Platinum and diamond station necklace

This piece is about 6 years after “The Mask”. The difference in finish and workmanship is leaps and bounds from “The Mask”, the soldering here is much finer, and plenty more difficult as the material is platinum, which is a much less forgiving metal than 18ct white gold. Platinum has a melting point of 1774°C, whereas 18ct white gold has a melting point of 904°C - a huge difference! So you’re working with much higher temperatures and once you’re getting to that point where you introduce the solder, the metal is a blinding, white bright, and without the correct eye protection, you can eventually permanently damage your eyes. Now you’ve figured out the process of soldering platinum, you need to attach your jump-rings which are small enough to fit a fine chain to the collet which is holding the diamond, easy enough right? Then off to your best setters, the work should be fairly simple as long as you’ve ensured the diamonds are comfortably seated within the collet. Finally, measure all and cut each segment of chain, link to those jump-rings, solder, buff and polish! There you have it, a platinum and diamond station necklace with a total diamond weight of 2.82cts.