Just bought a sliver 10mm figaro from you guys yesterday. I’m even more excited after seeing the comparisons in the video. The silver goes the hardest out of the four in my opinion.
Now you need to see my Silver Tiger pendants. They are gigantic
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How was the quality more so the box lock? I was thinking of shopping GusVilla until I saw some very bad reviews on horrible quality box locks they did.
I have owned nothing but gold for about 2 decades but I have seen some pieces made in silver that look amazing. And they pair great with stainless steel watches. Great video had no idea the actual process of stuff
My favorite is just plain 925 silver. No coating to wear off and re plate every few months. I'd rather just give a few swipes from a polish cloth every few weeks and be done. My 12 year old flat curb chain still looks brand new after all these years.
@@jin8684How weird to say “gold is more sentimental and symbolic” That’s like telling someone else they’re wrong for saying that they have special memories associated with their grandma’s cooking or that a certain movie is particularly significant to them. “You’re wrong for subjectively valuing the things you value, and I, a stranger on the internet, know better.” Sounds like you just need to be right.
Fan of Gus Villa but there is a little bit of misinformation here. Copper is not really what makes silver turn black. 999 silver (fine silver, pure silver, etc) turns black over time as well. For people with oily skin it can actually turn pretty fast. Being nit picky here but just a heads up if you chose to go with a 999 silver chain it will still turn black over time.
Indeed. Silver sulfide is what the tarnishing on silver is. It can be removed easily by covering the chain in baking soda, wrapping it in foil, then boiling it for a few minutes in some salted water. You’ll never get it back to the 100% frosted factory white, but still looks basically brand new after cleaning it this way.
With the Hagerty silver cleaning kit, you put your silver jewelry about 15 seconds (in the professional use solution) or 2 minutes in the normal version and it goes like brand new. Also there are special polishing cloths for silver (I use Connoisseurs brand)
Unfortunately 😢 I have been forced to move away from yellow gold to silver for safety reasons!!!! Silver draws less attention. I am now starting to appreciate the beauty of silver 925. (Shiny form). Thanks for this video, it certainly answered all my questions regarding why silver tarnishes and the better options (namely rhodium). Thanks. I never heard of palladium before 😮. A quick edit...silver is to me the best looking of all the metals, i agree with you there. You should have gone into HOW the average silver chain owner can maintain their own chain....either with silver polishing cloths, dishwashing liquid and water, baking soda or a more involved method involving baking soda and boiling as given in another comment. This commentor stated the real reason why silver tarnishes. Since 925 silver is such a beautiful metal, i think you should do a video on HOW to maintain the silver as best to its original finish....removing the silver sulphide. You actually doing the process ( before and after) would be great👍. There are a few ways that people swear by, but one must be better than the other. I think that would be awesome for us silver lovers.
I tend to use rhodium plated silver for chains, and earrings due to its hypoallergenic quality. My friend had difficulty finding an ear ring that would work well due to her skin sensitivity and the rhodium plated screw back worked perfect.
Palladium I like simply because it's so unique. And I love the fact that it derives its name, in a roundabout fashion, with the Greek Titan Pallas, father of many noticeable avatars of strength including Nike - goddess of victory.
2 Cubans and a Figaro from GVJ in the last two months. Vids like this one are the reason why. Gus is the Columbian Pied Piper of Miami when it comes to handmade chains😅😅
I’m a silver fan but I wish i could afford gold.If you buy gold you can’t go wrong it’s a good investment. Gus, thanks for your channel. I love watching you talk about these beautiful metals and giving people school about it. God bless you. Keep up the good work, Saludos.
Gold would only be valuable as an investment in jewelry if your paying a good price and in most cases most jewelry is sold at 3-4x the actual value because they have to add in the cost of labor, overhead and other expenses which the metal itself doesn’t account for, so at that price you would buying it would take far to long for the value to appreciate to its true worth unless your buying at the right price.
