• Clean Your Diamonds

• Look After Your Gemstones

• Protect Your Precious Metals

• Safeguard Your Pearls

• Tend to Your Opals

• Keep Watches Ticking Longer

• Preserve Your Vintage Jewellery

• Care for Cameos

• Find Jewellery on eBay Singapore

• Buy Jewellery With Confidence

• Need More Help?

• Legal Disclaimer

Clean Your Diamonds

Clean Your Diamonds

Looking after your diamonds is essential in order to help them maintain their natural sparkle.

• Clean diamonds regularly: A variety of substances such as dust, skin oil, and others can cause your diamonds to lose their sparkle. Ensure you clean your diamonds regularly in soap and water. Then allow them to air dry before you polish them with a soft cloth.

• Store diamonds individually: Even though diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring substance on Earth, they can still chip. Prevent your jewels from bumping into each other by storing them individually in soft cloth pouches.

• Remove dirt from diamonds: Occasionally brush your diamonds, using a worn, soft-bristled toothbrush to help remove dirt from between crevices. For any resistant blemishes, try a weak solution of ammonia and water (approximately one part to four parts) and a soft brush.

• Care for metal jewellery settings: Metal settings should be treated gently as gold can scratch. Ask your jeweller regularly, to make sure your diamonds are sitting tight in their settings to avoid stones from falling out.

• Know the ins and outs of professional cleaning: A jeweller can clean diamonds with steam or ultrasound, although ultrasound can sometimes worsen internal fissures or flaws.

Look After Your Gemstones

Look After Your Gemstones

Ensure your gemstones always maintain both their colour and clarity.

• Regularly c lean your gemstones: Substances such as dust, skin oil, and others can cause your gemstones to lose their sparkle. Make sure you clean your gemstones regularly in soap and water, allowing them to air dry before you polish them with a soft cloth.

• Keep your gemstones individually stored: Your gems need their space so as to prevent chips from appearing. By individually storing your gemstones in soft cloth pouches, you will prevent them from bumping into each another.

• Remove dirt from gemstones: Occasional brushing of your gemstones with a worn, soft-bristled toothbrush can help remove any dirt from between crevices. Resistant blemishes may be treated by using a weak solution of ammonia and water (around one part to four parts) and a soft brush.

• Protect metal jewellery settings: Metal settings should be treated gently as gold can scratch. You should ask your jeweller to make sure your gemstones sit tight in their settings so as to prevent stones from falling out.

• Get a pro to clean your gemstones: Visit your jeweller annually for help with keep your gemstones clean and properly situated in their settings. A jeweller can clean gems with steam or ultrasound, but bear in mind that ultrasound can sometimes make internal fissures or flaws worse.

Protect Your Precious Metals

Protect Your Precious Metals

Wearing your jewellery everyday, including your gold jewellery, silver jewellery and platinum jewellery, requires even more effort on your part to take the proper steps to care for your precious metals so that they are always looking their best.

• Wear your precious metal jewellery with care: Avoid wearing your precious metal jewellery during any rough manual work or activities such as playing sport. Also avoid letting precious metals come in contact with harsh chemicals or abrasive surfaces.

• Regularly clean precious metal jewellery: Clean your gold jewellery and platinum jewellery with soap, water, and a cloth or soft brush if needed. Silver jewellery should be washed with soap and water, before drying thoroughly with a soft cloth. Clean tarnished silver with a commercial polish, paste, or tarnish-removing wipe. Silver polish may remove intentional oxidation (shading of the metal), requiring professional re-oxidation.

• Properly store your silver jewellery: Silver should be stored in a cool, dry and dark place. Avoid storing your silver jewellery directly on wood or plastic so that you can slow any tarnishing.

• Look out for any damage: Make sure you regularly inspect your jewellery for damage or loosening. If the need arises, take your jewellery to get professionally repaired.

• Take your jewellery for regular checkups: A professional jeweller can inspect precious metal jewellery to make sure any prongs and bezels remain intact.

Safeguard Your Pearls

Safeguard Your Pearls

Help your classic pearls keep their polish by following a few simple guidelines for maintenance:

• Put on your pearls last: Wear your pearls only after applying makeup, hairspray, perfume, deodorant or other potentially harmful substances that might stain them.

• Store pearls properly: As pearls aren't as hard as mineral gemstones, store your pearl jewellery in soft cloth, away from other jewels to prevent chipping.

• Clean your pearls: The best way to maintain your pearls is to wipe them after use with a soft cloth, like those used for eyeglasses. Don't clean your pearls with any type of solvent or abrasive. Unlike chemicals, the oils from your skin actually help to keep pearls moist, so even soapy water is unnecessary for cleaning pearls.     

• Restring your pearls: The professionals recommend restringing your pearls every few years, as strings can wear down and break if not maintained.

Tend to Your Opals

Tend to Your Opals

Opals require proper care to maintain their lustre and beauty. Consider the following points, in addition to advice from your jeweller:

• Store opals properly: Store your opals in a soft bag made of cloth to maintain their quality and shine. If you plan on storing your opal for an extended period of time, seal it in a plastic bag with slightly dampened cotton wool to help the stone retain its natural moisture and avoid cracking.

