Get your Jewelry Inspected at Egon’s

Why You Should Get Your Jewelry Inspected at Egon’s in Syracuse, NY

After you have purchased that beautiful piece of jewelry you should get on a routine inspection schedule. As a rule twice a year is standard. Most all jewelry is made of precious metals. Many pieces also have gemstones in them. Metals like silver, gold, palladium and platinum start to show wear. Things like jump rings, end tabs, links, prongs, clasps all wear, As they wear they get thin and will break easily causing you to loose the piece. By taking them to your jeweler for inspections they can see this happening and replace the parts that are getting too thin. The time frame in which this wearing happens depends greatly on the individual. Some people wear their jewelry 24/7 and others only occasionally. Some are very active and some not. The more you wear it the faster it wears. Even so under normal conditions the first signs of wear don’t really appear until years 5 through 10. The other thing jewelers look for during inspection is loose or damaged gemstones. This type of problem can be remedied easily if caught early. Most gemstones can be tightened in minuets. Usually when a gemstone becomes loose it is because it has come into contact with something that moved a prong away from it. These prongs can be straightened or replaced. Your Diamond in your engagement ring could be loose right now in danger of falling out of the setting and you would never know. Most of the time people don’t even realize they hit their ring against something hard and have a bent or broken prong. Damaged gemstones can be polished or recut depending on the severity and value. This is a more detail fix and will take longer. Most people think a diamond can’t chip because it’s reputation as being the hardest substance on earth. It is the hardest of all gemstones but it isn’t the toughest so it can chip if it is hit against something at just the right angle. In fact Jade is much tougher than Diamonds. Also people wear rings together on the same finger and you get diamonds hitting diamonds which guarantees chipping. Your jeweler has all the preventative fixes for helping you to protecting your gemstones. All gemstones will have surface wear over time and there is nothing to prevent that if you wear them. But they can be polished and faceted back to that beauty it had the day you bought it. There are many more things your jeweler will look for during the inspection. As a bonus your jewelry is professionally cleaned during the inspection process to make it look new again. So it’s probably time for you to get on that routine inspection schedule.

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Business Hours

Monday – Wednesday 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Friday 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Saturday 1o:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.