ORBISThe World Shopping Atlas

Jewelers & Silversmiths — Founded 1900–1945

47 stores · curated ORBIS register

Tortoiseshell is the working material at Bekkou-ya Tagawa, whose Nagasaki range includes brooches and kanzashi hair ornaments. The business dates to 1944, with frames and necklaces also forming part of its craft. Prague's Belda Factory works in gold and silver, making authorial jewellery and bespoke pieces through a house with a 1915 lineage. In New Delhi, Bharany's occupies a Sunder Nagar Market showroom, where Chotte Bharany moved the jewellery business in 1962.

Nagasaki / Japan

Founded in 1944, this third-generation Nagasaki workshop hand-carves bekko (tortoiseshell) into necklaces, brooches, kanzashi pins and eyeglass frames. Pieces are sold at the Imahakata-machi shop and through the studio's online store, where the artisans also take in older tortoiseshell for repair and polishing.

Best for Bekko, tortoiseshell, jewelry, hair ornaments

Bubeneč

A long-running Czech jewelry house and workshop producing authorial gold and silver pieces and bespoke commissions. The current Prague studio receives visitors by appointment; the house dates its jewelry tradition to 1915.

Best for Authorial gold and silver jewelry and bespoke commissions at a Prague studio dating to 1915

Montreux / Switzerland

A jewellery and watch boutique on Montreux's Grand-Rue, serving clients since 1929 as an official retailer for houses including Blancpain, Breitling, Tudor and Messika. Pieces can be bought in the boutique or through its online shop, with interest-free instalment financing offered.

Best for Jewelry, watches, fine-watches

Buccellati

Heritage House

Milan / Online

Mario Buccellati opened his Milan goldsmith house in 1919, developing hand-engraving techniques such as rigato's parallel lines and tulle engraving that turns gold into lace. The house is now led by the fourth generation, Andrea and Lucrezia Buccellati.

Best for Hand-engraved gold and heirloom silver.

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Hand-engraved in its Milan workshopsORBIS register

Padua / Italy

A family goldsmith working under the arcades of Via Umberto I since 1935, Burgo sets diamonds, coral, cameos and pearls in its in-house Padua workshop. Alongside new commissions it handles repairs, gemmological analysis and watch servicing for a clientele that has trusted three generations of the family.

Best for Jeweler, goldsmith, fine jewelry

Vestergade, Odense

C. Antonsen is a goldsmith and jeweler in Odense making gold jewelry, including engagement rings, wedding bands, and diamond pieces, by hand in its own workshop. The business was established in 1910 and is now run by its fourth generation. It is located at Vestergade 36 in Odense.

Best for Handcrafted gold engagement rings and diamond jewelry

Murano, Venice

CAM Vetri d'Arte makes vases, lighting, glassware, jewelry, mirrors and sculptures using the ancient glassblowing technique from a 1900s palazzo at Piazzale Colonna in Murano. Its gallery houses a museum dedicated to glass master Pino Signoretto (1944-2017), and pieces carry a CAM certificate of originality.

Best for Murano blown glass objects and sculpture

Navajo Nation, Cameron

Cameron Trading Post has specialized in Native American crafts since 1916 along the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon's South Rim, selling Navajo rugs in Ganado, Crystal, Burntwater, Two Grey Hills, Teec Nos Pos, pictorial and storm pattern styles. It also carries Hopi pottery and kachinas, silver and turquoise jewelry, and Apache baskets and Plains beadwork.

Best for Navajo rugs and native american crafts

Casa Munoa

Heritage House

Parte Vieja, San Sebastián

San Sebastián jewelry artisan since 1935 in Parte Vieja—three-generation family shop handcrafting gold and silver pieces, pearls, chains, and restoration in-house.

Best for Handcrafted jewelry made in-store by a family since 1935

Colombo 3, Alfred House Gardens

Trading since 1922, Colombo Jewellery Stores is a family jewellery house built around Sri Lankan sapphires and its Sapphire Island collection, alongside fine diamond pieces and Swiss watch brands. Its showroom and head office sit at Alfred House Gardens in Colombo 3, with a second boutique at One Galle Face mall.

Best for Ceylon sapphires and fine jewellery

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Sri LankaORBIS register

King Street

Family-run King Street jeweler founded in 1907 and now led by the fourth generation, specializing in estate jewelry, engagement rings, and engraved sterling gifts. Its Charleston-themed charms and wax-sealed blue boxes are longtime local traditions.

Best for Estate jewelry and engraved silver

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Charleston / SCORBIS register

Damiani

Heritage House

Valenza / Piedmont / Online

Italian high-jewelry maison founded in 1924 by goldsmith Enrico Grassi Damiani in Valenza, Piedmont, a town with a long goldsmithing tradition. Later led by his son Damiano, it grew into a group with boutiques across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.

Best for Diamond classics from Valenza's gold district.