Definitely a silver fan. Although the Rosie and plating is quite pretty, I'm not thrilled about the maintenance costs to have re-plate them. And I'm guilty of wearing stainless steel because I'm impoverished and because it's safer in my hood with my disabilities. But I'm starting to collect after losing everything I had to an apartment fire releasing asbestos. Personally I'm very glad that you started to work with silver because I am looking forward to one day owning one of your handmade Cuban link chains in silver. But I don't want the rhodium plating. For me My new chain with that plating was a mistake because it's not going to be at all cost-effective to recoat an Italian made chain that costs less than $200. So I'm hoping you can advise me as to how I can let this chain age gracefully without having to put more rhodium on it once it fades. I know I'm going to have to maintain it by cleaning and polishing. But i love the way it feels on my neck and the flexibility of the lynx as long with the weight. I like to handle "visit" my Jane while I'm wearing it and that's why I got the 24-in. I know all the blue I certainly intend to purchase a couple more in the near future, i think I'm always going to have a fondness for the first silver chain I've bought myself after having lost those gofted to me years ago. And thank you for the wonderful tour of your shop and showing us how you make your chains. You make me want to invest in one of your pieces pieces!😊
I have a question bro if a silver chain is dipped in rhodium and a white gold chain is dipped in rhodium also do one or either last longer than the other on like the rhodium cuz gold is more precious than silver does it last longer on
Gus you mentioned 5 precious metals. Please make a video in wich a jewellry is not deeped but in stead is solid made from Rhodium and Palladium (Platinum obviosly) and please Snow the final prices for them.
@@wooferjr169 That makes sense for handmade pieces but I don't understand why machine made chains from Italy are way more expensive than similarly sized gold ones. You would think having it made by machine would help keep labor costs down.
Jeweler here, whatever we use to work platinum, its almost 4 times more expensive than the materials we use for gold, as the melting point is way higher every single item used either cost is way higher
thank you for being so informative. i continue to watch and learn so much from your videos. i hope to one day buy a nice custom made cuban silver chain from you instead of the machine made ones i currently wear. thanks again...
What size mm is the machine made white gold cuban? The website only has silver and GOS machine made Cubans. Will you offer machine made cubans in gold?
sheeshh ima stil stand by white gold looks the best 👌🏼 also love the palladium but rhodium finish is the way for me on top of white gold n I actually like that yellowish white tone it gets after a while. that way u know you have a real gold peace rather a silver so you/others can differentiate the peace easy as well , very right about some whitegold aloys are more expensive then others are my named brand white gold peaces dont have that yellowish tint 💯🔥🙏🏽
Hello Gus, could you please do a segment on the difference between a fake gold Rolex and a real one, because I always wondered why can't a jeweler just test the gold to check the authenticity of the watch, why are some of these watches fooling some jewelers? Are some of the top quality fakes being made from real gold? anyways thanks again, great vids!
My Opinion is this: Rhodium plated jewelry isn’t worth getting. Whether it’s on white gold or silver, having to pay $100 or more for a rhodium re-dip is not ideal to me, especially for silver. Yellow gold or plain 925 Silver is what I would always choose. Stainless steel and rhodium plated look similar. The main reason for why I won’t buy stainless steel chains is because the links aren’t soldered and the production quality isn’t good.
Glaringly obvious that platinum was left out of the discussion. Is it just because the price of platinum has dropped so much? It’s still way more expensive than silver.
Jewelers always leave platinum out. There’s a pattern here. They in the buisness of making money and it’s obvious they rather push white gold than platinum
Silver! Since with a silver chain, at least that chain IS mostly silver.. 92.5% pure, rather than a 14kt gold chain that's 58.3% pure gold. I get that gold is too soft but if even if it's 14kt or 18kt, I get gold for the color, white gold is useless, rather just go with silver or platinum which by the way I don't know why platinum isn't listed... Also white gold has to be replated because the yellow will come out naturally over time so again, what's the point? Silver or platinum if oyu like the white metal look.
None of this makes any sense. So, if all these different metal chains have to be dipped in rhodium, why not just get a platinum chain instead? I had white gold which I had an allergic reaction to when the rhodium plating wore off. I had silver chains that tarnished, there are no rhodium chains made because it’s a very brittle metal, and palladium made chains are way more expensive! I’m very happy with my 3 platinum chains and will never go back to any of these other white metals. Platinum 💯💯
Just bought a sliver 10mm figaro from you guys yesterday. I’m even more excited after seeing the comparisons in the video. The silver goes the hardest out of the four in my opinion.
I agree 100 percent
Silver is king!
Now you need to see my Silver Tiger pendants. They are gigantic
How was the quality more so the box lock? I was thinking of shopping GusVilla until I saw some very bad reviews on horrible quality box locks they did.
I have owned nothing but gold for about 2 decades but I have seen some pieces made in silver that look amazing. And they pair great with stainless steel watches. Great video had no idea the actual process of stuff
I started wearing mixed metals together due to buying a stainless Cartier tank and it looks fantastic.
