TeNo - discover your desire

For many people, the best time of the year is coming: summer, the holiday period. Beautiful beaches, unforgettable moments, romantic evenings at the pool or at the sea. For several advertising campaigns we have remembered one of our classics: MemoRo, our small safe made from stainless steel.

We deliver it with a matching strip of parchment which can be covered with writing and kept in the little lockable safe. One can write on it oaths of love, oaths to be faithful or simply the name of one’s beloved partner. Perhaps a magic number, the date of anniversary or the name of a special place? Or something completely different? A bit of sand from the beach? A small curl? A sparkling stone? Whatever is small enough to fit in this handsome cylinder – for the person who wears it, it surely is precious.

MemoRo saves feelings, thoughts and memories. Just as everything from TeNo, also MemoRo is made in Germany.

And again Carlos from TeNo Store South Miami sent some of his new creations, called ThE EdGe CollEcTion. :-) The new way to look at TeNo pendants.

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Cuff links YaMo de luxx with Top Wesselton-brilliants si, mother-of-pearl inlay and satinised stainless steel

Important for the quality of a diamond is – beside the size, the grinding and the purity -the color or let’s say: the quality of its white color, whereas with white actually transparent is meant. The Gemologican Institute of America (GIA) distinguishs the transparancy of diamonds with the help of a scale from D until Z. D is the highest degree, delicious silver.

The alphabetical classification is the old system of judging diamonds, probably each of you heard about it before. There the best quality is called River and describes diamond in delicious white, which don’t fluoresce in day light. This ability have for example the stones from deposits in rivers, that’s why they’re named that way. Second are the diamonds in fine silver which are branded as Top Wesselton. All diamonds that are used in TeNo jewelry belong to this category.  So let’s take a closer look right away:

Pendant square small de luxx with 16 Top Wesselton-brilliants si (total of 0,128 ct.)

Diamonds of the third degree (white) are called Wesselton. This term goes back to the Wessolton-Mines in South Africa. These again was named after J.J. Wessels Sen., the owner  of the Benaaudheidfontein-Farm, who discovered in 1890 diamonds on his property.

The jewels that have an already yellowish shimmer belong to the quality degree Top Crystal and stand for slightly tinted white. The two next categories are named Top Cape and Cape. They include tinted, slightly yellowish diamonds and they were found at the Cape of Good Hope (therefore cape). Right at the end of the scale the colors Light Yellow and Yellow are found and differ clearly from spotless white diamonds.

The diamonds of the lower quality degree must not be taken for Fancy Diamond. Those are colored represents which are due to their rarity in great demand. But more about this at a later point…

As I read in this blog, people have used pearls on their wedding rings or on necklaces for centuries. And I didn’t realized until now, that this concept has been around for such a long time, even in the circle of royality. ;-)

So it’s a good thing that TeNo also offers a variaty of different rings and necklaces with different kinds of pearls, in all kinds of colors, as freshwater pearls for instants.

Also keep in mind that different colors symbolyze different things. Of cours, only if you are the traditional type of person. ;-)