146 stores · curated ORBIS register
Central Helsinki
Aarikka has turned Finnish birch into jewellery, homeware and decorations since Kaija Aarikka began making wooden buttons in 1954. Its Helsinki store sells beaded necklaces, candlesticks and the round-bodied wooden figures that became the brand's signature.
Best for Wooden beaded jewellery and homeware
Paris / Online
French costume-jewelry brand founded in Paris in 1974 by Michel Quiniou, positioned between haute couture jewelry and mass-market pieces. Its Scottie-dog motif, introduced in 1989, became a signature; the brand now has over 400 retail points worldwide.
Best for Accessible French jewelry, charms, and earrings
Agatha Paris was founded in 1974 by Michel Quiniou, who set out to occupy a specific middle position in the French jewelry market — pieces more considered and design-led than anonymous mass-market costume jewelry, but priced well below haute couture jewelry houses. Quiniou is reported to have named the brand after agate, the semi-precious stone, while looking for a feminine-sounding name for the label. The brand grew from its original Paris design store into an international fashion-jewelry company, eventually reaching more than 400 retail outlets worldwide, spanning earrings, bracelets, pendants, charms and other accessible jewelry and gift pieces. Its best-known design element, a Scottie dog silhouette, was introduced in 1989 as a pendant, inspired by the founder's own pet dog, and became a recurring motif across the brand's collections and packaging in the decades since. Agatha has continued operating as a jewelry brand aimed at a broad customer base rather than a niche luxury clientele, built on frequent, accessibly priced collections rather than infrequent high-value pieces. Ownership passed in 2021 to the Renaissance Luxury Group, which has continued running the brand under its existing identity and Scottie-dog branding, marking 50 years of the label's history as of 2024.
Alameda Dr. Alfredo Pimenta (Centro)
Founded in 1986 and now in its second generation, this jeweller on Alameda Dr. Alfredo Pimenta deals in gold and silver pieces, both traditional and contemporary and both new and pre-owned. It also trades secondhand watches from houses such as Rolex, Omega and Cartier.
Best for Gold and silver jewellery
Prempeh II Street Adum
Agyaba Jewellery has worked in the gold business since 1975 from its store on Prempeh II Street in Adum, Kumasi. Pieces are set in 18k yellow and white gold.
Best for Gold rings and earrings since 1975
Alfardan Centre, Ali Bin Abdullah Street, Doha, Qatar / Doha / Qatar
Established 1954 by Ibrahim Alfardan; official contact names Alfardan Center as the main branch.
Best for Jewellery from a house established in 1954, at its main Alfardan Center branch.
Warsaw / Poland
Amber Art Silverline Gallery has traded on the Old Town Market Square in Warsaw since 1988. The gallery holds a certificate from the International Amber Association, which it says no other Warsaw gallery carries. Amber and crystal pieces range upward from small jewellery, with prices opening at twenty zloty. Crown heads and presidents are among the visitors the gallery records.
Best for Certified amber and crystal on Warsaw's Old Town Market Square.
Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo
Amber World Museum is a museum and jewellery shop at Calle Arzobispo Meriño 452 in Santo Domingo. It exhibits amber and larimar specimens and has made and sold jewellery in both stones since 1985.
Best for Amber/larimar
Ponte Vecchio & Jewelry, Florence / Online
Florence's resin-jewel colorist since 1975 — bold costume jewelry loved by costume designers.
Best for Statement resin jewels.
Port Louis / Mauritius
Shiv Jewels has run a duty-free jewelry shop in Port Louis since 1989, moving from the R. Seeneevassen Building to the Caudan Waterfront in 1996 and later adding a second store at Tribeca Mall in Ébène; the family business is now run by its second generation. Gold and silver jewelry, plus watch brands like Michel Herbelin and Pequignet, can be bought in-store or through the Anké by Shiv Jewels online shop.
Best for Jewelry, Watches, Luxury Goods
Toronto
Anvil Jewellery was founded in Toronto in 1965 by Henry and Vickie Kasekamp, who came to Canada after World War II. Over 90% of its inventory is locally made, with jewellery cast in-house from recycled gold and gemstones sourced from suppliers that adhere to non-conflict standards.
Best for Locally made fine jewellery
Baytown, Texas
Organized in 1954 and housed since 2008 in the old Woolworth on West Texas Avenue, the Art League sells local members' work in many media from the gallery and runs classes and a summer camp. Visit Baytown notes the building carries the city’s largest mural, a trompe-l’oeil wrapping the front and west wall.
Best for Locally made art, ceramics, jewelry and small gifts
Taxco / Online
Arte Taxco has sold handmade .925 and .950 silver rings from Taxco's silversmiths since 1984, working directly with local artisans and certifying each ring's silver content and origin with a traceable digital certificate. The shop's "Joya de por Vida" program lets customers resell rings back to the company for up to 70% of the purchase price, sold entirely through its online store.
Best for Silver ring maker
Cairo / Online
Egypt's fine jewellery house of provenance — in 1969 Azza Fahmy became the first woman apprenticed to the master goldsmiths of Khan el-Khalili; today her Cairo ateliers hand-pierce Arabic calligraphy into gold, twice commissioned by the British Museum.
Best for Calligraphy jewellery carrying Rumi and Umm Kulthum in gold.
Jaffa Road
A family jewelry and Judaica shop founded in Jerusalem. Current specialty-shopping listing explicitly names the shop. Established 1949.
Best for Family-run jewelry and Judaica since 1949 in Jerusalem
Ketchum, Idaho (Sun Valley)
Barry Peterson started this business in 1971 out of Giacobbi Square, moved to the Mall at Elkhorn, then returned to Ketchum in 1984 before settling into the current 3,600-square-foot flagship in 1991. In 1972 he designed the Sun Valley Sun line at the resort owner's request, a piece the shop still produces, including an all-diamond version made for the resort's 50th anniversary.
Best for Custom fine jewellery and the Sun Valley Sun collection
Barry Peterson began crafting original jewelry in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1971 from a shop in Giacobbi Square. The Sun Valley resort community around it was developed in 1936 by Union Pacific chairman W. Averell Harriman. Five years later he moved the business to the Mall at Elkhorn, and in 1984 he returned to Ketchum and widened the collection to diamonds and precious stones, plus designer lines. He designed the present 3,600 square foot store himself. It opened on Sun Valley Road in 1991, where it still stands at number 511. In 1972 Bill Janss, the former Olympic skier who owned Sun Valley from 1964 to 1977, asked Peterson to design an original piece for the Sun Valley Company. The Sun Valley Sun that resulted is the shop's signature line, and for the resort's fiftieth anniversary Peterson made an all-diamond version set with fifty stones. Snowflake and Idaho collections followed. The shop carries brands including FOPE and William Henry, and Tane Mexico 1942. It designs custom pieces with a client's own stones or its own, and runs a jewelry repair workshop covering gemstone cutting and restoration. Peterson still travels for gems and minerals, from Brazil to watchmaking in Geneva.
Modena / Italy
A Modena goldsmith working since 1974, designing bespoke rings from 3-D renderings with GIA- and IGI-certified diamonds. Clients visit the shop on Via Castellaro to choose settings and stones, with free resizing and lifetime cleaning.
Best for Jewelry, Goldsmith, Custom Jewelry
San Ángel, Mexico City
Bazar Sábado has operated as a marketplace for Mexican folk art and contemporary craftsmanship since 1960, moving to its current site at Plaza San Jacinto #11 in San Ángel in 1965. It brings together goldsmiths, jewelers, ceramicists and textile artists under one roof.
Best for Folk art and craftsmanship market
Quebec City / Canada
A family jewelry business since 1953, Bijouterie Langlois designs and manufactures diamond wedding rings and custom pieces on site at its Quebec City workshop, offering conflict-free diamonds with GIA certification. Customers can shop the collection in person or through the brand's online boutique with free shipping over $125.
Best for Diamond & Fine Jewelry
Ponsonby, Auckland
Bijoux is a jeweller at 208 Ponsonby Rd, Auckland, operating since 1988, offering custom design, repairs and alterations in sterling silver and gold. Their pieces include engagement rings, wedding bands, necklaces, bracelets and earrings set with freshwater pearls, diamonds and sapphires.
Best for Custom jewellery design and repairs
Pisa / Italy
Bottega Etrusca has sold handcrafted jewelry from its shop on Pisa's Borgo Stretto since 1974, specializing in pearl, coral, and cameo pieces alongside a custom wedding registry service. The jeweler keeps regular shop hours Tuesday through Saturday and also sells its collections through an online store with free in-store pickup.
Best for Jewelry, Handmade, Gifts
Durban
Brettland Poulsen is a Durban goldsmith formed when Brettlands, established in 1986, merged in 2017 with the long-running Poulsen jewellery house started decades earlier by Otto Poulsen. The workshop makes handmade custom pieces and heirloom commissions to order.
Best for Handmade custom jewelry and heirloom commissions from a merged Durban goldsmith house
Onancock / United States
A family-run Onancock jeweler established in 1953, this Market Street shop is known for its handcrafted sterling and gold Chesapeake Bay Bracelets alongside a curated selection of jewelry and gifts. The Market Street shop keeps regular Tuesday-through-Saturday hours and prices its gold pieces by the day's metal market.
Best for Jeweler, fine jewelry, Chesapeake Bay bracelets, gifts
Walled City / Online
Cano Jewelry is a Cartagena house for pre-Colombian inspired jewellery — ornate gold chokers, Amazonian hoop earrings. Founded in 1970; Made in Colombia.
Best for Pre-Colombian inspired jewellery — ornate gold chokers, Amazonian hoop earrings
La Candelaria, Bogotá
Family-run Bogotá jeweller established in 1974, making pieces at Calle 12 #5-83 in La Candelaria with Colombian emeralds, diamonds, gold and silver. Its work includes engagement rings, wedding bands and bespoke designs.
Best for Jewellery
Main Street (also Vineyard Haven)
Founded by Cheryl Stark, who arrived on the island in 1966 after training in silversmithing at Boston's Museum School, this jeweler designs and makes pieces on Martha's Vineyard. It runs shops in both Edgartown and Vineyard Haven, showing its own work alongside a roster of other makers.
Best for Island-made jewelry
Capri / Online
Founded in Capri in 1947 by Pietro Capuano and Salvatore Aprea, Chantecler built its name on the enamelled bell charm inspired by the island's church bells. The maison still designs coral, turquoise and diamond pieces around Capri motifs in limited goldsmith runs.
Best for Campanella lucky bells.
Victorian Market, Inverness, Scotland
Colin Campbell founded this goldsmith's workshop in 1975 after completing his apprenticeship in Glasgow, and has run it from Inverness's Victorian Market since 2000. His son Paul, also apprenticeship-trained, now works alongside him on bespoke commissions and a workshop that handles around 100 repairs a week.
Best for Bespoke gold and silver jewellery, repairs
Los angeles / United States
Craft Contemporary Shop sits inside the museum at 5814 Wilshire Boulevard, selecting jewelry, ceramics, books, stationery and artist-made objects that connect with the institution’s craft-focused exhibitions. The museum, founded in 1973, is a nonprofit devoted to contemporary art made through craft media and processes, and shop purchases support its exhibitions and programming.
Best for Museum-shop, jewelry, books, home-goods
Chinatown, Dampier Terrace
Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm has grown Australian South Sea pearls off the Kimberley coast since 1946. Its Broome showroom on Dampier Terrace sells jewellery set with pearls carrying certified farm origin.
Best for Australian South Sea pearls
Vicenza / Italy
Daniela Vettori has hand-forged artistic gold and silver jewellery from her Piazza dei Signori workshop in Vicenza since 1981, later joined by daughter Margherita Galla's symbolic Magal line. The bottega sells finished pieces online and welcomes visitors to watch pendants and rings take shape at the bench.
Best for Bottega sells finished pieces online and welcomes visitors to watch pendants
Lighthouse Street, Galle Fort
Founded in 1971, this family-run boutique on Lighthouse Street cuts and sets Ceylon sapphires, rubies, emeralds and diamonds into handcrafted gold and silver jewellery. It takes custom commissions rooted in Sri Lankan design.
Best for Ceylon sapphires and custom jewellery
Paris / Online
Paris jewelry house founded in 1965 by Jean Dinh Van, a former decade-long Cartier designer, after his 'Deux Perles' ring for Pierre Cardin established his geometric style. Known for the Menottes handcuff-clasp collection; boutique on rue Bonaparte since 2000.
Best for The Menottes handcuff-clasp jewelry, 1960s Parisian modernism in gold
Jean Dinh Van, born in 1927 in Boulogne-sur-Mer to a French mother and a Vietnamese father who worked as a lacquer artisan, trained at the École des Arts Décoratifs before joining Cartier, where he spent roughly a decade working under Jeanne Toussaint on pieces for an elite clientele, including the Duchess of Windsor. In 1965 he left to found his own maison, opening a workshop on Place Gaillon in Paris. His breakthrough piece was the 'Deux Perles' ring, designed that same year for Pierre Cardin — a square-form ring set with two pearls that established the geometric, structural design language he continued to develop. In 1967 dinh van was selected as one of four French jewelry houses to exhibit at Montreal's Expo 67, a showing that led to a distribution arrangement with Cartier's New York branch, the house where he had trained. The maison's best-known line, Menottes, takes its name from the French word for handcuffs: rather than concealing the clasp of a bracelet or necklace, Dinh Van made two interlocking rings joined by a chain into the visible centerpiece of the piece. His broader approach was to make jewelry meant for daily wear rather than only formal occasions, a departure from more ceremonial luxury jewelry conventions of the period. The house opened a boutique on rue Bonaparte on Paris's Left Bank in 2000.
Meg Ve / France
Part of a family jewellery house founded in Avignon in 1965, the Megeve boutique on rue Charles Feige carries Rolex, Cartier, Messika and other watch and jewellery marques. Buyers can shop in the alpine store or through the online boutique, with financing and after-sales service.
Best for Jewellery, watches, boutique
Mazatl N / Mexico
Run by the Rubio family in Mazatlán since 1984, El Delfín crafts and sells fine jewelry in gold, sterling silver and gemstones, including Mexican fire opals. The GIA-trained jewelers are, by their account, the city's only accredited jewelry appraisers.
Best for Fine jewelry in gold, sterling silver and gemstones, including Mexican fire opals
Prizren / Kosovo
Filigrani continues Prizren's centuries-old filigree tradition, hand-wringing gold, silver, and amber into rings, earrings, and ornamental pieces at its workshop on Remzi Ademaj street. The workshop traces its roots to a 1947 craftsmen's cooperative and today operates with EU and UNDP support to keep the craft alive.
Best for Filigree, Jewelry, Metalwork
Downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia
This Barrington Street shop and gallery, open since 1977, sells fine and custom jewellery from Canadian and international designers and keeps resident goldsmiths on staff. It also handles bridal commissions, repairs and estate pieces.
Best for Fine and custom jewellery
Athens, Greece
Athens-founded jewelry, watch and accessories brand established in 1982; after a major 2018 accounting-fraud scandal and its founders' 2020 conviction, the label continues trading in Greece through a restructured entity, FF OPSCO.
Best for Fashion jewellery
Folli Follie was established in Athens in 1982, starting as a jewelry manufacturer before launching a watch line in 1994 and opening its first overseas store in Japan in 1995. The company grew into an international accessories retailer before a hedge fund's 2018 investigation found that Folli Follie had overstated its store count and misrepresented its finances; Greek prosecutors found that chairman Dimitris Koutsolioutsos and his son and then-CEO George Koutsolioutsos had forged bank statements between 2009 and early 2018. Greek courts convicted the pair, handing down sentences of 10 to 17 years in 2020, with investigators estimating total losses to investors and creditors at roughly 413 million euros. The Folli Follie brand itself continued trading afterward: its current retail site identifies the operating company as 'FF OPSCO' and lists four active Athens stores alongside an online shop.
Nantucket
Four Winds Craft Guild, established in 1948 at 15 Main Street on Nantucket, specializes in Nantucket lightship baskets including open baskets, basket purses and miniatures, along with basket repairs and appraisals. The guild also carries carvings, scrimshaw, shell art and jewelry from featured artisans.
Best for Nantucket lightship baskets and repairs
Nantucket / United States
This Nantucket gift shop, family-run since 1970 from the historic Blacksmith building on Straight Wharf, carries coastal clothing, hydrangea-themed decor, jewelry and island souvenirs. Its direct online store extends the same island goods to shoppers year-round for direct online orders direct online ordering and shipping.
Best for Gift shop, coastal apparel, home decor, souvenirs
Ocean Avenue
Fourtane has dealt in estate jewelry and vintage timepieces since 1950 and is an authorized Rolex retailer, with inventory spanning from the 1800s to the present. Now run by the Bonifas family, its cases hold antique diamonds, collectible watches, and custom-designed pieces.
Best for Estate jewelry and vintage watches
Ta Qali Artisan Village, Attard
Francis Jewellery sells traditional silver filigree jewellery in Ta' Qali Artisan Village, Attard. Francis Mansueto founded the business in 1974, and visitors can watch the filigree work produced in the shop.
Best for Traditional silver filigree jewellery made in the workshop
Ponte Vecchio & Jewelry, Florence / Online
Florence jewelry shop on Via Lambertesca, between the Ponte Vecchio and the Uffizi, operating since 1979; hand-crafts two lines - sea-themed 'Storie di Mare' pieces and Murano-glass 'Disegni di Luce.'
Best for Storie di Mare jewelry and Murano-glass Disegni di Luce in Florence
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte commercial arcade opened in 1964 and described by its own site as a city within the city, with current shops for jewellery, crafts, clothing, décor and fabrics, plus the traditional pastel stop during shopping.
Best for Jewellery
Myrtle Beach / United States
The Gay Dolphin Gift Cove has anchored the Myrtle Beach oceanfront since 1946. Its sprawling floors hold seashells, apparel, jewellery and collectibles alongside photo-op props from a life-size Yeti to Egyptian guardians.
Best for Gifts, souvenirs, seashells, coastal
Padua
Founded in Padua in 1950, Ghiraldin Gioielli makes jewellery by hand and sells gold, gemstones, watches, and silverware from its shop on Via Eremitani. Pieces can be bought in store or shipped across Italy through its online shop.
Best for Jewelry, watches, silverware, diamonds
South of France / Paris / Online
South of France jewelry since 1976 — 18-karat gold and resin-bead necklaces and bracelets handcrafted in Saint-Tropez, each bead hand-dipped in melted resin for playful color.
Best for Resin-bead rosary bracelets in jeweled color on gold, a Saint-Tropez wrist staple.
Gigi Clozeau jewelry was created in 1976 in the South of France as a celebration of the birth of Alain Clozeau's first daughter, Gigi. The narrative unfolds with the creation of a one-of-a-kind bracelet by her father, a master jeweler with fifty years of expertise. The jewelry is handmade in the South of France, specifically in Saint-Tropez, by a mother and daughter duo. Gigi Clozeau approaches jewelry through color, rhythm, and simplicity, drawing from a visual world shaped by the South of France, fashion, street art, and natural landscape. From her father's intricately crafted pieces to her mother's avant-garde influence, Gigi inherits a legacy of artistry and creativity. The designs are inspired by landscapes dear to Gigi, from the Camargue to sun-filled horizons. The brand's signature resin beads are hand-dipped in melted resin to create the beaded effect, with each bead adding a splash of color embodying the playful yet sophisticated spirit of the brand. Gigi Clozeau uses only 18-karat gold in her designs, ensuring luminous shine, durability, and longevity.
Forio
Gioielleria Bottiglieri has worked as goldsmiths and jewelers on Ischia since 1962, with the current owners representing the third generation of a family trained in the goldsmithing workshops of Torre del Greco. The Forio shop sells rings, bracelets, and watches alongside made-to-order pieces in gold and silver.
Best for Gold jewelry and watches since 1962
Sydney / Australia
Giulians has designed fine jewelry from Australian opals, South Sea pearls and diamonds since 1966, now working from an atelier and shop inside the Four Seasons Hotel on George Street in Sydney. Founded by Ivan and Vivienne Vortouni, the business is now led by master jeweller Gary Coffey and sells both ready-made and bespoke pieces worldwide.
Best for Fine opal and gemstone jeweller
cruise terminal, Oranjestad
Gold Palace Jewelers is an Aruba jewellery shop at L.G. Smith Boulevard 15 near the cruise terminal. The family arrived from India in 1989, opened on Main Street on 1 July 1992, and since 2004 has specialised in fine jewellery and loose diamonds at the boulevard address.
Best for Jewellery
Äußere Neustadt
A third-generation goldsmith and jeweller on Königsbrücker Strasse in Dresden's Neustadt, working there since 1987. Wedding and engagement rings, earrings and pendants are made by hand in the on-site workshop, which also handles repairs and restorations.
Best for Handmade rings and custom jewellery
Würzburg
Goldschmiede Süssenguth has handcrafted gold jewelry, wedding rings and custom pieces from its Würzburg workshop since the family founded it in 1948. The fourth-generation goldsmiths also buy old gold and offer engraving services alongside their in-store and online shop.
Best for Handcrafted gold jewelry and wedding rings from a fourth-generation Würzburg workshop
Graz, Styria, Austria
Set inside the Renaissance-era Zanderhof on Sackstraße, Goldzander was founded in 1983 by Erika Zander and stocks charm jewellery, antique silver and pieces by Victor Mayer and bellaluce. The workshop also creates bespoke jewellery and carries out repairs.
Best for Charm jewellery and antique silver
Bowbazar, Kolkata
H.K. Dutta Jewellers began as a modest shop in Kolkata in 1950 and has since expanded to multiple showrooms across the city, including Garia and Bowbazar. It sells 22k and 18k gold jewellery such as necklaces, bangles, rings, earrings, mangalsutras and gold coins.
Best for 22k and 18k gold jewellery
Greater Kailash-1 / DLF Emporio
Led by managing director and chief designer Sandeep Narang, this arm of the Hazoorilal jewellery family traces its craft to the founder's 1952 Dariba Kalan counter. Its M-Block Greater Kailash flagship, open since 1989, cuts diamond, kundan and polki sets, with further stores at DLF Emporio and the ITC Maurya arcade.
Best for Diamond, kundan and polki sets
South Extension, New Delhi
Hazoorilal Narang opened his first counter in Chandni Chowk's Dariba in 1952, and the third generation now designs diamond, polki and gold pieces under the Legacy name. GIA-trained family members run the Greater Kailash and South Extension showrooms and take commissions.
Best for Diamond, polki, and gold pieces designed by the third generation
Paris / Online
French jewelry chain launched in 1986 by Éric Belmonte, who conceived an accessibly priced, open-format jewelry store after struggling to find an affordable gift for his mother in Cannes; now operates 400+ stores across France and Belgium.
Best for Watches, gold, diamonds, and accessible everyday jewelry gifts
Histoire d'Or was founded in 1986 by Éric Belmonte, who at the time worked as a courier for luxury jewelers on the French Riviera. Searching Cannes for an affordable birthday gift for his mother, he found every jewelry shop he visited catered to a wealthy clientele and left him without an option he could afford. That experience led him to build a different kind of jewelry retailer: an open-format store, without the guarded counters typical of the trade, using a red-based identity and straightforward merchandising to make jewelry buying feel approachable rather than exclusive. The brand expanded through France before opening its first store outside the country, in Belgium, in 2007. In 2013 it launched an in-house training program, THOM Academy, alongside its e-commerce site, and in 2018 it added a lab-grown diamond line and established a corporate social responsibility department. Histoire d'Or is part of the Thom Group (Thom Europe), a French jewelry retail group operating several chains. Today Histoire d'Or runs more than 400 stores across France and Belgium, positioned as a mass-market rather than luxury jeweler, selling gold, diamonds, watches and gift-priced accessories.
Ta Qali Artisan Village, Attard
House of Gems is a jewelry workshop in Ta Qali Crafts Village, Attard, founded in 1980. It shapes natural gemstones and precious metals by hand into rings, necklaces and earrings, and also sells raw minerals and Maltese souvenirs.
Best for Handmade gemstone jewelry and Maltese souvenirs
Nottingham
Trading in Nottingham's Hockley since 1979, Ice Nine is an alternative shop selling silver and body jewellery, alternative clothing, giftware and vinyl. It welcomes shoppers in store and lists its stock online across departments like Silver Jewellery and Ice Vinyl.
Best for Silver jewellery, alternative clothing, giftware, vinyl, body jewellery
Antigua Guatemala / Online
Jade Maya has mined, cut and polished jadeite in Guatemala since 1974, with Guatemalan craftspeople carrying forward the carving traditions the company set out to revive. Museum replicas, one-of-a-kind pieces and Maya day-sign jewellery create a direct place-to-product connection rooted in local stone and craft.
Best for Guatemalan jadeite, Maya replicas and day-sign jewelry
Jade Maya was founded in 1974 by archaeologist Mary Lou Ridinger and her husband Jay Ridinger, who came to Guatemala to solve an archaeological problem. They wanted to know what had become of the jade sources used by the Maya and six other ancient civilizations over three thousand years. That year they rediscovered the deposits along the tectonic plate boundary that runs east to west through central Guatemala. Samples sent to the Gemological Institute of America confirmed jadeite, which is the harder and rarer of the two jades. Instead of exporting rough stone, the Ridingers chose to restart a carving industry that had been lost at the Spanish Conquest. They built a factory in September 1974 and trained descendants of the Maya to carve replicas of ancient treasures. The company now describes some 63,000 square feet of factory and showroom space with a museum. Over 300 Guatemalans earn a living from mining and carving jade, and from selling it. Everything is cut and polished in-house, from museum-quality replicas to jewellery in lavender jade and Olmec blue jade. Finished pieces go straight to the showroom at 4a Calle Oriente No. 34 in Antigua Guatemala, one of eight shops in the country. In March 1999 President Bill Clinton spent two hours in the factory and showroom, and a percentage of web sales supports scholarships through the Maya Conservancy.
Nelson / New Zealand / Online
Based in the same Nelson location since 1960, Jens Hansen is a jeweller of handmade rings and fine jewellery, known worldwide as the maker of The One Ring from the Lord of the Rings films. Its custom and collection pieces are sold at the Nelson flagship and through an online store.
Best for Jewellery, handmade rings, goldsmith
Manila / Online
Jewelmer is the fine-jewelry Maison behind the golden South Sea pearl, cultured on its own Palawan farms since 1979 and set into bracelets, earrings, necklaces and rings. Its online boutique lists collections for direct online ordering alongside a store locator and appointment booking for those seeking pieces in person.
Best for South Sea pearls, fine jewelry, pearl cultivation
Mambal, near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Founded in Bali in 1975, this jewellery house handcrafts sterling silver and gold pieces at its artisan workshop near Ubud. Its Kapal Bamboo Boutique anchors the property as a showcase of Balinese craftsmanship.
Best for Handcrafted Balinese silver and gold jewellery
Pontevedra / Spain
Joyamar has sold gold, silver and watches from its shop at Rúa Benito Corbal 34 in central Pontevedra since the Alba Ezpeleta family opened it there in 1992, continuing a jewelry trade the family began in Venezuela in 1975. Now run by the second generation, the shop pairs its storefront with an online collection of watches from brands like Casio, Nixon and TOUS.
Best for Gold, silver, and watches from brands like Casio, Nixon, and TOUS
Palma De Mallorca / Spain
A Palma reference in fine jewellery since 1973, Abolengo gathers diamonds, sapphires, emeralds and aquamarines in 18-carat gold on Carrer Sindicat. The shop also curates a selection of antique and vintage jewellery chosen with a practised eye.
Best for Fine jewelry, diamonds, antique jewellery
Amara
A family workshop and shop producing one-off handmade jewelry without serial molds. Established 1969.
Best for One-off handmade jewelry made without serial molds since 1969
Caracas
A jewelry house founded in Caracas in 1960, designing and selling gold and gem pieces, with a second presence in the Dominican Republic. The family firm works to order and presents its collections on its own site.
Best for Fine gold and gem jewelry
Ourense
Trading in Ourense since 1971, Joyeria Vila sells watches and jewelry in gold, silver, and steel across brands like Citizen and Bulova plus its own pieces. Its Rua Santo Domingo shop is paired with a full online store offering 24-to-48-hour shipping.
Best for Jewelry, watches, gold, silver
Kautokeino
Frank and Regine Juhls founded Finnmark's first silversmith workshop in Kautokeino in 1959, hand-crafting silver jewelry inspired by Sami and Bunad traditions, including the Sølje brooch and Komsekule amulet. The gallery now also has a second location at Bryggen in Bergen.
Best for Handcrafted Sami-inspired silver jewellery
Aberdeen
Family-run since 1971, Juniper is an Aberdeen independent selling jewellery, gifts and homeware. It trades from the city and through its own online shop.
Best for Jewellery, gifts and homeware
Münster / Germany
Juwelier Hockelmann is a family-run jeweller in the heart of Munster since 1950, dealing in wedding rings, fine jewellery and brand-name watches. Its in-house goldsmith reworks heirlooms and makes repairs, and it sells exclusive Munster-themed watches and pendants.
Best for Wedding rings, fine jewelry, brand-name watches, heirloom repairs
Kitzbühel, Tyrol, Austria
Josef and Karin Schroll opened this Vorderstadt goldsmith workshop in 1969, and their son Christopher now runs it with his wife Yvonne, still cutting bespoke engagement rings and wedding bands on site. The shop is also an authorized Rolex service workshop and carries its own Kitz Spirit line of Alpine-themed jewellery alongside watches from Tudor, Chopard, and Longines.
Best for Bespoke jewellery and luxury watch service
Broome
Kailis's Broome boutique centres on Australian South Sea pearl jewellery, with diamonds appearing alongside pearls in the collection. The family's first pearl jewellery shop opened in Broome in 1978, following its involvement in the region's pearl farming. Visiting the boutique allows customers to compare jewellery in person, including the differences in lustre and shape between individual pearls.
Best for Australian South Sea pearl jewellery in Broome
Kailis builds its jewellery identity around Australian South Sea pearls and a family history linked to the sea. The Kailis family traces its seafaring tradition to the 1900s, when family members worked as merchant seamen from the Greek island of Kastellorizo. That history gives the pearl business a specific lineage without reducing the current jewellery to nostalgia. The company describes each Australian South Sea pearl as naturally individual, then designs around differences in surface and shape as well as radiance. Its collections provide distinct frameworks for that material. Everlasting draws on the native Western Australian everlasting flower, while Fleur and Melody sit beside Classics and Strands & Studs as named lines. The range moves from earrings and pendants to necklaces and bracelets as well as rings, with accessories forming a separate group. Kailis also publishes material about pearl care and design, reinforcing that the pearl is the starting point rather than a decorative afterthought. The merchant's defining combination is clear: a seafaring family story, a geographically named pearl type, and jewellery collections that translate natural variation into repeatable design languages.
Coimbatore
Karpagam Jewellers has crafted gold, silver, diamond, and platinum ornaments in Coimbatore since 1971, from bridal necklaces to antique temple-style pieces. The family jeweller works both traditional South Indian and contemporary designs across bangles, chains, and rings.
Best for Gold and bridal jewellery
Karen / Mbagathi Ridge / Online
Kazuri makes ceramic bead jewellery in Nairobi, using clay sourced from the foothills of Mount Kenya. Founded by Lady Susan Wood in 1975, the business began as a small workshop providing employment for women nearby. Its artisans shape the beads by hand before painting and firing them for use in jewellery sold through the brand's collections.
Best for Handcrafted Kenyan ceramic bead jewellery
Kazuri makes handcrafted jewellery from African clay in Nairobi, and has been doing so for five decades. Each bead is formed and finished by hand, which is why no two pieces carry quite the same colour or weight. The workshop treats that variation as the point rather than as a tolerance to be engineered out.
The Heritage Collection is where the house looks back at itself. It draws on the patterns and colours it describes as its own DNA, taken from the original styles it launched with and remade with the same intent.
Newer work runs alongside it. The Mara Moon Collection pairs traditional African clay jewellery with a modern bohemian turn, setting earthy pastel tones against brighter colour, and a separate collaboration with Yakaa Studio runs to three collections of its own.
The part worth planning around is the Kazuri Bead Bar, a creative space open to visitors in Nairobi. A guided tour comes with a jewellery-making workshop, and all tools and materials are provided, so you leave with something you shaped rather than something you picked off a tray.
Nairobi / Karen (Karen Blixen estate)
Ceramic jewelry made since 1975, when Lady Susan Wood started Kazuri with two women in her Karen Blixen estate garden shed. Today hundreds of Kenyan women, many single mothers, shape Mount Kenya clay into fair-trade beads.
Best for Ceramic jewelry made since 1975
Lady Susan Wood was born in 1918 in a mud hut in the Ituri Forest, where her English missionary parents were stationed; she and her husband settled in Kenya in 1947 and eventually ran a coffee plantation on the old Karen Blixen estate outside Nairobi — the farm made famous by "Out of Africa." In 1975, alongside two disadvantaged women, she began rolling and painting ceramic beads in a garden shed on the estate, meant as a small income project rather than a business plan.
It grew because the need was larger than two jobs: Kazuri became a dedicated employer of women, especially single mothers with no other income source, and now employs hundreds who shape clay carried down from Mount Kenya into beads, painted and fired by hand. The company is a member of the World Fair Trade Federation, which audits its wages and working conditions, and visitors can walk through the workshop and watch the process from raw clay to finished strand — the same conversion Wood started, at a much smaller scale, half a century ago.
Averof Street, Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
Koutis-Chatzis has sold jewellery, watches and religious items from the same shop on Averof Street in central Ioannina since Vasileios Koutis opened it in 1962, two years after he began selling jewellery door-to-door. His grandson Vasileios Chatzis took over in 2012 alongside his mother, keeping the shop's original wooden fittings and its membership in the Ioannina Association of Silversmiths and Goldsmiths.
Best for Gold and silver jewellery, watches, religious items
Hyderabad
Hyderabad jeweller trading since 1983, working with freshwater, Tahitian and South Sea pearls alongside cubic zirconia and sterling silver. BIS and GIA certified, with more than 14,000 designs and stores including one near Kondapur.
Best for Pearl jewellery since 1983
Cnr Tobias Hainyeko & Theo-Ben Gurirab Ave, Swakopmund
Kristall Galerie, established in Swakopmund in 1998, sells cut gemstones and crystal specimens through three jewelry boutiques and a souvenir shop, and displays the largest known quartz crystal cluster on public display in the world, a 3m by 3m, 14,100kg specimen found in Namibia's Erongo region in August 1985. Its studio crafts semi-precious stones including tourmaline and pietersite sourced from Namibia.
Best for Cut gemstones and crystal specimens
Quito / Ecuador
La Mina has sold silver and gold-plated jewelry from its own Quito storefronts since 1988, with additional locations inside Centro Comercial Espiral, Megamaxi 6 de Diciembre and a Cumbayá mall. Its online shop lets shoppers order rings, earrings and chains for delivery across Ecuador alongside the brick-and-mortar counters.
Best for Silver and gold-plated rings, earrings, and chains from Quito storefronts since 1988
Main Bazaar, Leh
Started in 1974 with a small collection of jewellery and artefacts, Ladakh Art Palace has grown into a source for Ladakhi turquoise and silver jewellery, prayer wheels, ritual daggers and pashmina stoles. The business frames itself as an outlet supporting local artisans rather than a standard souvenir importer.
Best for Ladakhi turquoise and silver jewellery, prayer goods
Brisbane City
Established in 1985 and run across three generations, this independent jewellery house deals in rare antique and modern jewels, from 19th-century old-cut diamonds to Australian pink diamonds and south sea pearls. Its LD Atelier handles bespoke design, remodelling and restoration, with viewing appointments at boutiques in Brisbane City and Toowoomba.
Best for Antique and heirloom jewellery
Vancouver / Canada
Lattimer Gallery has promoted Northwest Coast Indigenous art from its Vancouver storefront since 1986, offering gold and silver jewellery, masks, bentwood boxes, and original paintings by both established and emerging artists. Its Charity Boxes initiative has raised over a million dollars to date, and pieces are available online or in person at the West 2nd Avenue gallery.
Best for Northwest Coast Indigenous jewellery, masks and bentwood boxes
Holbrook
Lema's Kokopelli Gallery is a family-owned business operating since 1987 selling Native American jewelry and Southwest art from Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, Santo Domingo and Kabana artisans, including Hopi silver overlay, Navajo turquoise and silver settings, Zuni stone inlay, and Santo Domingo beadwork. It also carries Pueblo pottery from Acoma, Hopi, Santa Clara and San Ildefonso.
Best for Hopi navajo zuni jewelry and pottery
Rotoava, Fakarava / French Polynesia
Working the Fakarava lagoon since 1989, Havaiki is a working pearl farm, run from the family lodge at Rotoava. Watch a graft, try your luck at the oyster lottery, and choose loose Tahitian pearls or house-made jewelry a few metres from the water that made them.
Best for Fakarava-grown pearls and a grafting demonstration
Galle
Trading in Galle since 1983 and licensed by Sri Lanka's National Gem and Jewellery Authority, Lihiniya sells Ceylon sapphires, loose precious and semi-precious stones and custom fine jewellery. Stones come with certificates on request, and the shop handles mail orders.
Best for Certified Ceylon sapphires and loose stones
Queen's Arcade, Belfast
Established in 1954, this family-run Belfast jeweller in Queen's Arcade specialises in fine jewellery and diamonds. Lunn's also carries luxury watches.
Best for Fine jewellery and luxury watches
Sardegna
M.G. di Moi Giancarlo has worked as a goldsmith since 1975 in Barisardo, Sardinia, hand-making Sardinian filigree jewelry in 18-karat gold and 925 silver. The workshop's pieces include traditional rings, kokko amulets, buttons and rosaries.
Best for Sardinian gold and silver filigree
Ta Qali Artisan Village, Attard
Malta Stone is a family-owned workshop in Ta’ Qali, founded in 1969 by Reuben Schembri's father. It sells jewelry, stone tabletops and wall clocks made from Maltese calcite and gemstones, with each slab cut to reveal its natural pattern before design.
Best for Calcite jewelry, stone clocks and tabletops
Mdina
Maltese Falcon Jewellery is the retail storefront of D Goldline, a family-owned jewellery manufacturer on Villegaignon Street in Mdina, tracing back to Goldline Ltd, founded by the Desira brothers in 1971. It makes handcrafted pieces featuring the Maltese Cross in sterling silver and 9Kt and 18Kt gold.
Best for Maltese Cross jewelry in silver and gold
Centro, BH Shopping
Founded in Belo Horizonte in 1970 by gem dealer Manoel Bernardes, this jeweller made its name on lesser-known Brazilian coloured stones, running its own rough-gem buying and lapidary work through Lapidação Minas Gerais. Now in family hands across several city stores, it designs its own pieces around Minas Gerais gems and also carries watch houses such as Rolex.
Best for Coloured-gemstone jewellery
Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Manohar Jewellers has traded in gold, diamond and kundan-polki pieces from Jodhpur since 1954, building a client base across generations rather than seasonal tourist turnover. Bridal sets and hallmark-certified gold remain its core trade, alongside custom commissions.
Best for Bridal gold and kundan-polki jewellery
Trissino / Veneto / Online
Gold jewelry house founded in Trissino, Veneto: Giuseppe Bicego opened a chain-making workshop there in 1958, and his son Marco launched his own eponymous line in 2000. All pieces are still handcrafted at the Trissino atelier by more than 60 goldsmiths.
Best for Hand-coiled gold jewelry.
Marco Bicego's roots trace to 1958, when Giuseppe Bicego opened a small workshop specializing in gold chains in Trissino, a town in Italy's Vicenza province with a long goldsmithing tradition. Marco, his son, spent childhood summers in his father's atelier watching the craftsmen work and later apprenticed there himself. In 2000 he launched his own eponymous collection, reworking his father's classic chain techniques into a more organic, sculptural style. The brand's signature Marrakech collection grew directly out of that workshop: Marco has said the coiled, twisted-strand bracelets were inspired by an imperfectly finished chain he noticed on his father's factory floor, which he refined into a deliberate design, with fine 18-karat gold strands hand-wound around a core to form soft, dune-like curves. The Trissino headquarters, where the company remains based, now employs more than 60 goldsmiths who hand-finish every piece; the company states that all Marco Bicego jewelry is made in that atelier rather than outsourced. The combination of a father's traditional chain-making workshop and a son's reinterpretation of it into a contemporary aesthetic is central to how the brand describes its own history, distinguishing it from larger industrial gold-jewelry manufacturers also based in the Veneto region's goldsmithing districts.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Mark Whitehorn has run his Johannesburg goldsmith studio since 1988, building repeat clientele on bespoke rings, bangles and signature pieces like the Mini Daisy necklace. The workshop still handles one-off and custom orders alongside its standing collections.
Best for Bespoke gold jewellery
Kalihi, Honolulu
Martin & MacArthur makes koa furniture in Hawaii and sells home furnishings alongside jewellery and accessories. Jon Martin founded the business in 1961, developing a workshop where experienced craftspeople worked with apprentices. Its Kalihi operation connects the furniture business with manufacture, while the wider retail assortment includes products beyond koa furniture.
Best for Hawaiian koa furniture and home furnishings
Martin & MacArthur began in 1961 with Jon Martin's intention to build a furniture workshop in Hawaii. The company's account describes experienced craftspeople working alongside apprentices and journeymen, passing on practical skills within the business. Furniture remains central to its identity, particularly pieces made from koa wood associated with the Hawaiian Islands.
Its history includes work in other timbers before koa became a major part of the range. A report on the company in 2011 places its factory in Kalihi and describes both traditional and simpler furniture designs. That distinction matters when choosing a piece, because the business is not confined to one historic decorative style.
The retail range also includes jewellery and accessories, together with art and other goods for the home. Those categories should be considered separately from the company's own koa furniture when asking about manufacture. Someone planning a furniture purchase can begin with the timber and intended use of the piece. A smaller gift purchase offers a different route through the same retailer without implying an identical production process.
Nafplio / Greece
MASKA Nafplio has traded on the old town's 'big road' since 1989, selling handmade jewellery and objects created exclusively by Greek designers and artists. Everything is made from natural materials such as silver, gold, wood, clay, glass and stone, including decorative pieces and lucky charms.
Best for Jewelry, handmade, Greek design, lucky charms
Nantucket / United States
Weaver Michael Kane has crafted Nantucket lightship baskets since 1969, building oak-staved, rattan-woven baskets often finished with scrimshaw and ivory carving. The Vestal Street workshop sells baskets and woven-motif gold and silver jewelry by appointment and through its online shop.
Best for Basketry, lightship baskets, jewelry
Vancouver / Canada
The MOA Shop, in the lobby of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, has featured Northwest Coast Indigenous and international artists since 1977, selling carvings, jewelry, prints, and books both in person and through a direct online store. Proceeds support the museum's acquisitions, publications, and public programs.
Best for Indigenous-art, museum-store
Boothbay Harbor
Opened in 1974, Mung Bean carries pottery, jewelry, wooden toys, woodenware, and Maine preserves from more than 300 domestic craftspeople. The shop has occupied Townsend Avenue since relocating to Boothbay Harbor in 1977.
Best for American-made handmade crafts
Nahalat Binyamin Street
The Nahalat Binyamin Artists' Fair has filled the pedestrian street beside the Carmel Market every Tuesday and Friday since 1988. Around 220 makers hold regular stalls, and every piece is handmade by the person selling it. The range runs from silver and beaded jewellery to ceramics and blown glass, with textiles, papier-mache dolls and Judaica alongside.