I have owned nothing but silver jewelry amongst those
Man I love this guy's videos. Amazing quality and very educational
White gold 100% just because. And to take it further 18KT white gold 💯 I like the extra heft of 18KT on the neck.
My favorite is just plain 925 silver. No coating to wear off and re plate every few months. I'd rather just give a few swipes from a polish cloth every few weeks and be done. My 12 year old flat curb chain still looks brand new after all these years.
If it gets tarnished no one is going to question that it's real silver and not steel or something
Get your money up, I bet your favorite will change 😂
@@jin8684 Silver, to a lot of people, is a representation of freedom itself. It's symbolic and sentimental to many including myself.
In that case, Gold is way more sentimental and symbolic lol
@@jin8684How weird to say “gold is more sentimental and symbolic”
That’s like telling someone else they’re wrong for saying that they have special memories associated with their grandma’s cooking or that a certain movie is particularly significant to them.
“You’re wrong for subjectively valuing the things you value, and I, a stranger on the internet, know better.”
Sounds like you just need to be right.
Fan of Gus Villa but there is a little bit of misinformation here. Copper is not really what makes silver turn black. 999 silver (fine silver, pure silver, etc) turns black over time as well. For people with oily skin it can actually turn pretty fast. Being nit picky here but just a heads up if you chose to go with a 999 silver chain it will still turn black over time.
Indeed. Silver sulfide is what the tarnishing on silver is. It can be removed easily by covering the chain in baking soda, wrapping it in foil, then boiling it for a few minutes in some salted water. You’ll never get it back to the 100% frosted factory white, but still looks basically brand new after cleaning it this way.
that's a fact that's why I stack silver 💯 don't wear it. lol 🙏🏽
Use toothpaste to clean silver. Works great
With the Hagerty silver cleaning kit, you put your silver jewelry about 15 seconds (in the professional use solution) or 2 minutes in the normal version and it goes like brand new. Also there are special polishing cloths for silver (I use Connoisseurs brand)
Platinum...the rest is trash
Unfortunately 😢 I have been forced to move away from yellow gold to silver for safety reasons!!!! Silver draws less attention. I am now starting to appreciate the beauty of silver 925. (Shiny form). Thanks for this video, it certainly answered all my questions regarding why silver tarnishes and the better options (namely rhodium). Thanks. I never heard of palladium before 😮.
A quick edit...silver is to me the best looking of all the metals, i agree with you there. You should have gone into HOW the average silver chain owner can maintain their own chain....either with silver polishing cloths, dishwashing liquid and water, baking soda or a more involved method involving baking soda and boiling as given in another comment. This commentor stated the real reason why silver tarnishes.
Since 925 silver is such a beautiful metal, i think you should do a video on HOW to maintain the silver as best to its original finish....removing the silver sulphide. You actually doing the process ( before and after) would be great👍. There are a few ways that people swear by, but one must be better than the other. I think that would be awesome for us silver lovers.
Gold and silver are classic wear plus their stocks go up for their compounds
I tend to use rhodium plated silver for chains, and earrings due to its hypoallergenic quality. My friend had difficulty finding an ear ring that would work well due to her skin sensitivity and the rhodium plated screw back worked perfect.
that's why u go gold bro🙏🏽
Palladium I like simply because it's so unique. And I love the fact that it derives its name, in a roundabout fashion, with the Greek Titan Pallas, father of many noticeable avatars of strength including Nike - goddess of victory.
I love my silver chain but don't wear it that much because of the maintenance part.
Your videos are amazing…. Very informational. So I have a question.. a cuban 950 silver necklace dipped in rhodium. How long will rhodium last?
You should have use a black desk, to be able to bring the image clarity and distinguish its differences of the metals since they're all white.
White gold Wednesday! I normally wear my white gold chains on Wednesdays. I call it white gold Wednesdays!
Silver is the most reflective metal.
2 Cubans and a Figaro from GVJ in the last two months. Vids like this one are the reason why.
Gus is the Columbian Pied Piper of Miami when it comes to handmade chains😅😅
Ah man, you told me you couldn't dip my silver cuban in palladium 😢😢
I’m a silver fan but I wish i could afford gold.If you buy gold you can’t go wrong it’s a good investment. Gus, thanks for your channel. I love watching you talk about these beautiful metals and giving people school about it. God bless you. Keep up the good work, Saludos.
