White gold emerged in the early twentieth century as a practical response to wartime platinum restrictions, developed and refined through subsequent decades, and accumulated over a hundred years of continuous fine jewelry use.
Style Notes
14kt white gold is a strong setting choice for colored gemstones: its neutral finish introduces no warm color interference into the stone, allowing the gem to display its true hue rather than a version of it filtered through yellow metal.
Myth & Meaning
The blue that people across Persian, Hebrew, Christian, and Buddhist traditions associated with wisdom, divine favor, truth, and fidelity is the same blue of the sapphire. It appears in descriptions of the Ten Commandments tablets, the foundations of the New Jerusalem, the robes of deities. The physical quality of the color is inseparable from the meaning those traditions built around it.