The soul of gold has many colors: gold that is soft and warm like a sandy beach, or fresh and clear like a summer morning at the lake; gold that glows like the sun in that special moment just before the sun set. Gold that is so beautiful that it seems to blush. Pure gold, in rich yellow. If gold looks so much like fresh hay on a sunny meadow, perhaps you can even smell it? Our designers and goldsmiths are sure you can—and they should know! For they managed to draw a color spectrum from precious gold that is truly unique. Niessing made the color wheel of gold come full circle.

Each piece of jewelry is engraved with the letters “Au” for “aurum”, the Latin word for gold, and with a number, which represents the mass of pure gold in relation to 1000 parts contained in an alloy. It is important for the quality of the alloy that the proportion of gold is as high as possible. In order to ensure optimal fineness, we manufacture all of our alloys in-house. We use Au 1000 (fine gold), Au 900, Au 750, and for some wedding rings also Au 585 We use palladium rather than nickel in our gold alloys. Palladium is a silvery-white precious metal from the platinum group. It is pure, white, skin-friendly—and absolutely beautiful.

Pleasant freshness meets with the deepest warmth in no other metal as it does in platinum. To describe platinum in words: nearly impossible! Touch it, take it into your hand, and feel the spark ignite. Is platinum addictive? 30 times rarer than gold, platinum is by far more difficult to excavate. It is the most prestigious of metals for jewelry making. Platinum is excellently suited for setting diamonds. Its naturally white color perfectly brings out the fire of precious stones. Platinum for everyday wear? Certainly! Platinum feels very pleasant, even to sensitive skin. Like any ring of precious metal, a platinum ring will acquire traces of wear. Since the material is so ductile, however, this does not result in any substantial loss of material. The material does not wear away, so that a platinum ring will retain its mass for a very long time. Niessing exclusively uses high-quality platinum 950 for making jewelry. This figure represents the fineness of the alloy, that is, the ratio of platinum in the alloy, expressed as parts per 1000. The remaining 50 parts are copper or tungsten. Every piece of Niessing’s platinum jewelry has the engraving Pt 950.

Niessing precious metals are obtained in a sustainable manner. Our use of gold is exclusively from the recovery of secondary resources (recycling), which is also referred to as urban mining. We obtain precious metals from certified German and Swiss refineries. The entire alloying process takes place at Niessing in the manufactory, where recycling and reutilization also have top priority. Recycled precious metal is the most sustainable source for our exclusive pieces of jewelry.