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.
Antonio Gonzalez Gil opened this marquetry workshop on Calle Animas in 1920 and it won Spain's national woodworking prize in 1943; his grandchildren run it today. They inlay Alhambra-inspired taracea into chess sets, backgammon boards, humidors and jewellery boxes.
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
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
Belda's origins lie not in Prague but in New York. In 1915, twenty-one-year-old Ladislav Belda, from the glass-bead region around Jablonec nad Nisou, emigrated to Manhattan and founded Czechoslovak Beads & Co., producing hand-made glass beads. He returned to Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and established a jewelry and glass-pearl manufacturing base in Turnov that remains the company's production hub today.
The business has passed through four generations of the same family: from Ladislav to his son Jiří Belda Sr., then to grandson Jiří Belda Jr., who has led the bulk of the hands-on design work in recent decades, and now to great-granddaughter Viktorie Beldová. Rather than working in isolation, Belda has repeatedly commissioned outside designers to reinterpret its jewelry, collaborating with architect Eva Jiřičná, designer Maxim Velčovský, artist David Černý, and the Vrtiška & Žák studio on a menswear-oriented collection. For its 2015 centenary, the house released the "Český Ráj" ("Bohemian Paradise") collection, drawing on motifs and stones associated with that region, which earned a Czech Grand Design Award nomination.
Alongside its Turnov manufacturing base, Belda maintains a Prague presence, including a studio in Bubeneč that receives visitors by appointment, continuing a hand-craft tradition now in its second century.
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.
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.
Mario Buccellati opened in Milan in 1919 and D'Annunzio, his most flamboyant client, called him "the Prince of Goldsmiths." The nickname stuck because the work was unmistakable: gold treated as fabric. Buccellati's engravers use techniques the Renaissance would recognize — rigato's parallel lines that make metal shimmer like silk, tulle engraving that turns gold into lace — executed with tools essentially unchanged in a century.
The house is a dynasty in the literal sense. Gianmaria Buccellati carried his father's craft through the twentieth century; today Andrea Buccellati oversees creation with his daughter Lucrezia, the fourth generation. The signatures compound across formats — the Macri bracelets, honeycomb Tulle rings, Ornato silverware that sets embassy tables, and the annual one-of-a-kind cocktail rings that collectors treat as a vintage.
Since 2019 the maison has been part of Richemont, its ateliers still in Italy, still hand-engraving. In an industry of polished surfaces, Buccellati sells texture — the only house whose gold you recognize by touch.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Casa Munoa opened in San Sebastián's Parte Vieja (old town) in 1935 and operates today as a three-generation family jewelry workshop. The current owner, Claudio Munoa, is a master jeweler with over 35 years of experience who designs all pieces created on-site. The business model centers on handcrafted production: customers purchase pieces that Casa Munoa manufactures in its own establishment—'vendemos las piezas que nosotros hemos fabricado en nuestro mismo establecimiento.' Beyond original designs, the shop offers selected pearls, gold chains, vintage jewelry, and full restoration and redesign services for existing pieces. The emphasis on in-house craftsmanship and local Basque production appeals to customers seeking transparency and quality over scale. Located in San Sebastián's historic center, Casa Munoa represents a survival of traditional Spanish jewelry practice in an era when most shops retail imported goods. The three generations of Munoa family stewardship—and Claudio's personal mastery—have sustained consistent standards across eight decades.
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.
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.
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.
Damiani is an Italian high-jewelry maison founded in 1924 by goldsmith Enrico Grassi Damiani in Valenza, a Piedmontese town whose goldsmithing tradition dates back generations. Enrico built a reputation among Italian aristocratic and prominent families for exacting craftsmanship. His son, Damiano, later took over the business, pushing its design language toward newer trends and broadening its reach internationally. Over a century, Damiani expanded from a single artisan workshop into a group with boutiques across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas, while production has stayed rooted in Valenza. Today it remains under the stewardship of later generations of the Damiani family.
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 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
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
The silversmith of the North since 1904 — Art Nouveau hollowware to Ilse Crawford; the Amagertorv flagship gleams like a vault opened for visitors.
Best for Silver hollowware & Nordic jewelry
Georg Jensen, a sculptor turned silversmith, opened his Copenhagen workshop in 1904 and built the case that silver could carry modern art: his Art Nouveau hollowware and jewelry — grapes, blossoms, hammered surfaces — won international acclaim, and the designers he gathered made the smithy a movement. The house's collaborative model produced landmarks across a century: Johan Rohde's Acorn cutlery, Henning Koppel's biomorphic pitchers, Arne Jacobsen's steel, Vivianna Torun's open bangle watch. The Amagertorv flagship on Strøget presents jewelry, watches, hollowware, and home silver in the house's home city, where the silversmithy tradition continues. The silver jewelry — Möbius rings, Torun bangles, Koppel pieces — is the accessible entry; the hollowware is the museum-grade summit. Danish design's entire twentieth century can be read in this one company's catalogue.
The Amagertorv store displays museum pieces beside current stock; ask to compare a vintage-pattern piece with its modern production — the continuity is the house's proof.