• Avoid extreme temperatures: Opals don't react well to extreme temperatures so avoid exposing them to very hot or cold temperatures. In addition, when you clean opals with water, do not use hot or boiling water.

• Clean your opals: Assembled opals like doublets and triplets use adhesive to keep the layers together. Submerging them in water however can give a murky appearance. Rather, use a damp, soft cloth and mild cleanser when cleaning opals. Avoid using any bleach, harsh chemicals, or abrasive agents that could scratch the stone.

• Consult the pros: If something happens to your opal, especially cracking or loss of lustre, then visit a professional to have it properly restored.

Keep Watches Ticking Longer

Keep Watches Ticking Longer

Follow a few simple tips to make sure your watches live long and healthy lives:

• Watch the temperature: Do not leave your watch in extreme hot or cold temperatures.    

• Keep your watch clean: Regularly clean your watch to remove sweat, oil and dirt. Use a soft cloth to wipe the crystal, case, and band. Although leather bands benefit from skin oil, you still want to remove excess dirt. Metal watch bands should be cleaned with soap, water, and a soft brush if needed. 

• Stay away from magnets: Avoid exposing quartz watches to magnets.    

• Take your mechanical watch to the pros: Take your mechanical watch to a professional when gears need cleaning, and for gear maintenance regularly every three to five years.

Preserve Your Vintage Jewellery

Preserve Your Vintage Jewellery

Vintage jewellery and antique jewellery pieces, deserve some special treatment so that their beauty and value can be preserved.

• Wear vintage jewellery with care: As vintage jewellery is difficult to repair, make sure you wear it with care. Remove any jewellery when using household cleaners and when doing physical activities.   

• Keep vintage jewellery stored separately: Protect your precious pieces from dust and other abrasive elements by storing jewellery separately in soft, zipped-up pouches.

• Use a jewellery polishing cloth: A special jewellery polishing cloth can help keep your jewellery dust-free.    

• Remove grime from vintage jewellery: Use a baby wipe or glass cleaner and a soft cloth to remove grime from stones.     

• Keep vintage jewellery dry: Never place antique jewellery and vintage jewellery directly under running water.

Care for Cameos

Care for Cameos

Cameos, and shell cameos in particular, require special care and maintenance as they can discolour and crack from drying and aging. Follow these simple tips to help keep your cameos clean and moisturised:

• Clean your cameos: Your cameos should be cleansed once or twice a year using a soft-bristle toothbrush in a mild soap-and-water solution. Rinse the cameo thoroughly with warm water immediately after cleaning. Never soak shell cameos or “soft” stones in any cleaning solution for over 30 seconds

• Store your cameos: Always store cameos in a clean, dry place.   

• Prevent cameos from drying: You can moisturise the cameo with mineral oil or baby oil. Apply the oil with your finger, a soft cloth or a cotton swab. Let the cameo soak overnight.

Find Jewellery on eBay Singapore

Find Jewellery on eBay Singapore

Once you know what type of jewellery you want, go to the Jewellery & Watches portal and start searching on eBay Singapore.

• Categories: The primary Categories list holds links to all the major jewellery categories on eBay Singapore, including Wristwatches, Loose Gemstones, Necklaces and more. Further Categories lists on the left side of each listings page will help you narrow down your items by subcategory.    

• Keyword search: Search eBay Singapore listing titles for specific words. For example, if you want to find an 18K gold bracelet, type "18K gold bracelet" (without quotation marks) into the Search box. Click "Search title and description" to expand your results. Visit eBay Singapore's Search Tips page for more tips on searching with keywords.

If you can't find exactly what you want, shop eBay Stores, or save a search on My eBay and eBay Singapore will email you when a match becomes available.

Buy Jewellery With Confidence

Buy Jewellery With Confidence

Before making your purchase, make sure you know exactly what you're buying, research your seller, and understand how eBay Singapore and PayPal protect you.

Know your purchase

Carefully read the details in item listings.

• Figure delivery costs into your final price. If you spend a lot of money, make sure the seller will insure the item when it is sent.

• If you want more information, ask by clicking the "Ask seller a question" link under the seller's profile.

• Always make sure to complete your transaction on eBay Singapore (with a bid or Buy It Now). Transactions conducted outside of eBay Singapore are not covered by eBay Singapore protection programmes.

• Never pay for your eBay Singapore item using instant cash wire transfer services through Western Union or MoneyGram. These payment methods are unsafe when paying someone you do not know.

Know your seller

Research your seller so you feel positive and secure about every transaction.

• What is the seller's Feedback rating? How many transactions have they completed? What percentage of positive responses do they have?

• What do buyers say in their Feedback? Did the seller receive praise?

• Most top eBay Singapore sellers operate like retail stores and have return policies. Do they offer a money-back guarantee? What are the terms and conditions?

Buyer protection

In the unlikely event that a problem arises during your transaction, eBay Singapore and PayPal are there for you.

• Pay safely with PayPal: PayPal enables you to pay without the seller ever seeing your bank account or credit card numbers. In fact, PayPal protects buyers 100% against unauthorised payments from their accounts. Plus, with PayPal Buyer Protection, your purchase can be covered up to US$1,000.

• eBay Singapore Security Centre: Visit the Security Centre to learn how to protect your account and use eBay Singapore's quick and efficient resolution tools.

Need More Help?

Need More Help?

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