white gold prongs - safety?

[dragonfly8]

I have read a lot of posts about white gold vs. platinum settings. My ring is 14k white gold with a delicate 4 prong setting holding about 0.6 carat stone. I love it because the prongs are thin and small. However, (kind of related to my other recent post about insurance) I knocked my ring last night on the stove while making dinner and the stone is now loose in the setting. I am so upset! I have only had the ring for a month and I know that it will get some getting used to - but I had no idea that it could bend so easily!

We asked the jeweler if white gold would be strong enough for the setting and he said yes no problem.

-Should we change the prongs only to platinum? Does anyone have pt prongs on gold rings? I think my mom did...
-Is this expensive to fix/tighten?
- Is this weird that it became loose after a bump?
- Is the point of the white gold security that it will bend but not snap off and so it's fine to have wg instead of pt because then you just go get it re-shaped not totally new prong replaced?

So many questions and so sad for my poor beautiful ring that is now sitting in its box until we go back to the jeweler and/or get some good answers from people.

 

[stone-cold11]

WG is more likely to snap off than Pt, not the other way.

How expensive a fix depends on how bad is the damage.

 

[dragonfly8]

thank you for your reply. so platinum prongs are always better?

 

[stone-cold11]

Not necessary better, depends also on how well design is the setting and how good the bench are with working with Pt/WG alloy. Some design are just not feasible with Pt. Some bench do not know how to work with/fabricate a Pt piece