24K, 18K, 14K... What does K mean?

What's the difference between 14K and 18K?
And what about Carat and Karat?

The Eye of Jewelry answers you for all of those questions you might had in your mind!

To know more about Carat, check out our video about 4Cs of diamond :

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The Eye of Jewelry is a webzine and a jewelry marketplace founded by Eleonor Picciotto with a desire to bring information, educate, discover and share her passion about the world of jewelry.

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[patriciamananghaya]

Really appreciate how this was very much straight to the point. Thanks!

[sn]

Info on why "24" Karat was chosen to mean 100% gold would've been nice.

[marinopacentrilli]

Beautiful concise clear and complete. Every news agency could take a lesson from this,

[KabbaVArtAndDesign]

This was very informative. I think I’m
Gonna be a 18k gold girlie from now on.

[eugeneattaattadjei]

Love the explanation, simple and straightforward

[PlucktheDragon]

I was watching the Nostalgia Critic’s 100th episode of Battlefield Earth when the Psychlos have enslave mankind because we have gold. That’s right, gold.

[jesuslovesyou]

Thank you for explaining this, I wanted to find out after watching videos of hypercars with Gold in their engines

[ClipBlender]

wooo you explained it so simply. thanks 👍

[closer]

Silver is not a base metal. It’s used in alloys of gold but is also a noble metal.

[kakzhann]

Really helpful, and your voice also gold ❤

[douglaspinsak]

Any idea why "24" as a measure of total purity?

[sherlockholmes]

So when they quote you a price of a 21K necklace, and tell you it's 65 grams, are they telling you the weight based on pure gold or the mixed alloy metal weight? They should just standardize it and only tell you based on pure gold that is present so we can calculate the gold value vs making charge and negotiate accordingly.

[Aldrin.]

In India anything less than 22k is a joke.

[prernajoshi]

I hav a ques, why purest form is rated as 24k, why not 100 or 10?

[BraziLoko]

I wear 18k and over, nothing less.. and Ive owned 22k for soo long now, that the quote “22k and 24k” is too soft for daily wear.. my 2mm and 3mm 22k chains have lasted forever and they look like brand new.. so I never listen to jewellers.. make sure youre getting SOLID & NOT HOLLOW!!

[aicodivaaa]

Why of all numbers, 24 is used to represent purest form of gold?

[zainb]

When they melt a bunch of different kt scrap gold what happens to the other metal? It’s usually silver no?

[hamboza]

why is the pure gold is 24K
why the number 24

[barax]

But y 24 is the main number and not 100 for example, , , ?

[jefferyjames]

I still confused because Gold have 999, 916, 24k