Diamond stars are associated with A. E. Köchert, the Viennese atelier founded in 1814 and known for its Sisi designs. Its Neuer Markt address places commissioned jewellery within the same house as that historical motif. Bergen's Arven works in silverware and jewellery, with a goldsmith workshop behind the business established in 1868. Naples's Barbarulo / Gemelli da Polso (4 generations) makes cufflinks and studs, continuing the goldsmith atelier Raffaele Barbarulo founded in 1894.
Imperial and Royal Court Jeweller since 1814 — the Vienna house that made Empress Sisi's diamond stars, still crafting haute joaillerie in its own Neuer Markt atelier, six generations on.
Best for Bespoke haute joaillerie and the Sisi stars.
Parisian medal-maker and jeweler since 1803 — christening medals, Académie swords and fine gold charms. The current presidential Grand Collier of the Legion d honneur, first given to Vincent Auriol on 1 December 1953, was made by Arthus-Bertrand (Grande Chancellerie press dossier).
Best for Christening medals, Académie swords, and gold charms since 1803
Arthus-Bertrand traces its origins to 1803, when Claude Arthus-Bertrand, a former military officer with a strong interest in scientific exploration, established a Paris bookshop and publishing house; he went on to serve as official publisher to the French Naval Ministry, releasing accounts of contemporary expeditions. The company's present identity as a medal and jewelry house dates to 1889, when the marriage of Claude's grandson to Marie-Adelina Marion -- daughter of the owner of a military embroidery and insignia workshop -- merged the two family businesses. The combined firm went on to manufacture France's Legion of Honor medals and decorations for the French state, along with académie swords, civic and military honors for roughly fifty countries, and fine jewelry. Arthus-Bertrand holds the official French government designation "Entreprise du patrimoine vivant" (Living Heritage Enterprise), recognizing rare artisanal know-how, and the house has engraved the ceremonial grand collar of the Legion of Honor worn by every French president at inauguration since Vincent Auriol in 1953, each one personalized with the president's name and military insignia. The firm's clientele has historically included Napoleon III and successive French ministries. Today Arthus-Bertrand operates multiple Paris boutiques, including long-established locations on rue Royale and rue Bonaparte, alongside its continuing state and institutional decoration work.
Arven is a Bergen house for handcrafted silverware and unique jewellery made in Bergen. Founded in 1868; Made through the Bergen gold- and silversmith workshop.
Best for Handcrafted silverware and unique jewellery made in Bergen
Atelier STOESS is a Wiesbaden jeweller and official Rolex dealer since 1886, with an in-house watchmaking workshop and goldsmith atelier. The store sells fine jewellery and watches both in its boutique and through its online shop.
Best for Official Rolex dealership plus in-house watchmaking and goldsmith work since 1886
Kluuvikatu 1, 00100 Helsinki, Finland / Helsinki / Finland
Alexander E. Tillander opened a St Petersburg goldsmith shop in 1860 (imperial-court supplier); Torbjörn founded the present Helsinki atelier in 1956; sixth-generation workshop still handmakes jewellery in central Helsinki (Finnish Wikipedia; Homo Faber).
Best for Six-generation Helsinki goldsmithing and handmade jewellery.
Aucella has made coral jewelry and hand-carved cameos in Torre del Greco since 1892, working in red, white and pink coral alongside shell and agate cameos, pearls, turquoise and other hardstones. The firm is referenced with Assocoral and carries its own 925byAucella and Amami Pearls lines.
Naples goldsmith atelier founded 1894 by Raffaele Barbarulo, documented via his 1894 marriage record; now run by his great-grandson Cristiano Barbarulo, the fourth-generation jeweller, since 2012.
Best for Neapolitan cufflinks and studs.
Barbarulo Napoli 1894 is a family goldsmith's workshop in Naples specializing in handmade cufflinks and jewelry. Its founding is dated to 1894 via an act of marriage recording founder Raffaele Barbarulo's trade as a goldsmith in the province of Naples that year. The business passed down through the family across four generations; Cristiano Barbarulo, Raffaele's great-grandson, took over running the atelier in 2012 as the last direct descendant still active in the trade, continuing the handcrafted production methods while developing the range further. The workshop is known for bespoke cufflinks and has supplied pieces used in film, including for Michael Caine in Youth and Geoffrey Rush in The Best Offer.
