Bespoke
Bespoke jewellery continues to grow in demand, offering consumers personalised, one-of-a-kind pieces while providing jewellers and designers with lucrative opportunities. For UK trade professionals, the bespoke market requires insight into customer trends, craftsmanship innovations, and marketing strategies to deliver tailored experiences. Jewellery Focus covers the bespoke sector in depth, including design processes, technology such as CAD and 3D printing, business case studies, and insights into scaling bespoke services within retail operations.
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Jan- 2019 -16 JanuaryAnalysis
The generation gap in contemporary jewellery
Over the last nine years I’ve been working with independent professional jewellers in London, providing training in CAD for jewellery manufacturing. While many of my students and colleagues would classify themselves as fine jewellers, there are many more who classify themselves as jewellery designer-makers. Whether they come from the 50-year-old…
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15 JanuaryVoice On The Highstreet
Voice on the High Street: Hancocks London
Name: Guy Burton, Hancocks London Location: London Year established: 1849 Number of staff: 10 Website: www.hancocks-london.com When was Hancocks founded? Hancocks was founded in 1849 by Charles Frederick Hancock, opening on the corner of Bond Street and Bruton Street. He was a quick mover; within a year of opening he…
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11 JanuaryFeatures
Getting the right Valentine’s Day jewellery
Valentine’s Day is the ultimate couples (or couples to-be) celebration, and naturally jewellery is high on the gift-list agenda. Stocking jewellery that will sell and which is up-to-the-minute in design terms during this period is essential for any jeweller who wants to make a healthy profit as well as offering…
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9 JanuaryVoice On The Highstreet
Voice on the High Street – Baileys & Sons
Can you tell us a little about the history of Baileys & Sons? My great-grandfather founded our family jewellery business in London in 1919. My family then moved to Amersham, where Hewitt’s Jewellers was created. In the 1950’s my grandfather joined the business and later on my father Nigel also…
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8 JanuaryProduct Launches
Fabergé launches new Dalliance timepiece
Fabergé has unveiled The Dalliance GemAddict – the latest of Fabergé’s bespoke timepiece designs. The Dalliance collection features a mechanical movement unique to Fabergé that sees the hands of the watch travel around the edge rather than the centre of the Grand Feu enamel face, creating a space where other…
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7 JanuaryBusinesses For Sale
Businesses for sale: Attractive business opportunity in picturesque Cornish fishing village
This is an amazing opportunity to acquire an existing, successful jewellery business with separate workshop included. Porthleven is a picturesque fishing village on the south coast of Cornwall, set between Land’s End and The Lizard with great local support and year round seasonal trade. The shop and the workshop [pictured]…
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3 JanuaryVoice On The Highstreet
Voice on the High Street – Rachel Jeffrey Contemporary Jewellery
Tell us a bit about your company From the age of 16 I enjoyed making jewellery as an evening class, and then I went through my art education which leaned heavily towards working with metal. I did my degree in jewellery and silversmithing, and after I graduated in 1992 I…
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2 JanuaryVoice On The Highstreet
Voice on the High Street: E.C One
Name: E.C.One Location: Clerkenwell, London Established: 1997 Number of staff: 10 Website: www.econe.co.uk Tell me about the history of EC One? E.C.One is celebrating its 21st birthday this month. We started in an old butchers shop in a rundown street in Clerkenwell. Over the past two decades, Alison and I…
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Dec- 2018 -11 DecemberFeatures
Voice on the High Street – Dower & Hall
Tell me about the history of Dower & Hall? My wife, Diane Hall, and I established Dower & Hall in 1990. After meeting at Middlesex University while studying jewellery design, I opened my studio in 1987 and Diane joined me after working as an in-house jewellery designer at various labels.…
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10 DecemberFeatures
Lowe & Sons reopening – A grand return
“It’s part of the local heritage, and when we closed down I was getting phone calls from Australia, America and France, from clients whose families have been dealing with us for over 100 years,” says Kevin Parry, the newly reinstated part-time manager of the recently reopened Lowe & Sons jewellery…
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