I was so excited when I ordered this pendant on-line, and extremely disappointed when it arrived:(!!
As another reviewer said, if you want a plain, silver pendant, this is the thing for you. The colors and contrast in the item photo have been manipulated such that the gold appears more colorful, and the pendant's detail more apparent than they really are. From a distance, it just looks like a garbled piece of silver.
Furthermore, the pendant actually wraps around into a large loop at its back-this is great if you want to put the pendant on a really thick rope chain, but it prevents it from laying flat, and also in my case, from adding extra sparkle to spice it up a bit. I have two little mercury mist topaz pendants that I planned to add on either side of this pendant, and would have at least added something interesting, but the loop at the back is so large that they disappear into it!!
This pendant might have been salvageable if not for that loop! It's going back.