Boucheron was the first jeweler to open on Place Vendôme, moving to No. 26 in 1893 though the maison had already existed since 1858. Its designs include the Serpent Bohème, the Quatre ring, and the clasp-free question-mark necklace.
Best for Quatre ring, Serpent Bohème
Frédéric Boucheron was the first of the great jewelers to move to Place Vendôme, opening at No. 26 in 1893 — legend says he chose the sunniest corner of the square so his diamonds would catch the light. The maison had already existed since 1858; the address made it an institution, and every rival that followed was, in effect, moving into Boucheron's neighborhood.
The house style has always been more daring than its neighbors'. The Serpent Bohème, born of a protective serpent necklace Frédéric made for his wife Gabrielle, coils through the catalogue; the Quatre ring stacks four of the maison's codes — gold grosgrain, clous de Paris — into modern architecture; the question-mark necklace, clasp-free and asymmetric, scandalized and seduced the Belle Époque. Under creative director Claire Choisne the high-jewelry collections have become the square's avant-garde — jewels in titanium, rock crystal, even sand.
Now part of Kering, Boucheron keeps its salons above the original shop — 26 Place Vendôme, still the sunniest corner.
Rome jewelry house founded in 1884 by Greek silversmith Sotirio Bulgari, who opened his first boutique on Via Sistina; the flagship moved to Via dei Condotti in 1905, where it became a fixture of Rome's 'Dolce Vita' era. Known for the Serpenti coil motif and bold cabochon-set high jewelry.
Best for Serpenti jewels and Roman high jewelry.
Jewelry houses borrow from antiquity; Bulgari behaves like its heir. Founded in Rome in 1884, the house works as if the classical world were not a museum but a supplier — coins set into gold, cabochons cut bold and domed where Paris whispers in facets, colored stones combined with an appetite the Romans would have recognized as their own. The result reads instantly: this is jewelry from the city of emperors, made by a house that never saw a reason for restraint to be the only form of taste.
The Serpenti is the thesis worn on the wrist: a snake of gold and enamel coiling as if excavated from a villa and improved by modern hinges — antiquity, engineered. It slithers through the house's history from watches to high jewelry, the emblem of a maison that treats glamour as a Roman birthright. Via Condotti, at the foot of the Spanish Steps, is the ancestral address: the boutique where the dolce vita bought its jewels and the twentieth century's most photographed women stopped between films.
Everything is handcrafted in Rome from precious stones and metals, and the Roman-ness is not a marketing note but a working method — the boldness of scale, the saturation of color, the conviction that a jewel should be seen across a piazza. Paris made jewelry an etiquette. Rome, through Bulgari, kept it an appetite.
Rome jewelry house founded in 1884 by Greek silversmith Sotirio Bulgari on Via Sistina; the Doha boutique occupies the upper ground floor of Place Vendôme Mall.
Best for Bold jewellery, fine watches, and fragrances from an Italian luxury house
Bulgari traces to 1884, when Sotirio Bulgari — a Greek silversmith born Sotirios Voulgaris in Paramythia — opened a shop on Rome's Via Sistina after building a reputation among English tourists on the Grand Tour for hand-forged silver ornaments and antiques. By the late 1890s he had opened further Italian branches in Sanremo, Naples, Bellagio and Sorrento, and the house went on to become one of Rome's defining jewelry names, known for bold colored-gemstone settings and its Serpenti and B.zero1 lines.
The Doha boutique sits within Place Vendôme, a roughly 1.15-million-square-metre mall built around French classical architecture, on the upper ground floor at unit 013, alongside other maisons including Dior, Cartier and Louis Vuitton. Bulgari also operates additional Doha locations, including a boutique at Doha International Airport and one at Villaggio Mall, reflecting the brand's broader footprint in Qatar's retail market.
The listing covers jewelry, watches, leather goods and fragrance in line with Bulgari's standard maison assortment; nothing in available sourcing indicates Doha-specific product exclusives.
Paris jeweler founded in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier; earned a royal warrant in 1856 and the title 'jeweler of kings'; introduced the Santos watch (1904), the Tank (1917), the panther motif (1914), and the Love bracelet (1969).