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Made in Valenza / ItalyORBIS register

Edo Kiriko Kobayashi

Heritage House

Tokyo / Japan

Kobayashi Glass has cut Edo Kiriko glassware in Tokyo since founder Kikuichiro Kobayashi apprenticed under a Meiji-era craftsman in 1908, now in its fourth generation with a jewelry line called tokoba. The family workshop sells from its Koto-ward flagship store, which requires an appointment, and through a dedicated online shop.

Best for Edo Kiriko cut glassware and the tokoba jewelry line

Forghieri Gioielleria

Heritage House

Perugia / Italy

Forghieri Gioielleria is a historic jewellery, watch, and silverware shop that has traded in the heart of Perugia since 1926, curating Buccellati and Fabergé pieces alongside vintage and handcrafted objects. The Corso Vannucci store sells in person and through its companion online shop.

Best for Jewelry & silverware, Watches, Fine Jewellery, Silverware

Fratelli Piccini

Heritage House

Ponte Vecchio

A goldsmith's shop on the Ponte Vecchio since 1903, now run by the fourth generation of the Piccini family under Elisa Tozzi Piccini. Its ateliers produce fine and one-of-a-kind jewellery across collections such as Bloom, Intreccio and Dot, alongside a watch business.

Best for Bloom, Intreccio and Dot jewellery collections

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Florence / ItalyORBIS register

840 Franklin Avenue, Garden City

A family jewelry house founded in Brooklyn in 1910 and now anchored on Franklin Avenue, selling engagement and wedding rings, fine jewelry and diamonds. It is an authorized Rolex and Tudor dealer and runs its own watch and jewelry repair workshop.

Best for Engagement rings and Rolex watches

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Garden City / New YorkORBIS register

Rio de Janeiro / Online

Rio’s great jewelry house, founded 1945 — Brazilian colored gemstones worked into sculptural gold at the Ipanema headquarters, worn from Carnaval to the red carpet.

Best for Brazilian gemstones and sculptural gold.

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · BrazilORBIS register

29 Avenue Montaigne, Paris

A New York fine-jewelry house founded in 1932 by Harry Winston, who bought the 45.52-carat Hope Diamond in 1949 and donated it to the Smithsonian in 1958; its Paris salon at 29 Avenue Montaigne has operated since the early 1960s.

Best for The Hope Diamond's donor and Oscar-night jewel lender, on Avenue Montaigne.

Hart Gold & Silversmiths

Heritage House

Old Silk Mill, Sheep Street

The last working workshop of C.R. Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft, Hart has hand-raised silver at Chipping Campden's Old Silk Mill since George Hart took over in 1912. His descendants David, William and Julian Hart still make bespoke pieces from thimbles to full tea services.

Best for Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Chipping Campden / EnglandORBIS register

Hemmerle

Heritage House

Munich / Germany

Hemmerle is a fourth-generation Munich jewellery house on Maximilianstrasse, where it has traded since 1904, creating one-of-a-kind jewels that pair rare stones with unorthodox metals like iron and copper. The boutique welcomes visitors by appointment for its sculptural, made-to-order pieces.

Best for Jewelry, fine jewellery, goldsmithing

Juwelier Schott

Heritage House

Tübingen / Germany

Juwelier Schott has been an independent, family-run jeweler and watchmaker at Lange Gasse 36 in Tübingen since 1909, now run by the third and fourth generations of the family. The shop carries watches from brands like Junghans and Tissot alongside gold, silver and rose-gold jewelry and wedding rings, with battery changes and repairs done in-house.

Best for Jewelry and watchmaking shop

By appointment, Central

K.S. Sze & Sons has designed fine jewelry in Hong Kong since 1923, working jade alongside diamonds, pearls and colored gemstones into bespoke and estate pieces for a by-appointment clientele. The house has collaborated with names like Buccellati and Fabergé while keeping its own century-old workshop for one-off commissions.

Best for Bespoke jade and gemstone jewelry commissions

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Custom jade and fine jewelryORBIS register

Kalevala Koru

Hidden Gem

Central Helsinki

Kalevala Koru was founded in Helsinki in 1937 and first reproduced jewellery based on archaeological finds from Finland's Iron Age and medieval graves. The house casts in bronze, silver and gold, runs its own goldsmithing training and offers a pre-owned and repair service.

Best for Sculptural Finnish jewellery and archaeological reproductions

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · FinlandORBIS register

Graz, Styria, Austria

Founded in 1905 and run by the same family on Murgasse near Graz's main square, this master goldsmith workshop makes rings, pendants and bespoke pieces to order. The bench also handles engraving, resizing, repairs and gold buying.

Best for Bespoke rings and pendants, engraving, and gold buying at a family goldsmith bench since 1905

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Graz / AustriaORBIS register

Ardèche / Online

A reversible-leather jewelry concept launched in 2015, made in the Ardèche's 'Bijou Valley' by Altesse, a Paris jewelry house tracing to 1905, and leather manufacturer Texier; cuffs, earrings and bracelets are held by interchangeable magnetic leather straps.

