14CT GOLD ROUND ONYX & DIAMOND CUFFLINKS

These are beautiful natural black Onyx 14k Yellow Gold cufflinks. These cufflinks feature 5mm eight-cut Onyx stones and they measure approximately 12mm in diameter. These cufflinks would look amazing on any shirt for any event. They weigh approximately 10.46 grams. PLEASE NOTE: These gorgeous cufflinks are made to order in LA and imported from the USA, so please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery (though I have never waited longer than a fortnight).

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Cufflinks gained popularity back in the seventeenth century. In the past men created cufflinks by attaching a gold and silver button to a small chain, and then pulled them through the hole of a cuff to keep both the shirt and the jacket attached. Men who wore tuxedos or any type of formal wear were often found with the most decorative cufflinks. The Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s opened the door for more cufflinks to be manufactured. Shirt designers were so intrigued with the fast development of the cufflink that they immediately jumped on the wagon. Then, in the nineteenth century, more and more businessmen of all types of social classes caught on to the cufflink frenzy and started wearing them with more casual attire as opposed to the traditional gala.

Onyx is a fashionable gemstone that is often desired in jet black. When Onyx is pure black it is referred to as “Black Onyx” and owes its distinctive colour to an ancient dyeing process. Roman soldiers wore  Sardonyx (with white and brown bands) as talismans,  believing that it made the wearer as brave as the heroes they had engraved onto the gem. Because of its different colour bands, the gem is ideal for making cameos, where the lighter colour tends to be carved, using the darker colour as the background. Some also refer to the gem as “Black Magic”.

Diamonds are dated by analyzing inclusions using the decay of radioactive isotopes. Those found in kimberlites have ages ranging from 1 to 3.5 billion years, and there can be multiple ages in the same kimberlite, indicating multiple episodes of Diamond formation. Although Diamonds on Earth are rare, they are very common in space. Sufficiently small Diamonds can form in the cold of space because their lower surface energy makes them more stable than graphite. High-pressure experiments predict that large quantities of Diamonds condense from methane into a "Diamond rain" on the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune. Diamonds may exist in carbon-rich stars, particularly white dwarfs. Diamonds formed in stars may have been the first minerals.