Gold would only be valuable as an investment in jewelry if your paying a good price and in most cases most jewelry is sold at 3-4x the actual value because they have to add in the cost of labor, overhead and other expenses which the metal itself doesn’t account for, so at that price you would buying it would take far to long for the value to appreciate to its true worth unless your buying at the right price.
You would be better off buying actual 24k gold at a precious metal exhange i.e APMEX
Damn Gus... you gonna make me buy another silver chain from you😂. I love my 12mm cuban I got from you (Im wearing it as Im typing this) 🔥🔥🔥
Does dipping/plating silver in platinum do anything to make it easier to handle, and, if so, is it cheaper to do than rhodium?
Great video!!
Do you have to rhodium plate when you first buy a chain or can you refurbish an old chain and have it rhodium plated then
silver with diamonds looks the best to be honest or just straight yellow/red gold
Definitely a silver fan. Although the Rosie and plating is quite pretty, I'm not thrilled about the maintenance costs to have re-plate them.
And I'm guilty of wearing stainless steel because I'm impoverished and because it's safer in my hood with my disabilities. But I'm starting to collect after losing everything I had to an apartment fire releasing asbestos.
Personally I'm very glad that you started to work with silver because I am looking forward to one day owning one of your handmade Cuban link chains in silver. But I don't want the rhodium plating.
For me My new chain with that plating was a mistake because it's not going to be at all cost-effective to recoat an Italian made chain that costs less than $200.
So I'm hoping you can advise me as to how I can let this chain age gracefully without having to put more rhodium on it once it fades.
I know I'm going to have to maintain it by cleaning and polishing. But i love the way it feels on my neck and the flexibility of the lynx as long with the weight.
I like to handle "visit" my Jane while I'm wearing it and that's why I got the 24-in.
I know all the blue I certainly intend to purchase a couple more in the near future, i think I'm always going to have a fondness for the first silver chain I've bought myself after having lost those gofted to me years ago.
And thank you for the wonderful tour of your shop and showing us how you make your chains.
You make me want to invest in one of your pieces pieces!😊
In the words of Jay Z
My jewelry is light grey
Platinum spend yo whole life in a day
I wear a platinum chain too, had to go small because of the insane prices
@@anonymoustv5770 facts 💯 too damn expensive 🫰🏿🫰🏿
I have a platinum chain too!🔥
@@anonymoustv5770 the prices of platinum chains is ridiculous 🫰🏿 💰 🫰🏿💵
@@24kJay300 💯💯 🔥🔥 👏🏿
18-20k if I want something in gold, platinum if I want something in a stong white, and 999 fine silver for everything else. 🤘
WHITE GOLD, ROSE GOLD & YELLOW GOLD 😂🤣 GOLD ALLDAAAAY! NOTHING CAN BEAT GOLD 🥇🥇🥇
White gold sucks! A lot of ppl are allergic to zinc which is a main material in white gold
I have a question bro if a silver chain is dipped in rhodium and a white gold chain is dipped in rhodium also do one or either last longer than the other on like the rhodium cuz gold is more precious than silver does it last longer on
gold will always be superior 💯🙏🏽
Buy platinum bro! It’s way way better. No maintenance like white gold
Palladium looks the best
Amazing review, thanks!
Gus you mentioned 5 precious metals. Please make a video in wich a jewellry is not deeped but in stead is solid made from Rhodium and Palladium (Platinum obviosly) and please Snow the final prices for them.
I’ll be very surprised if he does
Are you doing palladium braclets now? Do not see them on website.
With platinum being $908.22/ounce and gold $2488/ounce, why are platinum chains always more expensive than gold?
Maybe because Platinum has a higher melting point than gold, and platinum is a harder metal to work with vs gold being a more softer metal.
@@wooferjr169 That makes sense for handmade pieces but I don't understand why machine made chains from Italy are way more expensive than similarly sized gold ones. You would think having it made by machine would help keep labor costs down.
Hard to work with
Jeweler here, whatever we use to work platinum, its almost 4 times more expensive than the materials we use for gold, as the melting point is way higher every single item used either cost is way higher
Gus needs to lool into i prolux as a finish to fight tarnish not as expensive of rhodium
thank you for being so informative. i continue to watch and learn so much from your videos. i hope to one day buy a nice custom made cuban silver chain from you instead of the machine made ones i currently wear. thanks again...