Best for Customizable cuffs with reversible leather bands, made in Ardèche

New Delhi / India / Online

Established in 1930, Manoharlal Jewellers is a New Delhi house offering hallmarked gold, GIA-certified diamond, polki and silver jewellery along with coins and savings schemes. Its flagship is in South Extension, and pieces are sold across Delhi stores and an online shop.

Best for Jewellery, gold, diamond, polki

Quito

Olga Fisch Folklore, founded in Quito in 1942, is a landmark shop for Ecuadorian craft and design. Its current range spans textiles, clothing, toquilla work, jewelry and table or home objects developed with artisan traditions from across Ecuador.

Best for A landmark Ecuadorian craft and design gallery founded in 1942

Centro Historico, Evora

A family jeweller in Evora since 1914, Ourivesaria Oliveiras works in Portugal's traditional 19.2-karat gold alongside silver pieces and select watch brands. The counter pairs classic wedding bands and religious pendants with contemporary collections.

Best for Traditional Portuguese gold from a century-old jeweller

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · PortugalORBIS register

Charleston

The Philip Simmons Foundation, established in 1991 at 30 1/2 Blake Street in Charleston, preserves the legacy and ironwork craft of master blacksmith Philip Simmons (1912-2009) and maintains a commemorative garden. The gift shop sells jewelry, wall hangings, and prints related to his ironwork.

Best for Philip simmons ironwork legacy and gifts

Historic & Traditional Shops, Naples / Online

Naples jeweler on Via San Biagio dei Librai, inside the Renaissance Palazzo Marigliano; bought as a shop in 1922 by Maria, widowed after her husband Paolo's earlier goldsmith workshop in the Sanità district closed, and still family-run in gold, silver and coral.

Best for Neapolitan coral and gold.

Mamilla, near Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem

Shevach Silversmiths works in Yemenite filigree, a technique the family brought to Jerusalem when its founders emigrated from Yemen in 1929, and continues today under Kitov Shevach and his sons Omri, Assaf, and Shai. The Mamilla workshop hand-makes kiddush cups, menorahs, and mezuzot alongside custom silver commissions.

Best for Yemenite-filigree Judaica and custom silver ritual pieces

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Hand-worked silver filigree / JerusalemORBIS register

Nyali Centre / Links Road, Mombasa

Sonara Budha has served jewelry clients in Kenya since 1906, offering rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, pendants, bangles and anklets set with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and tanzanite among other gemstones. It currently features engagement rings and new arrivals across multiple store locations.

Best for Gemstone jewelry and engagement rings

Tucson

Spirit of Santa Fe is a three-generation family-owned Tucson shop tracing back to Jake Atkinson's Rattle Snake Trading Post, opened in 1945 along Route 66 in New Mexico, offering vintage and traditional Native American jewelry with relationships cultivated with artists for 75 years.

Best for Vintage native american jewelry

Gulzar House, Charminar, Hyderabad

Sri Krishna Pearls has traded from Gulzar House near Charminar since 1906, when the family supplied jewelry to the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad. The shop still deals in baroque, broch, and multi-line pearl sets alongside ruby, emerald, and coral pieces set in silver.

Best for Nizam-era pearl sets and gemstone jewelry

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Hyderabad / IndiaORBIS register

Taxco / Online

Founded in 1937 in Taxco, Talleres de los Ballesteros has grown into a network of silver jewelry stores across Mexico, including Polanco, Monterrey, San Miguel de Allende, Cozumel, and several airport locations, none of them in Taxco itself. The company sells across this branch network and through its own online shop rooted in its Taxco silversmithing heritage.

Best for Taxco silversmithing heritage sold across a Mexico-wide network from Polanco to Cozumel

TANE

Hidden Gem

Polanco, Mexico City / Online

Since 1942 TANE has been Mexico's silver house — sculptural jewelry and objects by great artists' hands, in the metal Mexico mines and masters. Polanco's quiet treasury.

Best for Mexican silver raised to haute orfebrería

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · MexicoORBIS register

Avenida da Liberdade

Spanish jewelry house founded in 1920 in Manresa, near Barcelona, as a watch-repair shop by Salvador Tous Blavi and Teresa Ponsa Mas; the teddy-bear pendant, created in 1985 by Rosa Oriol, became its signature motif.

Best for Playful luxury jewelry. Spanish jewelry brand known for the bear

T. Nagar & Nungambakkam, Chennai

This Chennai jewelling house has worked gold and diamonds since 1900 and crafted the Sengol sceptre installed in India's new Parliament. Its showrooms are known for temple jewellery, uncut-diamond polki and bridal gold in the Tamil idiom.

Best for Heritage gold, diamond and temple jewellery

⚒ Jewelers & Silversmiths · Chennai / IndiaORBIS register

Curated ORBIS register · official links shown where recorded