Best for Love bangles and Tanks.
"The jeweler of kings, the king of jewelers" — the phrase attached itself to Cartier because the client ledgers made it undeniable: crowned heads across Europe and beyond commissioned from the house, and the royal warrants accumulated like the pearls in its inventories. Since 1847, Cartier has occupied the precise point where jewelry becomes language — and its vocabulary is the most fluent in the business.
Three words do most of the talking. The Tank, born from the geometry of the machine age, made the rectangular watch permanent — a shape so correct it has never needed rescue or revival, only continuation. The Love bracelet turned commitment into hardware: an oval of gold that closes with its own screwdriver, jewelry as a small ceremony of intention. And the panther — Cartier's great familiar — prowls across brooches, rings, and watches, muscled in diamonds and onyx, the house's wildness kept precisely under control.
Made in France, the pieces travel as a portable court: wherever gold is taken seriously, Cartier's grammar is already understood. This Florentine address on Via della Vigna Nuova places the house in the city that practically invented the goldsmith's art — a respectful visit from the jeweler who went on to dress the kings Florence's bankers once financed. The red box, the screw motif, the panther's gaze: a hundred and seventy years of luxury's most complete sentence, still being written.
A family jewellery house trading since 1899, Charles Greig pairs its own designed and manufactured fine jewellery with luxury Swiss timepieces at its Victoria Wharf boutique. Four generations have run the firm, whose bench work sits alongside its watch retailing.
Best for Heritage fine jewellery and watches
Charles Greig arrived in South Africa from Scotland aboard the RMS Scot in 1894, stepping ashore in Cape Town. In 1899 he founded his watchmaking and jewellery business in Johannesburg at the height of the gold boom. The firm became the first in South Africa to import and sell Rolex watches, a relationship the family dates to the early 1900s. In the 1950s his son David completed a year's watchmaking course in Switzerland and joined the business. The grandsons Christopher, Donald and Richard Greig took the firm forward. A fifth generation now shares the custodianship with Tammy Greig. Christopher and Richard remain involved in the jewellery side, while Donald pursued sculpture. In 2026 the family opened a Rolex boutique at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, linking the city where the founder landed with the one where he built the business. Among the pieces shown there is a cushion-shaped Rolex dated by the watchmaker's historical department to between 1916 and 1918. Beyond retail the firm supports conservation projects and sports academies, with young artists alongside.
Napoleon’s jeweler on Place Vendôme — Joséphine tiaras, Bee My Love honeycombs and imperial heritage. after making Napoleon's coronation sword and Pius VII's tiara, Nitot became jeweller to the imperial court and appointed supplier to Empress Joséphine (block dated 1804–1815). Son François-Regnault moved workshops to Place Vendôme no. 15 in 1812 (now the Ritz).
Best for Joséphine tiaras and Bee My Love honeycomb jewelry from Napoleon's Place Vendôme
Chaumet's founding client list needs only one name: Napoleon. Marie-Étienne Nitot, who established the house in 1780, became the Emperor's official jeweler — the coronation crown, the consular sword bearing the Regent diamond, and tiaras for both empresses, Joséphine and Marie-Louise. The maison has traded on that imperial intimacy ever since; Joséphine is not a muse here but a product line.
The tiara remains the house signature — Chaumet has made more than 3,500 of them, and its Place Vendôme salons keep a museum of nickel-silver tiara maquettes that reads like a crown registry of Europe. The Bee My Love collection turns Napoleon's imperial bee into honeycomb pavé; Liens ties its knots through wedding registers.
The maison has occupied 12 Place Vendôme since 1812 — Chopin died upstairs — and its grand salon still looks onto the column cast from Austerlitz cannon. Two centuries after the coronation, Chaumet remains what it was hired to be: the jeweler of French sovereignty, now sold by the carat.
French silversmith since 1830 — Mood egg flatware capsules and the art de la table of embassies. In 1842 Charles Christofle bought the patents for silver and gold electroplating and, official text says, was the only patent holder in France for 15 years; Louis-Philippe ordered a service for Château d’Eu.
