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Sterling Silver worn regularly requires less care than stored pieces. It will tarnish, especially when in contact with gases in the air, but with proper care sterling silver will remain lustrous. All our cufflinks and highland accessories are made from sterling silver, a metal containing at least 92.5% by mass of silver and 7.5% by mass of other metals, usually copper. Pure silver is too soft to create durable cufflinks, so to enhance its performance it is mixed. To care for Peter Johnston silver products we recommend a couple of practices: polishing and washing. Its best to use a soft cloth to apply a silver polish and wash off in sudsy water. Be sure to rinse and dry fully to restore to its original appearance. 

Cufflinks

Highland Accessories

Do you know your 'Hard Enamel' from your 'Soft Enamel'? It's Hard Enamel, also known as Vitreous Enamel, two hundred year old techniques that are used to craft our cufflinks. Time consuming hand work that requires great skill and patience, all the processes employed to make our cufflinks are done by hand and eye without any mechanical or automated assistance. Vitreous Enamel is glass that is first ground to a very fine powder, mixed with distilled water, applied by hand to the prepared metal background, heated with a gas torch to approximately 800 degrees celsius to fuse the glass to the metal. To achieve the excellent bright smooth finish and depth of enamel colour required for our cufflinks, this process is repeated many times on each piece. Take a look: