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Most jewellery care guides begin with a long list of precautions. Don't shower with it. Don't sweat in it. Keep it away from chlorine, perfume, dish soap, sea water, sunscreen, the gym, the office, your actual life.
This one is different.
LUXONIUM — the proprietary alloy developed in the Kings Metallurgy Lab across 117 years of metals research — was engineered specifically for daily wear. That engineering changes the care conversation. Significantly.
Why LUXONIUM Requires So Little
The properties that make LUXONIUM exceptional for jewellery are the same properties that make it exceptionally low-maintenance.
It doesn't tarnish. The alloy resists oxidation at the molecular level — the same chemical process that turns silver black and dulls gold over years of wear simply doesn't take hold in LUXONIUM. You won't find yourself polishing it back to life after a month in the bathroom drawer.
It's waterproof. Not "splash-resistant" or "water-resistant to a certain depth." LUXONIUM is fully waterproof. The gym, the shower, the sea. It holds its finish under all of them.
It's sweat-proof. Sodium chloride — the salt from perspiration — is one of the most corrosive substances for standard jewellery metals. LUXONIUM is built to resist it. The ring you wear to the gym today will look the same on the day you get married.
It's hypoallergenic. No nickel. No reactive compounds. Skin sensitivity that rules out most gold alloys and nearly all silver pieces doesn't rule out LUXONIUM.
Four properties. Each one is the kind of thing another material has to warn you about.
Daily Maintenance — What to Do (And How Little It Is)
Most wearers find they need to do very little. Day to day, LUXONIUM's surface holds its finish without intervention.
What we recommend: a dry wipe when you take it off. A soft cloth — cotton, microfibre, the inside of a clean t-shirt — run lightly over the surface after wearing. Not because LUXONIUM needs rescuing. Because it's the habit that keeps surface grime from accumulating, and makes your weekly clean a one-minute job rather than a twenty-minute one.
That's it for daily maintenance.
Wearers who are frequently at sea, in industrial environments, or working near harsh chemicals will want to rinse under running water before wiping. The material tolerates this completely. The care is for surface residue, not for any sensitivity in the alloy itself.
The Three-Step Weekly Clean
For most Kings LUXONIUM wearers, once a week is sufficient. For daily-gym wearers or those in humid coastal environments, twice a week.
Step 1 — Warm water and a soft brush
Run your piece under warm water. Warm, not hot. Use a soft-bristled brush — an old clean toothbrush is perfect — to move across any textured surfaces: the individual links of a chain, the shoulders of a ring, the inner face of a cuff where skin oils collect. This dislodges anything that has settled into crevices during wear.
Step 2 — A drop of mild soap
One drop of mild dish soap in a bowl of warm water. Submerge the piece for thirty seconds, then move it gently with your fingers. LUXONIUM is stable against standard household surfactants — unlike silver, which reacts to certain soaps, or white gold, which can lose its rhodium plating with repeated exposure to even mild cleansers.
Step 3 — Rinse and dry
Rinse under clean running water. Dry with a soft, lint-free cloth. No aggressive rubbing — LUXONIUM holds its finish through daily life, but no metal benefits from repeated friction against rough materials. A few light passes, and you're done.
Total time: approximately two minutes. Total cost: a drop of dish soap.
What to Avoid
LUXONIUM tolerates more than almost any other jewellery metal. But "tolerates more" is not the same as "tolerates everything."
Ultrasonic cleaners
The vibration-based cleaning method used by some jewellers works well on diamonds and certain hardstones, but the mechanical stress can loosen settings on gemstone-set pieces over time. For plain LUXONIUM without stones, ultrasonic cleaning is safe. For set pieces, professional servicing is the better choice.
Bleach and harsh oxidising chemicals
Household bleach, pool-cleaning compounds, industrial solvents. LUXONIUM resists them better than gold or silver. But these substances are aggressive by design, and there is no reason to expose any fine jewellery to them deliberately.
Abrasive polishing compounds
Products marketed for silver or gold polishing often contain micro-abrasives. They will not corrode LUXONIUM, but they will work against the engineered surface finish — matte becomes scratched in ways that are not uniform; a brushed surface begins to look irregular rather than intentional. For polished-finish LUXONIUM, a soft jeweller's cloth is all that is ever required.
Storage
LUXONIUM doesn't need a humidity-controlled environment. It will not oxidise in a drawer, tarnish in a bag, or react to contact with other metals over time.
What matters is physical protection — not for LUXONIUM's integrity, but for its surface finish.
Store pieces individually in soft-lined boxes or pouches. Not because the material is fragile, but because two hard metal surfaces in prolonged contact will eventually mark each other — regardless of what either is made from. This is physics, not a flaw.
For travel, a cloth wrap around each piece in the inner pocket of a washbag is adequate. The elaborate humidity-controlled jewellery cases built for precious gem collections are unnecessary for LUXONIUM. The material doesn't demand ceremony. It only asks that you don't leave it loose in a bag next to your keys.
The Care Comparison — LUXONIUM Against Other Metals
For Indian wearers who maintain gold pieces at home — the annual professional clean, the polishing cloth after every monsoon season, the careful removal before the gym and the shower — the shift to LUXONIUM as a daily-wear piece changes the rhythm of ownership entirely.
Gold in 22-karat form is soft. It scratches, bends slightly under contact pressure, and loses surface quality in ways that compound over years of wear. A piece that left the showroom with a mirror finish will show its life within months unless it is consistently maintained.
Sterling silver tarnishes within weeks in normal wear conditions. The black oxidation layer is chemically inevitable in any humid environment — and in India, where seasonal humidity levels can sit at 80% and above, silver maintenance becomes a near-constant exercise.
Platinum is harder and more structurally stable than gold, but develops a lived-in patina with wear. A frosted, softened look that some wearers appreciate but others find far from the original surface. Professional polishing restores it. This is an ongoing cost, not a one-time one.
LUXONIUM's maintenance curve is almost flat. A weekly two-minute clean with household soap. A soft-cloth wipe at the end of each day. No professional intervention required between annual inspections, no seasonal polishing, no removal before the gym or the swimming pool or the rain.
The jewellery built around your actual life doesn't ask much from you in return. That was always the intention.
When to Visit a Professional
Even the most durable materials benefit from professional attention occasionally.
Once a year — or once every two years for lighter wearers — bring your LUXONIUM pieces to a Kings-authorised service partner for inspection. A professional will check setting security on gemstone pieces, clasp tension on chains and bracelets, and general structural integrity. Not because LUXONIUM weakens over time. Because settings can shift, clasps wear, and catching a loose prong early costs less than losing a stone later.
The inspection itself, including a professional clean that restores the surface to its original finish, takes approximately fifteen minutes.
That is the full maintenance schedule for a decade of daily wear.
A Final Note
Gold has five thousand years of care rituals behind it. Polishing cloths and humidity drawers and the quiet instruction — passed from mothers to daughters, from jewellers to customers — to remove it before you live your actual life.
LUXONIUM was built for the man who wears his jewellery into every part of it.