Turquoise Necklaces

Turquoise is porous and softer than a diamond, so it absorbs what it touches. Put the necklace on last, after perfume, sunscreen and body lotion have dried, because a necklace sits exactly where those go. Clean it with a dry soft cloth and never an ultrasonic cleaner. Stored away from direct sun, the color holds for decades.

Turquoise is known as firoza in South Asia and is worn as a stone of protection and steady fortune, often given for safe travel. It arrived in Indian jewelry through Persian trade, which is why it appears set into gold rather than silver in the subcontinent, and why it pairs so naturally with yellow gold here.

Three. Inlay, where turquoise is cut to fill a half-inch clover in 14K yellow gold. Stations, where small turquoise clovers or rectangular bars repeat along an eighteen inch Italian-made chain. And a full tennis line of seventeen carats. Two pieces pair turquoise with natural diamonds, including a 0.17 carat clover.

Matrix is the host rock left in the turquoise, showing as brown, black or gold veining across the blue. It is natural and it is not a flaw. Some buyers want an even blue with no matrix, others want the veining because no two stones repeat. Tell the team which you prefer and they will pull to it.