Best for Handmade jewelry, art prints, small objects
Nahalat Binyamin is one of the older streets of Tel Aviv and runs beside the Carmel Market. Twice a week it turns into an open-air fair of handmade work, and the Artists' Fair has run there every Tuesday and Friday since 1988. Around 220 creatives and makers take part, each with a regular pitch. A buyer who hesitates over a piece can return the following week to the same spot. The fair's rule is that all stalls are 100 percent handmade, and the makers sell their own work. Jewellers work in silver and gold as well as beads, gemstones, enamel, polymer clay or leather. Ceramicists bring vases and sculpture alongside serving dishes and Judaica. Glass artists show blown pieces alongside mosaic and stained glass, with wind chimes hanging above. There are painters and photographers along with caricaturists and silk artists, and sculptors work in wood, stone, wire or papier-mache. Textile stalls carry accessories and embroidery. Others sell bags and pieces for children's rooms. The doll makers offer knitted, felted or sculpted figures alongside marionettes and hand puppets. Paper artists bind books and cut paper, while woodworkers turn out puzzles and thinking games. The Judaica ranges across mezuzot, menorahs, challah covers and Passover plates. A 2023 Time Out guide points to glass dinnerware, ceramics, photography and scarves as the things visitors tend to carry home. The fair's own catalogue lists the artists by craft for anyone who wants to find a particular maker again on a later visit.
Harare
The National Handicraft Centre, founded in 1989 by the Government of Zimbabwe at 4 Grant Street, Harare, sells basketry, textiles, sculpture, pottery, stone and wood carvings, tribal masks and jewellery made using traditional methods, and links community producer groups, about 75% of them rural women, to the market. The centre has over 150 members and received first runner-up for Best Culture and Heritage Stand at the 2025 Sanganai Tourism Expo.
Best for Traditional Zimbabwean basketry and carvings
Sydney / Australia
Opal Minded has sold Australian opal jewelry from its boutique on Argyle Street in Sydney's historic Rocks precinct since 1989, with two in-house gemmologists on hand to help customers choose a piece. The company also mines its own stones at Jundah-Opalville and sells its collections through an online shop.
Best for Australian opal jewellery boutique
Queenstown / Online
Orbit Jewellery is the Queenstown studio of master jeweller Juerg P. Muff, who has been hand-crafting bespoke engagement rings, wedding bands and remodelled heirlooms since 1979. He sources alluvial gold directly from New Zealand goldfields and works with clients through a collaborative design process, from initial sketch to finished ethically-made piece.
Best for Bespoke engagement rings, wedding bands and remodeled heirlooms
Plaza Magdalena, Cobán
Orquiholic is a Guatemalan maker of handmade jewellery, clothing and accessories from natural orchids. Founder Jorge Carlos started the Altaverapacense orchid association in 1979, photographed orchids from 1990, and around 2000 developed encapsulated natural orchids. CONAP authorises sustainable use of the species.
Best for Jewellery
Winton, Central West Queensland
Steve and Narelle are second-generation Winton miners, selling Australian boulder opals direct—from essential and jewellery grades to collector stones and roughs. The stones are hand-mined from the Winton, Opalton, Vergemont and Elva fields their family has worked since 1964.
Best for Australian boulder opals direct from second-generation Winton miners
Kaikoura
A family-run paua shell workshop founded in 1987 by Brian and Lisa O'Connor, who moved the business from Riverton to Kaikoura in 1998 to be closer to the coast and its tourist trade. The factory cuts and polishes South Island paua alongside black pearl and mother-of-pearl into necklaces, earrings, buttons and beads on site.
Best for Paua shell jewellery and homeware
Dilworth
Dilworth gift shop open since 1989, stocking design-driven books, stationery, jewelry, and locally made and nostalgic gifts. It is a longtime source for Charlotte-themed prints and quirky finds.
Best for Books, cards, and Charlotte gifts
Umwinsidale, Haslemere Lane / Online
Patrick Mavros creates jewellery and silver objects inspired by African wildlife, with its Harare studio at Mpata Farm in Umwinsidale. The family business traces its beginnings to a pair of earrings made in 1978. Its work ranges from wearable pieces to table objects and sculpture, with another atelier in Mauritius.
Best for Wildlife jewellery and silver sculpture
Patrick Mavros traces the business to earrings Patrick made for Catja in 1978, a family gift that led to requests for more pieces. The family later established its Zimbabwe studio, and the Harare address remains Mpata Farm on Haslemere Lane in Umwinsidale. Animal forms connect much of the collection, from small jewellery to silver sculpture and objects for a dining table. The range includes elephant designs and bird studies, but the objects have different uses: a cufflink is a wearable piece, while a candelabrum becomes part of a table setting. All four sons entered the creative life of the business, and the company's history records a separate Mauritius jewellery studio opening in 2006. That second workshop matters when considering where an individual piece was made. Buyers can approach the Harare studio about available work or commissions, rather than treating the wider international catalogue as a guarantee of local stock. For a substantial sculpture, ask about its dimensions and delivery arrangements before deciding how it will travel home.
Palm Beach / United States
A jewellery boutique that began in France in 1963 and settled on Worth Avenue in 2003, Peggy Daven handcrafts most of its playful, elegant pieces locally. The shop stays open year-round, adding new creations for each Palm Beach season.
Best for Fine jewelry, handcrafted, Palm Beach
Block Island (New Shoreham)
Peter Gibbons has designed and hand-made jewellery on Block Island since 1975, working in sterling silver and 14-karat gold. His line runs from island charms and bracelets to solid-brass robe hooks, each piece made to order and priced by phone as metal costs shift.
Best for Handmade island jewellery and charms
Tulsa
Pierson Gallery, established in 1986 with locations in Sapulpa and the I-44 Antique Mall in Tulsa, exhibits paintings, pottery, ceramics, baskets, weavings and Old Pawn Native American jewelry alongside works by historic Oklahoma artists Willard Stone, Charles Banks Wilson and Alexandre Hogue.
Best for Oklahoma art and native antiques
Juneau, Alaska, USA
Pioneer Jewelers began as a Franklin Street storefront in 1975, selling natural gold nuggets sourced from Alaska and Yukon mining districts alongside vintage jewelry and Alaskan artwork. The physical shop closed in 2016 but the founders kept the business going as an online store selling the same one-of-a-kind pieces.
Best for Alaskan gold nugget jewelry and vintage finds
Milan / Online
Milanese jewelry house founded in 1967 by Pino Rabolini, credited with pioneering prêt-à-porter fine jewelry in Italy; owned by the Rabolini family until Kering acquired it in 2013. Its Nudo ring — a bare faceted gemstone in a four-claw gold setting — is its signature design.
Best for Nudo rings and colored-stone everyday luxury.
Pomellato was founded in Milan in 1967 by Pino Rabolini (1936-2018), who came from a family with a background in goldsmithing but wanted to move fine jewelry away from its traditional, occasion-only role. Rather than pieces reserved for formal events, Rabolini designed jewelry meant to be worn as part of daily life — an approach the brand and Italian press later described as prêt-à-porter jewelry, borrowing ready-to-wear language from fashion. Early pieces were reportedly inspired by women from Milan's creative circles who frequented Bar Jamaica, a well-known meeting spot in the city's Brera district. The house built its identity on colored gemstones and soft, wearable gold work rather than the diamond-centric formality of traditional high jewelry. In 2001 Pomellato introduced the Nudo ring, its now-signature design: a large faceted colored stone held by a simple four-prong gold setting with no pavé or additional stonework, letting the color and cut of the gem stand on its own; the line has since extended across rings, earrings and other jewelry in numerous stone and gold-tone combinations. The Rabolini family controlled Pomellato through its holding company RA.MO until 2013, when the French luxury group Kering acquired the house. Pomellato continues to produce from its own atelier in Milan.
Leicester
Established in 1974, Ram Jewellers makes custom Indian-style gold jewellery and trades gold coins and bars, with testimonials describing customers now three generations loyal. It builds pieces to commission rather than selling only fixed stock.
Best for Bespoke gold jewellery commissions
Place Vendôme / 1st
High-jewelry house founded in Turin in 1957 by Costantino Repossi; the maison moved to Place Vendome in 1986 and was reoriented toward avant-garde, architectural design by creative director Gaia Repossi from 2010; its store was designed by Rem Koolhaas's OMA.
Best for Architectural fine jewelry
Costantino Repossi founded his goldsmith house in Turin in 1957, and the family moved its stage to Place Vendôme in 1986 — Italian jewelers on French jewelry's holiest square. But the maison's modern identity belongs to the fourth generation: Gaia Repossi, appointed artistic director in 2010 at 21, an archaeology and fine-arts student who redrew the catalogue with a minimalist's nerve.
Her Berbère collection — parallel gold bands inspired by Amazigh culture, climbing the ear as fashion's definitive ear cuff — made Repossi the jewelry of the art-and-fashion crowd; Serti Sur Vide set stones in apparent thin air; Antifer stacked geometry into signatures. Piercing-style delicacy replaced dynastic pomp, and the white-cube Vendôme boutique, redesigned by Rem Koolhaas's OMA, made the position architectural.
LVMH invested in 2015 and built its stake to a majority, keeping Gaia at the pencil. Repossi remains the square's contemporary conscience: Italian goldsmith bones, Parisian address, and the rare high-jewelry house whose customer is younger than its metal.
Plymouth / United Kingdom
Fine Jewellers Robins+Robins has traded from 131 Cornwall Street in Plymouth since 1988, handcrafting engagement rings, bespoke commissions and restorations for a clientele who value more than three decades of continuity. The no-appointment-necessary showroom sits alongside a full online collection of rings, necklaces, earrings and bangles.
