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Jewelry Abbreviations

Learn the most common abbreviations used in jewelry descriptions within Bravo, including terms for metals, stones, settings, and more, to ensure accurate inventory entries.

Due to space limitations, Jewelry items are listed in Bravo with abbreviations, and therefore can be hard to read.  If you don't know what you are looking at, it might be difficult to translate something listed as SYN OFPEA LDS RG STNSV 10DWT 7.  However with the proper knowledge, it is easier to read "Synthetic Mother of Pearl, Ladies Ring, Silver Stainless, 10 pennyweight size 7."

This guide will break down the different abbreviations used for Jewelry in Bravo.

Weight and Measurements:

  • DWT – Pennyweights (A pennyweight is a unit of measure that is equal to 24 grains or 1/20 of a troy ounce. Gold is measured by the troy ounce. There are 20 pennyweights per troy ounce.)
  • G – Grams (When calculating with grams, every troy ounce contains 31.1 grams.)
  • MM – Millimeter (length measurement)
  • “ – Inches (Length Measurement)
  • CM - Centimeter (Length Measurement)
  • CT – Carat (Diamond or Stone Measurement)
  • CTW – Carat Total Weight (Diamonds and Stones)
  • KT (or K) – Karat (gold purity measurement)

Metail and Purity:

  • 3T - Three Tone (Gold)
  • ANT - Antique Gold
  • BLK -Black Gold
  • CPR - Copper
  • GF - Gold Filled
  • GEP - Gold Electroplated
  • PT - Platinum
  • RG – Rose Gold
  • S - Silver
  • SP - Silver Plate
  • STNANTQ - Antique Stainless
  • STNBK - Black Stainless
  • STNSV - Silver Stainless
  • TNGANGQ - Antique Tungsten
  • TNGBK - Black Tungsten
  • TNGSV - Silver Tungsten
  • TTNANTQ - Antique Titanium
  • TTNBK - Black Titanium
  • TTNSV - Silver Titanium
  • WG – White Gold
  • YG – Yellow Gold

Style:

  • GTS – Gent’s (Gentleman’s)
  • LDS – Lady’s
  • RG – Ring
  • WED BAND – Wedding Band (ring)
  • WED SET - Wedding Set (ring)

Stones:

Note: Most stones are abbreviated with the first five letters of the stone name.  Included here is a list of Stones with abbreviations that do not follow this formula.  
  • SYN – Synthetic (Stones)
  • LAB – Lab Grown Diamonds
  • DIA(S) – Diamond(s)
  • BIXBI - Red Bixbite Beryl
  • EYECR - Cats Eye Crysoberyl
  • CZ - Cubic Zirconia
  • OFPEA - Mother of Pearl
  • STARS - Black Star Sapphire
  • OYSTE - Spiny Oyster

 

Let’s now break down how to look at a basic jewelry item

That one had very little information in the actual ring so you were able to see all the details about the ring. When you get into a ring that has many facets to it, the information of the ring gets smaller and smaller