The
Heavenly Necklaces Jewellery
Collection 2008.

FABULOUS FAKES

All jewellery in our Fabulous Fakes range is made from Sterling Silver plated in rhodium: a precious metal that is more expensive than platinum.  It protects allergy-prone wearers from the nickel in silver, and also prevents the silver from tarnishing.

I wear Fab Fakes; so much easier than taking the real stuff out of the bank, insuring it, taking it back, worrying about it...
~ Lady P, Scotland

We use the best quality cubic zirconia - and yes, the quality does vary.  CZs are the man-made diamonds that even professional jewellers have to look at twice.  They are made of compressed carbon but they take several million years less to produce than the real thing!  The technical differences are:

• CZs are thermal insulators: diamonds are among the most efficient thermal conductors. A thermal probe applied to a suspect diamond will tell all!
• Specific gravity; a cz will weigh 1.7 times more than a real diamond.
• Hardness; a cz is not as hard as a diamond: 8.5 vv 10
• Flaws: CZs are vitually flawless. Most diamonds have some sort of birthmark
• Colour: only the rarest diamonds are truly colourless. CZs can be made entirely colourless, equivalent to a perfect 'D' diamond on the diamond colour grading scale.