Platinum is a naturally bright white metal and is 95% pure and is hypoallergenic
Platinum is broken down into 95% pure platinum and 5% other alloy
Platinum is one of the most hard wearing precious metals and hence why it is so popular for wedding rings and especially gents wedding rings. Ladies can prefer platinum engagement rings and wedding rings due to the natural bright white colour and not having to worry about any type of plating, as platinum does not change colour.
Although platinum is very hard wearing metal in jewellery, there are other more harder wearing metals in every day living such as door handles, so like any other wedding ring platinum will scratch. However with platinum wedding rings the metal will merely displace rather than metal being lost.
When platinum has a professional polishing service to remove very deep scratches within your wedding ring we would have to remove a very small amount of metal so these scratches are no longer visable.
If you did not want to wear a platinum wedding ring with your engagement ring the other metal that we would recommend as a wedding ring would be palladium as it is also a naturally white metal like platinum and is also 95% pure, so you will get the same effect and look as if you went for a platinum wedding ring.
More traditional wedding ring profiles are Court Shape - rounded inside & outside and D Shape - flat inside & rounded outside. Other wedding ring profiles that are becoming more popular are Flat Shape - flat inside and flat outside, Flat Court Shape - rounded inside and flat outside, Blended Court Shape - rounded inside and rounded/flat outside (this profile is between court shape and flat court)