Best for Mood egg flatware capsules and embassy-grade silver tableware since 1830
Charles Christofle, a jeweler by training, acquired the French patents for electroplating in 1842 and turned silver from aristocratic hoard into republican splendor — Christofle, founded 1830, became goldsmith to King Louis-Philippe, then to Napoleon III, whose imperial table it laid entire. The Tuileries burned; the craft survived; the house has set the French state's grandest tables ever since, embassies and Élysée included.
The catalogue is table history itself: Marly's rococo flourish, the Art Deco masterpieces of the 1920s and 30s created with Gio Ponti and Luc Lanel — the house's Normandie ocean-liner commissions remain collector grails — and the Mood egg, a mirrored capsule holding service for six, which made silverware an object of desire for apartments without butlers.
Production continues at the Normandy ateliers in Yainville with silversmithing's full trade intact. Owned by the Chalhoub family group since 2012, Christofle remains the argument France perfected: that civilization is measurable in the weight of a fork.
Tracing its roots to an 1885 Helena jewellery house, Eaton Turner cuts and sets Yogo and other Montana sapphires on-site at its North Montana Avenue store. Master goldsmith Corey Johnson and his family run the shop, offering custom design and heirloom repair.
Rome vintage-jewelry house that grew out of an 1894 cafe near Piazza di Spagna; Pietro Eleuteri turned it into an antiques shop in 1963, and his son Carlo built it into Italy's leading dealer in antique and vintage jewelry, headquartered on Via Condotti.
Best for Collector estate jewels.
Eleuteri's Rome address at Via Condotti 79 has a history that predates jewelry: in 1894 an elegant cafe opened at nearby Via del Gambero 7. The shift to jewelry came in 1963, when Pietro Eleuteri, a collector with a passion for ancient art, opened an antiques shop on the site. His son Carlo went on to specialize in vintage and antique jewelry, building what is now widely regarded as Italy's foremost destination for the category. Eleuteri has since expanded with boutiques in Milan, Venice, Cortina, Porto Cervo, St. Moritz and New York, and has lent pieces to institutional exhibitions including the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.
Founded in 1878 by German immigrant Wilhelm Faller, Faller the Jeweller is a family-run jeweller on Strand Road now in its third generation. It designs and makes pieces in an on-site workshop, including Irish-inspired heritage collections.
Stephen Faller opened his Galway jewellers in 1879, and the shop on Williamsgate Street has made Claddagh and Celtic rings ever since. In 1963 the family presented Claddagh rings to John and Jacqueline Kennedy during their visit to Ireland.
A landmark of Sicilian jewellery since 1890, Fiorentino has returned to Via Liberta with cases of Marco Bicego, Salvini, Piero Milano and Mattioli alongside its own creations. The Palermo boutique offers bespoke commissions and ships nationally through its online shop.
Best for Landmark of Sicilian jewellery since 1890
The Glaser family has worked precious metals in Erfurt since 1810, and the current studio designs and hand-makes rings, necklaces and commissions to order. Under the Uli Glaser Design name it pairs traditional goldsmithing with contemporary forms.
Hamilton & Inches has made and sold jewellery and silver as well as watches in Edinburgh since 1866. Founders Robert Inches and his uncle James Hamilton registered their hallmark with the city's assay office that year. The firm moved from Princes Street to 87 George Street in 1952 and holds a royal warrant as goldsmiths and silversmiths. Its showroom was restored in 2021 with Scottish whinstone and antique bronze.
Best for Fine jewellery and silver
Hamilton & Inches was founded in Edinburgh in 1866 by Robert Inches and his uncle James Hamilton. They registered their hallmark with the Edinburgh assay office on 1 June that year. The firm began on Princes Street and moved in 1952 to 87 George Street in the New Town. That single showroom remains its home. It has held a royal warrant to the British monarch as goldsmiths and silversmiths and as clock and watchmakers for more than 120 years. It also kept the royal clocks in Scotland for generations, a role renewed in 2010 as silversmiths and clock specialists to the Queen. Robert Inches helped found the city's association of goldsmiths and watchmakers in 1903 to keep shoddy goods off the market. The company passed to his son Edward. Asprey acquired it in 1992, and a management buyout in 1998 returned it to independent hands. Beyond jewellery and silver, and the watch trade, it makes sporting trophies, among them the Scottish Open and the Lanark Silver Bell. Queen Elizabeth II visited in 2016 to mark 150 years of business. The showroom was restored in 2021, clad in Scottish whinstone outside with curved glass set in antique bronze within.
