Bespoke
Create something unique.
Most commissions begin with something that already exists — an inherited necklace, a stone out of an old ring, a photograph of a grandmother. Bring it in, and half the design gets decided in the first half hour.
The commission
Four stages, and you are present for all of them.
- 01
Discover
Tell us the idea, or bring the piece it has to sit beside.
Most commissions begin with something that already exists — an inherited necklace, a stone out of an old ring, a photograph of a grandmother. Bring it. Half the design decisions get made in that first half hour.
- 02
Design
Drawn at actual size, then worn in wax.
You will see the piece on paper at full scale, and then wear it in wax before any gold is committed. Most designs change at the wax stage, and the change is nearly always to reduce weight at the neck.
- 03
Craft
Four to ten weeks at the bench.
Casting or raising, filing, joining, setting, polishing. You are welcome at the workshop while it is being made — it is a fifteen-minute walk from the shop and we would rather you saw it.
- 04
Reveal
Fitted in daylight, tagged, and handed over.
Final fitting happens by the shopfront window rather than under the counter lamp, because that is closer to how you will actually see it. The tag carries every weight and the date it was finished.
Previously commissioned
Nothing here was made twice.
Materials
Your gold is welcome, and it is weighed in front of you.
Old jewellery is assayed at the counter and credited at fine weight against the day’s published rate. Stones are removed, checked and reset — and if a stone is too worn at the girdle to reset safely, we will say so rather than risk it.
Price a piece yourself- 24K gold
- Pure gold, 99.9%. Hallmarked, with the fineness stamped on the piece. Used where nothing has to be held — bangles, chains, plain bands.
- 22K gold
- The traditional Nepali jewellery standard, and what most of this shop leaves in. Hallmarked, and hard enough to hold a stone.
- Diamonds
- Certified above 0.30 ct. We will show you the stone under the counter lamp and in daylight before it is set.
- Coloured stones
- Ceylon sapphire, Burmese ruby, Zambian emerald, South Sea pearl. Matched across a set in one sitting.
- Repoussé and chasing
- Raised from sheet by hand. Cannot be cast, cannot be hurried, and is the reason antique work takes longest.
- Engraving
- Hand-cut inside a band or across a signet face. Machine engraving is available where the piece calls for it.
Begin
Tell us the idea.
A paragraph is plenty. If there is a piece it has to sit beside, or a photograph you keep coming back to, mention it — that is usually where the design actually starts.
Or simply come in. Keesha Plaza, New Road, Sunday to Friday, ten until seven.
Questions