What size mm is the machine made white gold cuban? The website only has silver and GOS machine made Cubans. Will you offer machine made cubans in gold?
sheeshh ima stil stand by white gold looks the best 👌🏼 also love the palladium but rhodium finish is the way for me on top of white gold n I actually like that yellowish white tone it gets after a while. that way u know you have a real gold peace rather a silver so you/others can differentiate the peace easy as well , very right about some whitegold aloys are more expensive then others are my named brand white gold peaces dont have that yellowish tint 💯🔥🙏🏽
Yellow gold Cubans please.
AHHH Bro, I've been trying to keep myself from buying an 8mm or 10mm Silver/Rhodium chain from your website, and then you post this!
I haven’t seen any rhodium chains out there. Gus, do you sell any rhodium chains or know of a jeweler that does with an online website?
I remember emailing you recently about if you make silver sleek locks, and I am honestly curious if that in any way inspired this video?
Very good video about silver dipped in rhodium
Dam ok I just place an order for a bracelet and chain in Silver- I need to upgrade both to Rhodium.
Gus the 🐐
How about platinum?
Plane silver and rhodium all day
Just picked up a silver 10mm 24in fucking 🔥🔥🔥🔥
1:49 millimeters?
Why did Rhodium Spike so high in 2021?
Can you review craftd London jewelry bro?
Shoutouts from the Bay area California
how many catalytic converts do i need to get to coat my 24in 12mm chain
it's a cuban
Hello Gus, could you please do a segment on the difference between a fake gold Rolex and a real one, because I always wondered why can't a jeweler just test the gold to check the authenticity of the watch, why are some of these watches fooling some jewelers? Are some of the top quality fakes being made from real gold? anyways thanks again, great vids!
I'm a strictly 10k fan.
My Opinion is this: Rhodium plated jewelry isn’t worth getting. Whether it’s on white gold or silver, having to pay $100 or more for a rhodium re-dip is not ideal to me, especially for silver. Yellow gold or plain 925 Silver is what I would always choose. Stainless steel and rhodium plated look similar. The main reason for why I won’t buy stainless steel chains is because the links aren’t soldered and the production quality isn’t good.
Beautiful
Would love to buy a chain from you, but you never answered my inquiry... I guess business is good! God bless!
AMEN to dat!!! Same here!
I would like to buy a silver 12 mm change with you guys. Can you send me the link?
Buy off 5heor website bro
Enjoyed the vid like always my dawg.. Where my chain at tho?? 👀 Order 2314
Glaringly obvious that platinum was left out of the discussion. Is it just because the price of platinum has dropped so much? It’s still way more expensive than silver.
Jewelers always leave platinum out. There’s a pattern here. They in the buisness of making money and it’s obvious they rather push white gold than platinum
Rhodium is better💯👍
Silver! Since with a silver chain, at least that chain IS mostly silver.. 92.5% pure, rather than a 14kt gold chain that's 58.3% pure gold. I get that gold is too soft but if even if it's 14kt or 18kt, I get gold for the color, white gold is useless, rather just go with silver or platinum which by the way I don't know why platinum isn't listed... Also white gold has to be replated because the yellow will come out naturally over time so again, what's the point? Silver or platinum if oyu like the white metal look.
Bro I was about to order the 8k chain today but my daughter took the phone from me
One ounce of rhodium was $30,000
Sterling look best but rhodium on silver pretty good. Tarnish is aight and easy to reverse. Platinum way duller than nice sterling and cost 10x
They all look like stainless steel to me.
Get rhodium plated silver, looks great, price is reasonable and nobody needs to know what you are wearing lol.
Why do people like stainless steel?
Cuz it’s cheap and looks great
✌️💚
Silver = toothpaste u good
Platinum is better
Theirs nothing wrong with 925 Italy
He forgot about platinum
Only Silver Crew!
Your website is showing up as insecure and not private
So slow emails great craftmanship tho
Or NO emails is the norm.
Are you Indian?
Ya straight silver visually shits on wg wg looks like stainless and that's just gay
None of this makes any sense. So, if all these different metal chains have to be dipped in rhodium, why not just get a platinum chain instead? I had white gold which I had an allergic reaction to when the rhodium plating wore off. I had silver chains that tarnished, there are no rhodium chains made because it’s a very brittle metal, and palladium made chains are way more expensive! I’m very happy with my 3 platinum chains and will never go back to any of these other white metals. Platinum 💯💯
If someone was SERIOUS about getting a REAL chain worth SERIOUS money, they'd get it in iridium.