Small metal, big treasure

Discovered in the late 18th century, titanium has been widely used in precision devices, aerospace and other military fields. In recent years, it has also begun to be used in civilian fields such as manufacturing equipment and daily necessities. Among its many applications, titanium is an unlikely one for jewelry. Titanium is favored by jewelry designers because of its many excellent properties.

It is often seen that jewelry designers express their artistic ideas with large volume and exaggerated design works. Therefore, weight also becomes a more important factor in the selection of jewelry material. If the volume is the same, the weight of titanium is less than 1/5 of that of gold. If titanium is chosen as the production material, designers will not need to worry about the impact of weight on the wearing effect of jewelry in the jewelry works of larger volume. At the same time, lightweight jewelry is more comfortable for the wearer and has an excellent wearing experience.

In addition to its light weight, which can realize exaggerated artistic ideas, titanium is favored by jewelry designers because of its material characteristics. The more common silver jewelry on the market now will be oxidized and blackened for a long time, and it needs to be regularly taken care of to maintain the surface luster. Titanium not only does not rust in the strong acid and alkali environment, but also forms a dense oxide layer at normal temperature, which is not easy to be affected by external factors and lead to changes in appearance, and can ensure that the jewelry is maintained in the most original state.

Titanium itself is a silver-white metal that looks gray to the naked eye, and it is hard to associate it with shiny jewelry as a dull, hard metal. But titanium, when treated, exhibits a rich variety of colors that not only inspire jewelry designers, but also add visual effects to jewelry.

Titanium surface treatment process is also relatively unique, its coloring is electrolytic process, by controlling the thickness of oxide film to change the color, all colors can be realized, and this layer of color oxide film is harder than titanium. Because of its hardness, in the realization of fine jewelry modeling, may be more advantageous. Even the small design is not easy to be affected by external forces and change the shape, in the process of wearing, but also can prevent the surface of the jewelry from being scratched.

Zi Chen, a well-known Chinese jewelry designer, once said that he chose titanium to interpret his works because of its charming color and lightness. It is challenging and interesting to tame the hardest metal in the world and present soft and delicate curved lines on it like flowing water." 'he said.

Light weight, hardness, rich color, in addition to these advantages of designers to achieve the work, titanium material is the most unique biophile, but also reflects the unique titanium jewelry. Many allergic people have limited choices when wearing jewelry. It is difficult to choose other jewelry except pure gold and silver. As a biophilic metal, titanium earrings and necklaces made of titanium can inhibit bacteria and prevent allergies, and people with sensitive skin can also wear them at ease.

At present, titanium jewelry has not received a high degree of acceptance in the mass market, largely due to the stereotype that only precious metals can be called jewelry. However, some niche jewelry designers see the excellent performance of titanium material for making jewelry and put it into use. Titanium jewelry is entering the field of high jewelry. In addition, the processing of titanium is still difficult, so some jewelry designers adopt the way of engraving to present the works, fine production process and excellent materials, instead of calling it jewelry, it may be more appropriate to regard it as art. However, in order to open the market of titanium jewelry, how to mass-produce low cost and high quality titanium jewelry is a problem that needs to be solved.

A number of different from ordinary jewelry excellent performance, distinctive color, coupled with a small consumer group, titanium jewelry is more like a high-end symbol of treasure metal decorative art.