Heimen Husfliden has developed and sewn Norwegian bunads and husflid goods since 1892, offering regional folk costumes, hand-forged bunad silver and yarn. Customers book measuring and fitting appointments at its two Oslo stores or buy silver and accessories through the online shop.
Best for Bunad, folk costume, silver jewellery, handcraft, knitting yarn
The house traces its origins to 1865, when Don Theodoris Weerasiri opened a jewellery store on Chatham Street in the Fort, and it was revived in 1984 under D. B. Enterprise. Its showrooms now sell Ceylon gem-studded necklaces, pendants and made-to-order engagement rings from Colombo City Centre in Colombo 2 and One Galle Face mall.
A family-run silversmith with a shop and workshop producing hand-hammered cutlery and tableware. Jean-Paul Vaugoin is the sixth-generation owner; the company was founded in 1847.
Best for Hand-hammered silver cutlery and tableware from a sixth-generation silversmith founded in 1847
A family jeweler and watchmaker with an in-house goldsmith workshop. Munich locals and visitors have bought jewelry here for roughly 150 years. Established 1868.
Best for Family jewelry and watches, in-house goldsmith workshop, since 1868
A fixture in the center of Oberstaufen since 1894 and now in its fourth generation under watchmaker Martin Schädler, Juwelier Köhler carries a broad range of jewelry and watches for every taste. Its Bahnhofstraße shop also runs a master workshop handling repairs and warranty work.
Best for Jeweler, watches, wedding rings, goldsmith, jewelry
Documented since 1830 as the watch shop of Karl Liedl, this Taubenmarkt jeweler has operated continuously for nearly two centuries and became one of Austria's first Rolex concessionaires in 1954, granted directly by founder Hans Wilsdorf. The S.M. Wild family took over the business in 2012, keeping the historic name while dealing in watches, diamonds, and pearls alongside its own jewelry.
Enzo Liverino 1894 has made coral and shell cameo jewelry in Torre del Greco since 1894, produced across five generations of the Liverino family. The company is based on Via Montedoro and references the CIBJO Coral Book and sustainable-coral standards.
Five generations of the Liverino family working the red gold of the Bay of Naples since 1894 — an atelier of coral and semi-precious sculpture with a museum of a thousand pieces gathered by Cavaliere Basilio Liverino.
Best for Coral sculpture and jewellery from the Torre del Greco tradition.
A Bahraini family pearl house trading since 1850, MATTAR crafts jewelry from natural Gulf pearls gathered by licensed local divers and set in 18K gold, with DANAT certificates of authenticity. Its direct online store lists priced pieces alongside signature and bespoke commissions offered on enquiry.
Best for Natural-pearls, pearl-jewelry, 18k-gold, bespoke, Bahraini-heritage
French jewelry house founded in Paris in 1827; moved to 20 Place Vendome in 1946 alongside Boucheron, Chaumet and Van Cleef & Arpels, and became known for opening a more accessible boutique line in 1955.
Best for Place Vendôme jewelry style made accessible, at an approachable entry price.
Maison Mauboussin was founded in Paris in 1827, and built its reputation through 19th-century world's fair exhibitions, including a medal at the 1878 Paris Exposition and a Grand Prix at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs. In 1946 the house moved to 20 Place Vendome, joining fellow jewelers Boucheron, Chaumet and Van Cleef & Arpels. In 1955 Mauboussin opened a boutique selling smaller-scale, less expensive pieces aimed at a broader clientele.
Orafi Rotolo has made gold and silver jewelry in the Scanno tradition since 1884, under master goldsmith Francesco Rotolo. In 2012 the workshop patented Il Gioiello del Tombolo, a design pairing tombolo lace-work by Federica with goldsmithing.
Founded in 1886 in Bowbazar, Kolkata's traditional jewellery quarter, this family-run house grew from a single goldsmith's shop into a multi-generation gold, diamond, and bridal jewellery business. It still trades on Bengali craftsmanship traditions for pieces like the tabij and cabling-work bangles associated with the city.