Best for Jewelry, Fine Jewellers, Bespoke Commissions
Kabira, Ishigaki Island, Okinawa
Founded in 1951 by Susumu Tokashiki at Kabira Bay, this pearl farm was the first in the world to successfully mass-produce black pearls, cultured from black-lipped oysters in the northernmost waters where the species grows. Its Kabira, Ishigaki and airport stores sell the black and South Sea pearls the company still farms and grafts by hand.
Best for Cultured black pearls (Ryukyu pearls) and South Sea pearl jewelry
60 E. San Francisco Street, Ste #218, Santa Fe Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Founded in 1972 by Santa Fe native David Griego, Santa Fe Goldworks handcrafts gold jewelry set with diamonds, turquoise, Mediterranean coral and Australian opals on the historic Santa Fe Plaza. Its River of Love and Zia Series collections are built using lost-wax casting and stone inlay.
Best for Handcrafted Southwestern fine jewelry
Paris / Online
Paris costume-jewelry house operating since 1987, designing bohemian, travel-inspired pieces - rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings mixing hard stones, seed beads, feathers and vintage-jewelry references.
Best for Colorful bohemian jewelry with stones, beads, and metalwork
Maison Satellite has designed and produced fashion jewelry in Paris since 1987, building a catalogue centered on a bohemian, 'gipsy' aesthetic that draws on travel and folk motifs rather than fine-jewelry materials. Collections combine semi-precious and hard stones with seed beads, feathers, lacquer and velvet ribbon, and the house describes its work as blending vintage-jewelry references with souvenirs of travel across cultures. The brand sells rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings through its own Paris boutique and webstore, positioning itself in the affordable, costume-jewelry segment of French fashion accessories rather than as a fine jeweler. It has maintained a consistent design identity across nearly four decades in business, and continues to release named seasonal collections built around the same boho-chic vocabulary.
Baytown, Texas
Sharon 'Shay' Gorman Rogers has sold jewelry in Baytown since 1978. The case holds bridal sets, diamonds and watches — Rolex, Omega, Seiko — and the bench will redesign an old piece or repair a watch the same day, with service in English and Spanish. Grandson Brandon Gorman manages; a second shop opened in Mont Belvieu.
Best for Jewelry repair, custom work and bilingual service
Colombo 03
Sifani is a jewellery business established in 1970 whose collections centre on coloured gemstones. Its online catalogue includes sapphire jewellery in gold alongside pieces using stones such as morganite. The company lists retail locations in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, as well as London.
Best for Coloured-gemstone jewellery
Sifani Jewellers is a family-run coloured-stone jewellery business established in 1970. Its designs draw on the turquoise water and white sand of the Maldives and the plant life of Sri Lanka, translating those colours into gemstone combinations rather than treating the islands as a generic motif. The company describes a collaborative process between designers and craftspeople. Stones are handpicked and paired, then balanced for proportion and symmetry before setting. Current pieces give that practice material detail. The catalogue includes an 18k white-gold star sapphire ring accented with diamonds. An 18k pink-gold morganite pendant offers another combination, while a white-gold butterfly necklace uses pink sapphires and diamonds. Those examples show a focus on coloured stones across rings and pendants, with necklaces extending the range. Sifani operates stores in Sri Lanka and the Maldives and maintains a customer-relations office in London. The business also names Pahamune House and a vocational training institute among its social programmes. A jewellery-setting school completes that group. The 1970 foundation and hand-selection process make the entry more specific than a general luxury-jewellery description. Its regional gemstone palette and family-run network root the business in Sri Lanka.
Hargeisa
This family jewellery house began in Borama, Somaliland in 1988 and mines, grades, and sets its own gemstones and 21-karat gold, keeping operations in Hargeisa alongside its Gold Souk base in Dubai. The range runs from loose emeralds to chains, bangles, and rings.
Best for Gold jewellery and Somaliland gemstones
District 1
Vietnam's dominant gold brand, founded in 1988 as a Ho Chi Minh City state enterprise and restructured as Saigon Jewelry Company Limited in 2010; the State Bank of Vietnam named it the country's sole authorized gold-bar producer in 2011.
Best for Vietnamese gold jewellery and bullion from SJC
SJC — Saigon Jewelry Company — began in 1988 as a state-owned enterprise under the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, later restructured into Saigon Jewelry Company Limited in 2010. Its position in Vietnam's gold market became effectively unmatched in May 2011, when the State Bank of Vietnam designated SJC as the sole entity authorized to produce gold bars nationwide, a decision intended to let the state more tightly control gold inventories and intervene in domestic gold pricing.
At its commercial peak, between 2007 and 2011, SJC gold bars accounted for around 90% of gold transactions in Vietnam and roughly 85% of gold held by individuals and organizations, with SJC bars also commonly used as a store of value in real estate deals. In 2011 the company ranked fourth among Vietnam's top 500 largest enterprises, posting revenue of about VND111 trillion (roughly $4.47 billion) that year.
The brand's dominance has not been without controversy: Vietnamese courts have convicted a former senior SJC gold executive and more than a dozen others in a case tied to state losses from the gold monopoly system, and the government has since moved to scale back that monopoly in favor of a more market-based approach to gold trading.
Liberty Market and MM Alam Road, Lahore, Pakistan
Sonica Jewellers opened in Lahore's Panorama Market in 1978 under founder Haji Sheikh M. Saliheen before expanding into Liberty Market and later DHA and MM Alam Road. The house specializes in polki, kundan, and gold bridal sets, and still operates as a family business among his successors.
Best for Polki, kundan, and gold bridal jewellery
Nairobi / Kenya
Founded in 1985, Spinners Web is a Nairobi showroom drawing on more than 500 Kenyan and sub-Saharan workshops for handmade baskets, jewelry, textiles, woodwork and home decor. Housed in a Scandinavian-influenced building with a garden cafe, the shop is open six days a week at Kitisuru Road.
Best for Crafts, baskets, jewelry, home decor, textiles
Vail / United States
Squash Blossom has sold fine designer and vintage jewelry from its storefront in Vail Village since 1973, now run by Hilary and Kevin Magner alongside the shop's original turquoise Squash Blossom pieces. The full collection, from Native American Southwestern jewelry to designer collaborations, ships through the boutique's own online store.
Best for Jewelry Boutique
Char Kaman, Ghansi Bazaar, Charminar, Hyderabad
Operating from Char Kaman in the Charminar pearl market since 1954, Sri Bansilal Baseshwarlal Pearls is known locally as the government-registered pearl shop of the old city. It sells loose pearls by weight as well as finished necklaces, chokers, and Nizami-style jewelry in gold and silver settings.
Best for Loose pearls and Nizami-style jewelry
Two Rivers / Ruaka, Nairobi
Taj Gems & Jewellery says it was established in 1981. It specializes in gemstone jewellery, tanzanites and loose gemstones.
Best for Tanzanite and gemstone jewellery
Sector 22D, Chandigarh
Talwar Jewellery House opened in Chandigarh in 1993, carrying forward a family jewellery trade that reached the city in 1954. From SCF 13, Sector 22D it sells gold and diamond jewellery designed and produced in its own workshops. A heritage line handcrafted in Rajasthan brings rubies and emeralds alongside pearls and meenakari enamel work.
Best for Handcrafted polki, kundan and diamond jewellery
The Talwar story begins in the mid-1940s, when bench jeweller Dina Nath Talwar moved back to Punjab from Burma at the outset of the Second World War. After Indian independence, the new city of Chandigarh was announced to replace the lost capital of Punjab. In 1954 Dina Nath Talwar moved to the young city with his son Kailash Chand Talwar and two brothers. In 1993 Kailash Chand Talwar and his son Sandeep Talwar opened Talwar Jewellery House, which now trades from SCF 13 in Sector 22D. The firm designs and produces its range in its own workshops. Individual pieces are built around rare natural-coloured diamonds, unusual coloured gemstones or pearls. Gold is the precious metal used throughout the jewellery, chosen for the way it complements a diamond or a gemstone. A heritage collection is handcrafted by artisans in Rajasthan. It features rubies and emeralds alongside pearls and elaborate meenakari enamel work. The house invites shoppers to look closely at colour and enamel and at the arrangement of stones. Questions about the materials and care of each design are welcomed. Store visits can be arranged by appointment, and the family counts five generations in the jewellery trade across more than 100 years.
Essaouira
Tazra Bijoux Ethnique is a jewelry line created by Omar Samat, described on Instagram as a jewelry designer working since 1982 in Essaouira.
Best for Ethnic jewellery pieces
899 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, California
The Bead Shop has sold beads, gemstones, and finished jewelry from its South Coast Highway location since 1973, with a workbench area where customers can string their own pieces from house supplies. It also offers permanent-jewelry welding, repairs, and private jewelry-making classes.
