Buying a durable wedding ring for working hands
A durable, wear-resistant wedding ring has its merits for buyers with a manual job or anyone engaged in physical labour.
Furthermore, hardness and durability are two factors essential for long-term wear and tear.
Palladium wedding rings, as new (left) and with heavy wear (right)
How do traditional plain wedding rings resist wear?
Plain wedding rings offer the greatest durability. Besides your choice of metal, a thicker band offers greater strength.
As a result, light weight wedding rings lack the strength of heavier styles. To explain, we create most bands in 3 different depths; light, medium and heavy-weight. Our best selling plain wedding rings fall into the medium-weight range. It must be remembered that many well-known high street shops add confusing descriptions. An example is super-heavy weight. Many wedding rings described as super-heavy-weight fall below the gram weight of our own medium weight rings.
Best precious metals for a durable wedding ring
Across our full range of metal choices, we advise Titanium or Palladium wedding bands for working hands. Titanium and Palladium will both scratch, but both are lightweight metals. Furthermore, both metals will stand knocks, scrapes and heavy wear. In contrast, 9-carat gold wears much faster and is less suitable for heavy wear. 18-carat gold has excellent hardness but proceed with caution if you are considering 18-carat white gold for your wedding band. White gold receives a white Rhodium plating to brighten the slightly-tinted metal. Under heavy wear, Rhodium wears away to reveal a variation in colour between the natural white gold and the whiter Rhodium plating.
Engraved wedding rings – avoiding wear when it comes to your engraving
Many of our clients choose to apply a unique engraving. This varies between a line of text, an engraved fingerprint or even a heartbeat reading. Consider adding your engraving inside your ring. Protected within the ring, engravings are less likely to be worn away. 
Titanium wedding bands for working hands
Titanium makes the best wedding band for working hands. Titanium features amongst the strongest metals.
In addition, Titanium wedding bands offer excellent value for money with many positive features. Titanium wedding bands are robust, lightweight, durable and can be engraved.
The following video shows a pair of custom-engraved Celtic wedding rings. Just one idea from our Titanium ring collection.
They make an excellent choice for an affordable, lightweight choice. Furthermore, Titanium wedding rings come in all styles, from plain designs to elaborately engraved styles.
Personalised Titanium wedding bands, durable, lightweight and hardwearing.
About Mark Johnson
My name is Mark and I'm founder at Serendipity Diamonds. By day you'll find me working in our showroom—in a variety of roles. My work (which I love) ranges from photographing jewellery, to writing blog posts and helping clients with my colleagues Drina, Emily and Debbie.
