Goldsmithing
Goldsmithing is the time-honoured craft at the core of the jewellery trade, encompassing techniques from hand-forging and engraving to casting, finishing, and bespoke fabrication in precious metals. This artisanal skill underpins quality, creativity, and luxury across everything from traditional wedding bands to avant-garde designer pieces. Jewellery Focus offers rich, trade-led coverage of goldsmithing in the UK market—exploring evolving techniques, equipment innovation, materials sourcing, training and apprenticeships, studio efficiency, and the integration of digital design with traditional benchwork. Our reporting supports manufacturers, bespoke designers, suppliers, and bench jewellers by showcasing best practices, highlighting business models, and illuminating commercial strategies that enhance craftsmanship, productivity, and market differentiation in precious-metal jewellery.
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Jun- 2025 -27 JuneDesigners
Dior unveils Rouge Premier lipstick necklace
Dior has launched Rouge Premier, a lipstick necklace designed by Victoire de Castellane, artistic director of Dior jewellery, and Peter Philips, creative and image director for Dior makeup. The limited edition piece combines high-end cosmetics with jewellery design. The case, designed as a decorative object, is set with precious stones…
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20 JuneDesigners
Pomellato unveils ‘Collezione 1967’ high jewellery collection
Pomellato has launched ‘Collezione 1967’, a high jewellery collection of 75 pieces celebrating the brand’s design legacy. Framed as a “jewellery manifesto”, the collection draws on three decades of the Milanese house’s history, from chain-focused 1970s design to the sculptural 1980s and the chromatic explorations of the 1990s. Each piece…
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Apr- 2025 -22 AprilRetailers
Bvlgari opens ‘largest’ single-branded jewellery manufacturing site
Bvlgari has officially inaugurated the expansion of its ‘Manifattura in Valenza’ site, now the “largest” single-branded jewellery manufacturing site in the world, spanning 33,000 sqm. The expansion aims to double the site’s production capacity by 2029, creating over 500 new jobs, and houses the Scuola Bvlgari: the maison’s first publicly…
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17 AprilAppointments
The Goldsmiths’ Foundation appoints new inaugural director
The Goldsmiths’ Foundation, a non-profit organisation that focuses on advancing creative, technical, and vocational skills, particularly in goldsmithing, silversmithing, jewellery, has appointed Joseph Hallgarten as its inaugural director. With more than 20 years of leadership experience in the non-profit sector, Hallgarten is a respected educator and specialist in education policy…
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Feb- 2025 -26 FebruaryBrand Profiles
Wolf CEO Simon Wolf on celebrating 190 years of the brand and the future of luxury storage
Luxury watch and jewellery box brand Wolf celebrated its 190th anniversary last year and in December was also awarded the prestigious Butterfly Mark by Positive Luxury. It all began when Wolf’s great-great-grandfather, Philipp Wolf I, who was a silversmith in Hanau, Germany, an area still renowned for silver and goldsmithing…
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Jan- 2025 -27 JanuaryDesigners
Chaumet unveils new Bamboo capsule collection
Chaumet has announced the launch of Bamboo, its newest high jewellery creative capsule collection. This capsule features a total of 10 pieces, with designs inspired by the maison’s heritage. The collection features the use of articulation alongside the combination of bead bright and cut-down settings. Each of the 13 Chaumet…
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Jun- 2024 -17 JuneRetailers
Wolf appoints new UK&I sales director
Wolf, the 190-year-old luxury watch and jewellery storage brand, has announced the appointment of Christopher Strange as sales director UK and Ireland. Bringing over 20 years of experience in the watch and jewellery industry, his journey began as a bench jeweller, at an independent jeweller in Chelmsford after studying silversmithing,…
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Mar- 2024 -14 MarchTrade Organisations
The Goldsmiths’ Company makes Court of Assistants appointment
The Goldsmiths’ Company has announced the appointment of Jos Skeates as a new member of its Court of Assistants. Skeates has been elected for his commercial, social and environmental experience, and for his contributions to the craft and trade of goldsmithing. Equivalent to a non-executive board, the Court of Assistants…
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12 MarchRetailers
Laings opens new watch service centre in Glasgow
UK-based luxury family jeweller Laings has launched a new watch service centre in Glasgow following its £5m investment programme. The new centre, which is the first of its kind in Scotland, has been delivered through a £1.1m outlay. It comes as part of a wider £5m programme of works by…
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Nov- 2023 -13 NovemberTrade Organisations
Aston University receives grant for new jewellery training centre
The Goldsmith’s Company has given Aston University Engineering Academy (AUEA) a £500,000 grant for a new jewellery training centre. The new £1m institute will be based in the AUEA’s new vocational skills building, funded by the Goldsmiths Landmark grant plus match funding. The grant was awarded following a competitive application…
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