diameter: 21 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.