Founded by Cavaliere Angelo Bracco in 1934, this Via Mariano Stabile jeweller in Palermo shows diamond solitaires, gold pieces and watches from Vulcain and other houses. Its atelier serves walk-in clients and takes orders through an online catalogue.
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.
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.
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.
Harry Winston founded his jewelry company in New York in 1932, opening a Fifth Avenue salon and shifting from diamond dealing into designing and selling jewelry under his own name. He built a reputation for handling major historic stones, most famously purchasing the 45.52-carat Hope Diamond in 1949; in 1958 he donated the diamond to the Smithsonian Institution, a gift that became the founding centerpiece of the museum's National Gem Collection and remains on public display in Washington, D.C. Winston's Paris presence dates to the early 1960s, when he opened a salon at 29 Avenue Montaigne, in the same stretch of the 8th arrondissement associated with the city's major couture and jewelry houses; Winston himself presented collections there in person during that period. The Avenue Montaigne salon was renovated in 2014 and continues to operate as the house's flagship high-jewelry location in Paris. The company has also loaned jewelry for major public occasions, including Academy Awards ceremonies, and its association with the Hope Diamond remains central to how the house's history is presented publicly today.
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
Hart Gold & Silversmiths is the last operating workshop descended from C.R. Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft, the Arts and Crafts collective Ashbee founded in London's East End in 1888 and relocated to Chipping Campden in 1902 in an attempt to resettle craft production away from the city. The Guild itself dissolved not long after, but the silversmithing workshop survived: George Hart took over its management in 1912 and kept it running inside the Old Silk Mill on Sheep Street, where it remains today. His son Henry joined in 1930, and the business is now run by the third and fourth generations of the family -- David, William and Julian Hart, alongside longtime silversmith Derek Elliott -- continuing more than a century of hand-raising silver on the same Cotswolds site. The workshop makes domestic silverware, jewellery, and ecclesiastical and civic commissions, taking on pieces that range from a single hand-engraved thimble up to a complete tea service, all still shaped and finished by hand rather than cast or machine-formed. It is one of the few Guild of Handicraft workshops anywhere still producing under its original craft, on its original site, run by descendants of the man who took it over just over a decade after Ashbee founded it.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
Les Georgettes' manufacturing lineage goes back to 1905, when craftsman Marius Legros founded a jewelry workshop in the Marais district of Paris; in 1912 the business relocated to Saint-Martin-de-Valamas in the Ardèche valley, a region that developed into a recognized center of French costume and fine jewelry production sometimes called the 'Bijou Valley.' That firm grew into Altesse, a French jewelry manufacturer that today holds the state-recognized 'Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant' (Living Heritage Company) label for craft continuity. In 2015, Altesse partnered with Ardèche-based leather manufacturer Texier — both now under the Renaissance Luxury Group — to launch Les Georgettes, built around a specific mechanical idea: a reversible leather band, secured on a metal jewelry base by two magnetic beads, that lets the wearer swap the leather insert to change the color or texture of a bracelet, cuff, earring or ring without buying a new piece of jewelry. Design work happens in Paris studios, with manufacturing carried out in partner workshops across the Ardèche valley. The brand markets the swappable-strap system as its core differentiator against conventional fixed jewelry, alongside the century-plus manufacturing pedigree behind it.
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.
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
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
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.
Third-generation jeweller Richter has traded on Färbergasse since 1919, favouring bold, design-led rings, necklaces, bracelets and watches. Pieces are sold from the Graz shop and its own online store.
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.
Salvio Gioielleria's history begins with Paolo, who ran a goldsmithing workshop with more than twenty craftsmen in Naples's Sanità district in the early 20th century — an operation that closed amid wartime disruption. After Paolo's death, his widow Maria, left with three children, bought a shop in 1922 at Via San Biagio dei Librai 41, inside the 16th-century Palazzo Marigliano in the heart of Naples's historic center — the same address the business trades from today. The family has run the shop continuously since that purchase, a stretch the business itself marks as 96 years of operation in its own materials, and describes its continuity as passed 'from generation to generation.' The jewelry mixes gold, silver and coral — coral working has its own long tradition along the Bay of Naples — and the shop also runs a workshop doing restoration of antique and religious objects, engraving, and repairs to gold and silver pieces, plus routine services like watch battery changes.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
Founded in 1942, TANE is Mexico's luxury house for handcrafted silver and gold jewelry and objets d'art. Its collections sell online with nationwide delivery and through boutiques across Mexico City.
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
TOUS began in 1920 as a small watch-repair shop in Manresa, near Barcelona, founded by Salvador Tous Blavi and his wife Teresa Ponsa Mas. In 1965 their son, also named Salvador Tous, took over the business with his wife Rosa Oriol; the couple began designing and producing their own jewelry in 1970. In 1985, Rosa Oriol created the teddy-bear pendant that would become the brand's defining symbol. The founders' four daughters joined the business in the 1990s and now hold senior roles, keeping it family-run four generations on.
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