TeNo - discover your desire

One of our Facebook fans took advantage of our campaign of asking us things you would like to know about TeNo and asked us the following question:

How do ceramics get into the steel and how are they held?

At first an example of a piece of jewellery with an inlay made of high tech ceramics – here you see the pendant Veena with ceramics and a brilliant.

Or rings with the typical TeNo inlay.

What a great number among you might not know – such jewellery inlays made of stainless steel are a great challenge. To make the inlays lay in the steel neatly and extremely accurately, the stainless steel at first is worked on with high technology and routed out with a CNC mortising machine – accurate to the millimetre. Without this highly technologic CNC technique, it would not be possible to create the typical straight forms of TeNo. (more …)

Titanium - the noble lightness of jewelry

Titanium – a word with a mysterious sound. It feels as good as it sounds. Titanium is highly valuable and extremely durable. A precious metal with extraordinary characteristics. Titanium embodies the Zeitgeist, is innovative and trend-setting. The first choice for aerospace technology, highly-esteemed by the medical profession, titanium has also long converted dynamic people to wearing it as jewelry. In the typical TeNo language of form, it’s now also available from TeNo: Titanium partner rings – designed for feelings.

Seeing and feeling the lifestyle
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Several blogs are reporting, that quite a few people are allergic to jewelry. However, there are ways to protect you from these allergies in case you have them. As this blog recommends, you can use nail polischer coats to avoid the direct contact of the jewlery with your skin. It might help, but I think it’s too bad about the designer jewelry. I bet it won’t look the same anymore. What many people don’t know, is that high quality stainless steel jewelry is almost nickelfree and therefor can even be worn by people with allergies.

In our last survey in our german blog we asked:  Do you use Facebook? We closed the survey today.

A breakdown of the results:

•    No, never. (47%, 47 votes)
•    Facebook? I don’t know it. (32%, 32 votes)
•    Yes, regularly. (13%, 13 votes)
•    Only every now and then. (8%, 8 votes)

Overall 100 people took part and have clearly shown that Facebook isn’t as popular yet in Germany as it is in other countries. In the USA and South Africa and, as we have learned from our Spanish sales distributor, LaRa, in Spain, too, Facebook is enormously popular.

And that’s why we recently started up a TeNo page at Facebook, which Raphael Cohen and his team have set up for TeNo. The first fans have already found each other. ;-) TeNo South Africa has also set up a FacebookGroup and it already has 70 members. :-)

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For most men the wedding ring still counts as the only allowed piece of jewellery. For others again jewellery is an expression of individual lifestyle. Our designers have taken up the challenge. With the use of stainless steel, leather, wood, rubber, high-tech-ceramics as well as other “masculine” materials they enhance the typical Teno look and TeNo feel. The TeNo-collection for men features well styled rings, chains, bracelets and bangles, cuff-links, tie-holders and watches. With these pieces masculine charisma isn’t understated. On the contrary, the user`s personality is greatly enhanced by wearing pieces of the TeNo Men’s Collection entirely manufactured in Germany. (more …)

Over and over again we receive inquiries whether our design jewelry is suitable also for people with allergy. Therefore, I would like to publish here an article which has appeared already a few years ago in one of our newsletters. Maybe there are also allergy sufferers among the readers who can report about their experiences with jewelry also ? Our design jewels manufactured in germany of the base metal stainless steel are also safe for persons with allergies. We are using two certified non-allergenic stainless steel alloys: stainless surgical steel (316L) and the stainless steel alloy 4305. They make TeNo jewelry safe even for those who suffer from a nickel allergy. As the name suggests, surgical steel is used in surgery and for surgical implants – among a number of other applications. People who had a complicated fracture may well have a plate or nail made of this highly biocompatible alloy in their bodies. Electrodes for pacemakers are also made of stainless steel. The alloy 316L does not give off nickel salt, and does therefore not cause what’s known as “nickel contact dermatitis”. Research at independent laboratories has shown that 316L emits less than 0.01 ug/cm2/week of nickel. And the numbers are even lower for the 4305 alloy. Legal regulations are very clear about the permissible nickel content in jewelry. Nickel allergies should be avoided before they can even manifest themselves, and those who have allergies need to be protected. Both alloys used by TeNo conform completely to the strict guidelines laid down in the European Union’s nickel regulations. With TeNo jewelry, wheter rings, armbands, bangles, pendants or watches, people with nickel allegy are always on the safe side.