My wife is watching the jewelry show on QVC. The bracelets and necklaces come in gold, white gold, black gold, green gold, chocolate gold & rose gold.

I know pocket watch cases came in gold, white gold & green gold.

Were they available in any other shades of gold?

A lot of wrist watches were also marketed in rose gold... never heard of chocolate gold.

There are some great web search discussions on the metallurgy-amalgams involved in creating the common colors.

Even though I have not seen pocket watches marketed as "rose gold"... a few of my cases are every bit as much rose gold as the rose gold wrist watches I have.

Paul - did a search on chocolate gold, also called brown gold, and it appears to be legit.

Here's a link:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...-9&sp=1&qs=HS&sk=AS1

There's a sucker born every day... today was my turn in the barrel U-funny!

Paul - No sucker to it, it's real.

Here is a Wikipedia on colored gold alloys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold

Look under black gold for the process of making brown (or chocolate) gold.

Sorry,

I got side tracked by the chocolate candy gold coins...

I've had a couple of silver and rose gold watches, normally ladies from about 1900.

Hamilton-Wadsworth case Number 2 came in Yellow, White, Green and Rose Gold-Filled.

During a visit to Lindell's home one afternoon he placed three cases like in traffic light order, rose, yellow and green and then he pulled out a 14K solid gold white one. What a sight!

There are of course also gold cases with various color inlaid decorations depicting baskets of colored flowers and even birds. As Joe said above it all comes from the addition of different alloys.

Don

Brown gold is the stuff sold by the pound rather than by the ounce.

Don, that would be sight to behold, very cool.

Now, if we had a picture . . . Lin?

Thanks for posting, Don. Made my day!

BTW, we know what you like, Michael!

And you also, Paul!

i think rose gold is the most beautiful gold... just my .02 ...

and being from tx.. black gold comes in liquid form only...