Best for Bengali gold and bridal jewellery from an 1886 house
Payne & Son has traded as jewellers and silversmiths in Oxford since 1889, run by the same family at 131 High Street. It sells designer and gemstone jewellery, new and second-hand silverware, and takes commissions for bespoke pieces.
Best for Jewelry, silversmithing, watches, silverware
Established in 1841, Robertson & Watt is a Scottish family jeweller, trading from 72-73 High Street opposite the Caird Hall. The shop carries jewellery, watches and giftware, and offers repairs, pearl restringing and valuations, still run day-to-day by the family.
Best for Fine jewellery, watches and repairs from a long-established family shop
New York’s blue-box jeweler since 1837 — the Tiffany Setting, Elsa Peretti and Schlumberger under LVMH stewardship. The Fifth Avenue store, open on this corner since 1940, reopened in April 2023 as The Landmark after the LVMH-era renovation.
Best for Blue-box classics.
The blue box precedes the jewelry. Charles Lewis Tiffany opened his New York store in 1837 and spent the century turning American retail into theater: the first retail catalogue, the acquisition of the French Crown Jewels in 1887 that earned him the nickname "King of Diamonds," and the six-prong Tiffany Setting of 1886, which lifted the diamond off the band and became the default grammar of the engagement ring worldwide.
The house's design history is unusually deep for a jeweler its size — Jean Schlumberger's enameled fantasies (Jackie Kennedy's bracelets), Elsa Peretti's Bone cuff and Open Heart, Paloma Picasso's graffiti. Audrey Hepburn at the Fifth Avenue window in 1961 fixed the brand in cinema permanently.
Under LVMH since 2021, the maison has been polished hard — the Landmark flagship on Fifth Avenue rebuilt as a ten-floor museum of itself. The robin's-egg blue, trademarked as a color, remains the point: no other house is identified that completely by a shade.
Poland's oldest jewelry company, tracing to an 1840 Poznan workshop; renamed W.Kruk after Wladyslaw Kruk took over in 1893, it's now a national chain of 160+ stores, Poland's exclusive Rolex (2004) and Patek Philippe (2020) representative, with a manufactory near Poznan.
Best for Jewellery, watches
W.KRUK's history begins in 1840, when Leon Skrzetuski opened a workshop in Poznan producing liturgical items and made-to-order jewelry. His nephew, Wladyslaw Kruk, took over the business in 1893 and became the first jeweler in the Poznan market to publish an illustrated catalog; in 1896 he opened the first salon under the W.Kruk name. The firm expanded into Swiss watch brands between the wars, modernized production starting in 1974, and listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2003. It became Poland's official Rolex representative in 2004 and Poland's exclusive Patek Philippe representative in 2020. Today W.KRUK operates more than 160 stores across Poland.
Walter Bull & Son sells modern and pre-owned jewellery at 10 Dyer Street in Cirencester. Its family business traces its roots to an earlier London firm established in 1815 and moved to Cirencester in 1965. An on-site workshop handles repairs and restoration, with remodelling also available.
Best for Pre-owned jewellery and on-site repairs
Walter Bull & Son traces its history to a London jewellery and pawnbroking business established in 1815. Walter Bull himself was born later and eventually purchased that business, so the date should not be read as his personal founding year. John and Jean Gegg brought the firm to Cirencester in 1965. Today the shop is at 10 Dyer Street, with James Gegg continuing the family connection. Its range includes modern jewellery as well as antique and pre-owned pieces. The merchant says pre-owned jewellery is checked in its on-site workshop. The individual listing reflects its condition and any limitations. That makes the description of a particular ring or brooch more useful than assuming all older pieces have identical condition. Workshop services include repairs and restoration, with remodelling available for a piece that no longer suits its owner. Customers can discuss sizing in the shop before committing to work. The local workshop does not establish a British manufacturing origin for every antique or resale item in the catalogue.
Weir & Sons has traded from the corner of Grafton Street and Wicklow Street since 1869, its curved windows a fixture of Dublin's main shopping street. The family-run house sells fine watches and jewellery and keeps departments for antique silver, china and glass.
Best for Fine jewellery, watches and antique silver
Founded in 1895, this Greek gold house is known for museum-inspired ancient-Greek goldwork and haute joaillerie. Its craft draws directly on antiquity.