Best for Bead jewelry-making and permanent jewelry
Parnell
The Fantail House sells New Zealand-made gifts from a Parnell building built in 1980 by Les and Zena Harvey. A second store trades in Rotorua. It carries work from more than 160 local artisans, from pounamu greenstone jewellery to possum merino knitwear. Only goods designed and made in New Zealand are stocked.
Best for Authentic New Zealand-made gifts, souvenirs and greenstone jewellery
The Fantail House is a New Zealand-made gift shop at 237 Parnell Road in Parnell, Auckland, with a second store at 1203 Tutanekai Street in Rotorua. It stocks work from more than 160 New Zealand artisans and creatives. Everything sold was designed, created, crafted or printed in the country. The Parnell building was built in 1980 by Les and Zena Harvey. The business traded there as The Elephant House before it became The Fantail House. The shop says its collection has been assembled in Parnell for nearly 50 years. Ranges include pounamu greenstone jewellery, possum merino knitwear by Native World, and wool and mohair as well as organic merino and alpaca pieces by Masterweave. Vintage New Zealand tourism prints sit beside native bird prints from Buller's Birds, along with kitchen and homeware, Kiwiana keepsakes and easy-to-post gifts. Free eco-friendly gift wrapping and card writing are offered, and orders ship nationwide and internationally. Gifting for businesses and conferences is handled as a separate service. In March 2026 three staff travelled to the South Island to learn more about pounamu. The shop's journal records the trip and the cultural significance of the stone.
County Donegal, Dunfanaghy
The Gallery, in a stone building at Figart, Dunfanaghy that was built in the 1840s as the Fever Hospital for Dunfanaghy Workhouse and later a national school, opened in 1968 under artist Frank Egginton and has since been run by his daughter Moira and son-in-law Alan Harley. It sells arts, crafts, antiques and jewellery.
Best for Arts crafts and antiques
Vail / United States
The Golden Bear has handcrafted its signature bear-motif jewelry in a Vail studio since 1975, when founder Lee Kirch opened the landmark store in Vail Village. Metalsmiths still make the pendants, rings, and earrings in gold and silver on-site, sold both in the Vail Village shop and through the brand's online store.
Best for Jewelry, Goldsmith
Ground Floor, Darabshaw House, Shoorji Vallabhdas Road, Ballard Estate, Mumbai 400001 / Mumbai / India
Mint (2025-01-19) records that Purnima Sheth founded Rose in 1981 as a small boutique in Mumbai's Opera House jewellery district.
Best for A Mumbai boutique founded in the Opera House jewellery district in 1981.
PRINTEMPS
German jewelry and accessories house founded in 1984 in Lauf an der Pegnitz by Thomas Sabo, a trained precision mechanic; built its name on ear cuffs and charm bracelets, opened its first store in Frankfurt in 1998, and now sells through roughly 1,200 points of sale in some 70 countries.
Best for Sterling charm jewelry storytelling since 1984
Thomas Sabo GmbH & Co. KG was founded on 8 May 1984 by Thomas Sabo, a trained precision mechanic, in Lauf an der Pegnitz, Bavaria. The company initially sold imported jewelry from Asia before developing its own collections, working with graphic designer Susanne Kolbli to shape its early aesthetic. Its breakthrough product was an ear cuff inspired by London punk style, which became a widely recognised fashion item and helped establish the brand beyond its regional origins. Thomas Sabo opened its first dedicated retail store in Frankfurt am Main in 1998, and has since built out a global network combining owned stores, e-commerce and retail partners.
Mbabane
Founded in 1985, Tintsaba works with rural Eswatini women to create finely graded sisal baskets, silver jewellery and home décor, including certified Master Weaver pieces. Its work is sold from the Peak Fine Craft Center in Piggs Peak.
Best for Basketry, sisal, silver-jewellery
Zuni
Turquoise Village, founded in 1978 by the late Gregory Hofmann on the Zuni reservation and acquired by the Dodson family in 2019, purchases inventory directly from Zuni artisans, selling hand-carved fetishes, jewelry, pottery, kachinas, beadwork, baskets and Navajo rugs.
Best for Zuni fetishes and native art
Wasserburg / Germany
Founded in 1955 and now run by its third and fourth generation, this family watch and jewellery shop in Wasserburg am Inn's historic old town sells engagement and wedding rings alongside brands like Michel Herbelin and Seiko. The shop also offers repairs, battery changes, engraving, and ear piercing from its location on Ledererzeile.
Best for Engagement and wedding rings alongside brands like Michel Herbelin and Seiko
22 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris
One of the world's most prestigious jewelry maisons — the Alhambra motif since 1968 and the patented Mystery Set. Its salon at 22 Place Vendôme is the spiritual home of French high jewelry, defined by craftsmanship and stone selection.
Best for Alhambra jewelry and Mystery Set stones.
Van Cleef & Arpels began as a marriage: Estelle Arpels and Alfred Van Cleef wed in 1895, and in 1906 their families opened a boutique at 22 Place Vendôme, where the maison still stands. The address matters — this is the square's romantic jeweler, the one that made poetry rather than power its register.
Two inventions define the house. The Mystery Set, patented in 1933, seats rubies and sapphires so no metal shows — a carpet of pure stone that only a handful of the maison's own hands can execute. And the Alhambra, born 1968, turned a quatrefoil of luck into the most recognizable motif in fine jewelry, worn from Grace Kelly's era to this morning's métro. Between them came the Minaudière, the jeweled evening case the house invented in the 1930s, and the zip necklace suggested by the Duchess of Windsor.
The Place Vendôme salon remains the pilgrimage point: high-jewelry ballerinas, fairy clips, and stone selection that jewelers themselves speak of in lowered voices.
Portofino / Italy
Verga 1947 is a fourth-generation Milanese watch and jewellery house that opened its first boutique outside Milan on Portofino's waterfront at Calata Marconi 45, carrying Hublot, Girard-Perregaux, Grand Seiko and Pomellato. The roughly 40-square-metre space also offers Verga's own pre-owned watch selection.
Best for Watches, Jewelry
Fremantle, Perth
Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre has operated from a heritage building at 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle, since 1973, hosting exhibitions, workshops and live music on Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodjar. Its WFAC Shop sells contemporary Western Australian craft, art and design including paintings, jewellery, textiles and Indigenous-made items.
Best for Arts centre shop and exhibitions
Plaza, Santa Fe
Wind River Trading Company, on San Francisco Street in Santa Fe, has operated locally for over 43 years selling Navajo and Zuni jewelry, fine gold jewelry and Pueblo pottery, including a 1960s Santa Clara pot by Belen Tapia and a 1963 Inter-Tribal Ceremonial ribbon-winning Hopi bowl by Garnet Pavateah.
Best for Navajo and zuni jewelry and pottery
Newport Beach / United States
Family-owned since 1969, Winston's Crown Jewelers runs a Newport Beach showroom of fine jewelry, rare diamonds and pre-owned luxury watches. Shoppers view rings, necklaces and timepieces in person or browse and buy through the online store.
Best for Jeweler, fine jewelry, diamonds, watches
Quebec City / Canada
Family-run since 1952, WR Savard's jewellers design and forge nearly all of their rings and pieces by hand in their Quebec City workshop at 2485 chemin Saint-Louis in Sillery. The boutique also handles repairs, laser soldering, engraving, and jewelry restoration for walk-in customers.
Best for Fine Jewelry, Custom Jewelry Design
Saddar, Karachi, Pakistan
Zanvari has worked silver in Saddar, Karachi since 1947, the year Pakistan was founded, and is now run by the third generation of the family workshop. It sets 925 sterling silver with genuine gemstones, moissanite, and pearls to order rather than casting in bulk, and backs the jewellery with free lifetime replating and a buyback program.
Best for Sterling silver jewellery, made to order
Zanvari opened as a family silver workshop in Saddar, Karachi, in 1947, the year Pakistan itself came into being, and three generations later the bench is still in the same quarter. The craft passed from grandfather to father to son, and the house frames the inheritance as a conviction rather than a technique: jewellery should be made with intention, set with genuine stones and built to outlast its buyer. Work is in 925 sterling silver finished with rhodium or 22k gold plating, set with certified moissanite, natural gemstones such as ruby and sapphire, and freshwater pearls. Every piece is made to order, so production takes weeks rather than days, and the crafting time is stated on each product page. Two promises follow the sale. Plating that fades is renewed free for as long as the owner keeps the piece, in rhodium or gold tones. Any Zanvari piece can also be sold back to the house for half of what was paid. Men's ranges include aqeeq and feroza stone rings alongside cufflinks. The workshop sits at Shop No. 5, Gems Jewelers and Trade Centre, Blenken Street, and visitors are welcome to hold a piece and meet its makers. Visits are arranged by appointment through WhatsApp or email.
Podgorica / Montenegro
Founded in 1986 at the corner of Miljana Vukova and Balšića streets, this family goldsmith workshop is a Podgorica craft jeweler, still producing gold and silver pieces on-site alongside repairs. A second, silver-only branch opened further along the same street in 2021, with free delivery covering all of Montenegro.
Best for Jewelry, Goldsmith, Gold & Silver
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