Quality Counts

Too often, and too late, many jewelry customers discover that not all jewelry is really what it appears to be.  Here's what you should know about our products:

All jewelry items that we manufacture are made using only the very  finest materials.  This means that our gold items are made of virgin plumb gold.  This means that the exact percentage of pure gold for the Karat.  By example, 18K should be 18/24th (75%) pure gold and not less.  14K gold items should be made of 14/24ths (.583%) pure gold and not less.  All the gold that we use is of the proper purity; it is all plumb gold.  We use  plumb gold exclusively, and every item that we make originally starts out as an expertly hand carved wax model.

Recycled gold is less costly and the color fluctuates.   Some other jewelry manufacturers use recycled scrap gold but do not admit to.  Fine plumb gold and Sterling Silver are all that we use, even when an item has different overlays each separate overlay is made of the pure virgin precious metal.  No junk allowed. 

No Mass Production

Everything we make is individually hand crafted, much as they were made many years ago.  No assembly line.  No stamping by heavy machinery (the way coins are made).  A highly talented artist hand carves the original design in wax.  A casting and mold specialist then creates the molds and the casting.  The casting then passes on to a very expert and experienced finishing specialist.  Experienced experts do all of the finishing work on every piece that we build.  Our jewelers are artists.  We build only one piece at at time, start to finish.  Each step in the process is performed by people who are true masters at their crafts.

Our Photographs

Despite the beauty of our photographs they do not do justice to the actual beauty of our jewelry.  This is true with regard to color, contrast and depth.  It is virtually impossible to render exact pictures on web pages so that they will show up accurately on the monitors of our visitors.  This is true for all images displayed on the web.  The future may be different when technology improves, but for now photographic rendition is not what we would all like it to be.  The "real thing" is far more beautiful than can be portrayed on our pages.