So, I understand the difference between "pure" silver and sterling. Wow, I can't believe how many people ask the same question when they could just read any response and get their answer! I admire your patience with these individuals! When the Lone Ranger shouted "Hi Ho, Silver, away!", his horse usually caught up with the bad guys the horse wasn't a frozen-in-place metal sculpture :-) "Regular" silver has no meaning, kemosabe. Sterling silver is 92.5% pure silver with the other 7.5% of the jewelry being copper or other less expensive metal. Silver is readily available 99.9% pure and even purer. Silver is a semi-precious metallic element. and like I said, the others are shinier and resemble stainless.Ĭan you try to express your question in terms of what has already been said, so that we can better understand where the difficulty lies and keep moving forward? If we just keep repeating pretty much the same question and answer, none of us is on the best part of our learning curve :-) The lighter one almost looks like white gold. What is the significance of this difference. I have some silver that is light in color and some that looks much like stainless steel. Since, as you say, 24 karat means 100% pure, there is actually 23.99 karat gold, maybe 23.99999, maybe even more trailing nines - but no 24 karat gold :-) It's a semantics issue, not a practical problem, but it is not possible to remove every single last atom of contamination from anything. So, to my limited knowledge, the term 'solid silver' has no exact meaning for a watch case - but I'm not a jeweler and could well be in error. The purer the silver gets, the softer and less useable it would be for a watch case.
There is, of course, no such thing as absolutely 100 percent pure anything, but 'solid silver' might mean "4 nines" (99.99% pure) or maybe not. As previously mentioned, 'sterling silver' has a specific meaning: an alloy with 92.5 percent silver in it.
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