Neustadt
A German jewelry house, with pieces produced in its own ateliers.Established 1743.
Best for In-house-made jewelry from one of Germany's oldest jewelry houses, since 1743
Jewelers & Silversmiths — Founded before 1800
11 stores · curated ORBIS register
Brahmfeld & Gutruf produces jewellery in its own ateliers, continuing a German house whose founding dates to 1743. Birmingham's Deakin & Francis makes cufflinks and signet rings by hand, with a history in the same building since 1786. Its vitreous enamelling uses kiln firing to give colour to novelty and heraldic pieces in the collection. In Naha's Shuri district, Goldsmithing Matayoshi makes ji-fā hairpins and cord ornaments within a Ryukyu-era metalworking tradition.
Visit official site ↗Jardins, São Paulo
Central de Designers is a jewellery shop at Alameda Lorena 1616 in the Jardins area of São Paulo. It shows pieces by 64 independent jewellery designers working in silver, gold and wood.
Best for Jewellery
Visit official site ↗Deakin & Francis
Heritage HouseBirmingham — Jewellery Quarter / London / Online
Working out of the same Birmingham building since 1786, Deakin & Francis calls itself Britain's oldest family jewellers. It is run by the seventh generation of the family and still makes cufflinks and signet rings by hand. Their signature is vitreous enamelling — a slow, kiln-fired craft that gives their novelty and heraldic pieces their depth of color.
Best for Enamelled cufflinks and signet rings
Visit official site ↗Fishtown, Philadelphia
Fishtown Jewelers, a locally owned shop at 1617 Frankford Ave in Philadelphia, has operated for over 18 years offering custom design, repairs, appraisals and stone sourcing. The shop specializes in engagement rings and wedding bands.
Best for Custom engagement rings and jewelry repair
Visit official site ↗Naha
A Naha goldsmith workshop in Shuri practicing kuganizeiku, Okinawa's Ryukyu-era metalwork tradition dating to a 1509 craft mission to China; now run by seventh-generation master Kenjiro Matayoshi, making traditional ji-fā hairpins and cord ornaments.
Best for Traditional Okinawan kanzeiku hair ornaments and jewelry.
Kanzeiku Matayoshi is a goldsmith workshop in the Shuri Ishimine neighborhood of Naha, Okinawa, practicing kuganizeiku (also rendered kanzeiku), the metalworking craft that developed during the Ryukyu Kingdom. According to the workshop's own historical account, the tradition began in 1509, when a craftsman dispatched by the Shuri royal government traveled to China to learn goldsmithing techniques, which were then brought back and adapted for the kingdom's court. During the Ryukyu period, kuganizeiku artisans were commissioned by the royal government to produce nearly all metal ornaments used in court life apart from ironwork, including the ji-fā hairpins that marked social rank, along with cord rings and tassel rings worn as part of traditional dress. The craft nearly disappeared after the destruction of the Second World War, when tools, workshops and trained artisans were lost; it was revived in the postwar decades through Japan's folk-crafts (mingei) movement, with the earlier generation's Matayoshi Seiboku credited as a key figure in that revival. The workshop today is led by Kenjiro Matayoshi, identified as the seventh generation of the family to practice the craft, continuing production of traditional Ryukyu-era metal ornaments using techniques passed down within the family line rather than an industrial process.
Visit official site ↗Old Town, Tallinn
Janika Mägi Couture Embroidery, at Vene 6 in Tallinn's Meistrite Hoov, hand-embroiders occasion wear — belts, capes and jewelry — using historical goldwork, Luneville tambour beading, silkwork, silk shading and appliqué. Mägi trained at Hand & Lock in London, founded in 1767, and has embroidered for Ralph Lauren, Hermès, Dior, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
Best for Hand embroidered occasion wear
Visit official site ↗Graz, Styria, Austria
The Weikhard goldsmith name traces back to 1680 on Graz's Hauptplatz, where the family still runs its own workshops alongside a retail floor of watches by Breitling and Hamilton and jewellery by Pomellato. In-house goldsmiths handle bespoke commissions, resizing and repairs from the same historic corner building.
Best for Heritage watches and fine jewellery
Visit official site ↗Lowe & Sons
Hidden GemBridge Street Row
Lowe & Sons has traded on Chester's Bridge Street Row since 1770, dealing in antique and pre-owned jewellery, silver, and pocket watches alongside restored period pieces. The family firm, now run under Powells, keeps a workshop for repairs, valuations, and the remodelling of older gold and gemstone jewellery.
Best for Antique and pre-owned jewellery
Visit official site ↗Meissen Porcelain
Heritage HouseMeissen / Germany / Online
Europe's first porcelain manufactory, founded in 1710 in Meissen after Johann Friedrich Böttger cracked the formula for hard-paste porcelain, still hand-paints its tableware, figurines, and art objects on-site in Saxony. Its crossed-swords mark, adopted in the 1720s, is among the world's longest continuously used trademark for porcelain.
Best for Hand-painted porcelain tableware and collectible figurines
Visit official site ↗Mellerio
Heritage HouseRue de la Paix / 2nd
Paris high-jewelry house founded 1613 by a family of tinkers from Val Vigezzo, Italy, and passed down 14 generations. Billed as the world's oldest jewelry house and the last independent one in France, it remains headquartered at 9 Rue de la Paix near Place Vendome.
Best for Historic Paris jeweler with high jewelry, precious stones, and old-world craft
Mellerio dates its founding to 1613, tracing its origins to an Italian family from the Val Vigezzo valley in northern Italy who first worked as itinerant tinkers before establishing themselves in the French jewelry trade. The house describes itself as the oldest family-owned jewelry house in the world and the last independently owned one in France, with the business having passed through 14 generations of the same family. It has long been associated with the Place Vendome district of Paris, describing itself as the first jeweler to settle in that area, and today operates from 9 Rue de la Paix in the 2nd arrondissement. The house's offerings span fine and high jewelry organized into collections such as 'Les Muses,' Giardino and Cabinet de Curiosites, alongside engagement and wedding jewelry, jewelry watches, and a line of fragrances and candles.
Visit official site ↗Tonk Road, opposite SMS Hospital, Jaipur
Jaipur jewelry house tracing its founding to 1735, when the city's founder, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, invited the Surana family to practice kundan, meenakari and jadau gem-setting; still trading from Johari Bazaar.
Best for Kundan, enamel, and gemstone jewelry from this Jaipur house established in 1735
Surana Jewellers dates its founding to 1735, when Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II - the founder of Jaipur - invited the Surana family to the newly built city to develop its jewelry trade, specifically kundan, meenakari and jadau techniques. Those crafts are indigenous to Rajasthan and the house has continued them across generations. The business is located in Johari Bazaar, Jaipur's historic jewelry marketplace, and has passed down through the Surana family, with twentieth-century figures such as Prakash Chand Surana credited with reviving and popularizing the kundan-meenakari tradition further.
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