23 stores · curated ORBIS register
South African jewelry pairs Durban goldsmith houses with Cape Town studios here. Brettland Poulsen takes handmade custom jewelry and heirloom commissions from a merged Durban goldsmith house, with bench work visible to anyone who asks. Jenna Clifford works bespoke jewellery and heirloom remodelling in Johannesburg. Anpa finishes organic hand-made artisan jewellery with sculptural statement pieces in gold, silver, Tanzanite. Commission work takes time; plan for the wait and the piece will outlast every trend you brought with you.
V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
The store sits at The Alfred in Cape Town's V&A Waterfront, open daily from 9am to 8pm, and sells contemporary African fashion, homeware and gifts including jewelry, ceramics, basketware and stationery. Its collections carry names such as Zulu Beading, Mud Cloth and Raw Earth Ceramics, and it features work by Monkeybiz beadwork and Imiso Ceramics.
Best for African fashion homeware and gifts
Kalk Bay / Online
Anpa is a Cape Town house for organic hand-finished artisan jewellery, sculptural statement pieces in gold, silver, Tanzanite, African emeralds. Made through the Kalk Bay jewelry workshop.
Best for Organic hand-finished artisan jewellery, sculptural statement pieces in gold, silver, Tanzanite
Milnerton, Cape Town
Clayheart is a porcelain ceramics studio based in Milnerton Business Park, Cape Town, making made-to-order homeware, decor and jewelry by hand and taking custom designs. It also offers pottery classes for adults and kids, workshops, and studio rental for independent artists.
Best for Handmade porcelain homeware and pottery classes
164 Bree Street, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town 8000, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa
The Cape Town studio makes jewellery and sells from its Bree Street studio-shop. Production is associated with South Africa, while the range centers on locally authored jewelry with disclosed technique.
Best for Jewellery made and sold from a Bree Street studio-shop.
13 Park Road, Gardens, Cape Town 8001, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa
The Cape Town studio says its jewellery is handmade in the city and publishes one Gardens shop-studio.
Best for Handmade Cape Town jewellery from a Gardens shop-studio.
Cape Town
Ilonka Jewellers is a Cape Town manufacturing goldsmith studio owned by goldsmith Ilonka Doyle, who blends age-old goldsmithing techniques with modern technology. The studio makes custom jewellery and engagement rings using diamonds and precious and semi-precious stones, and also offers sizing, repairs and valuations.
Best for Custom-made engagement rings and jewellery
Shop 6202, Upstairs, V&A Waterfront, 19 Dock Road, Cape Town 8001, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa
The Cape Town house makes sculptural jewellery and maintains a named V&A retail door. Production is associated with South Africa, while the range centers on locally authored jewelry with disclosed technique.
Best for Sculptural jewellery from a Cape Town house with a V&A retail shop.
Strand Street, Cape Town
Stefan's Jewellery and Gems, owned by Stefan Nowotny with two decades of experience, is located at Unit 709, 47 On Strand, Strand Street, Cape Town, and operates by appointment only. It handmakes rings including solitaire, trilogy and eternity styles, and sells loose diamonds and gemstones such as tanzanite.
Best for Handmade diamond and gemstone rings
Bree Street / Online
The Corner Store is a retailer in Cape Town for south African accessories, jewelry, textiles and homeware from partner brands.
Best for South African accessories, jewelry, textiles and homeware from partner brands
Sea Point, Cape Town
Founded by Ashleigh Battle Russell, the concept store operates from 77 Regent Road, Sea Point and 15 Vineyard Road, Claremont, selling dresses, tops, bottoms, active wear, swimwear, jewelry and lifestyle items from its own line and partner brands including BeachCult and Ivana.
Best for Curated women's fashion and swimwear
Cape Town
Trigg Jewellers, at Shop G2, Dreyer Street, Cape Town, has operated for over 80 years as what it calls one of Cavendish Square's oldest tenants, making bespoke jewellery across all precious metals including rings, chains and cuff links. It also represents the watch brands Longines and Tissot and offers valuations from an in-house GIA and ISG trained grader.
Best for Bespoke jewellery and Longines Tissot watches
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
Melville, Johannesburg
The shop at The Bamboo Centre, Johannesburg is a collaborative retail space shared between about 21 independent South African designers, selling women's clothing and jewelry from brands including Athena A, BMC Fine Jewellery, Campbell Armoury and Isabel de Villiers.
Best for Independent designer clothing and jewelry
Sandton City, Johannesburg
The Instagram profile for JAMAA lists retail locations at Artcaffé Market on Rhapta Road and at Village Market, both in Nairobi. Its story highlights feature brands including SHEKUDO, mille collines, Crystal Birch, BeachCult and Adele Dejak.
Best for Curated fashion and jewelry
Johannesburg, South Africa
Jenna Clifford has designed bespoke jewellery from Johannesburg since 1992, staying a family-run operation that deliberately limits output rather than scaling into mass production. Beyond custom commissions, the studio also remodels inherited pieces into new designs, keeping old stones and sentiment in circulation.
Best for Bespoke jewellery and heirloom remodelling
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
Risidale, Johannesburg
Studio Loubser traces back to 1992 as Liz Loubser Designer Jewellers, merging into its current form in 2017 while staying in Risidale and working in gold, silver, platinum and found objects. The studio takes clients through full bespoke commissions — engagement rings, brooches, one-off pieces — and runs its own jewellery-making classes.
Best for Bespoke gold and platinum jewellery
Johannesburg, South Africa
Since 2005, Veronica Anderson Jewellery has showcased handmade work from a rotating group of South African goldsmiths and designers rather than one house style. Its bespoke service also reworks existing jewellery into new pieces, treating old gold and stones as raw material for redesign.
Best for Handmade jewellery from South African designers
Victoria Wharf, V&A Waterfront
A family jewellery house trading since 1899, Charles Greig pairs its own designed and manufactured fine jewellery with luxury Swiss timepieces at its Victoria Wharf boutique. Four generations have run the firm, whose bench work sits alongside its watch retailing.
Best for Heritage fine jewellery and watches
Charles Greig arrived in South Africa from Scotland aboard the RMS Scot in 1894, stepping ashore in Cape Town. In 1899 he founded his watchmaking and jewellery business in Johannesburg at the height of the gold boom. The firm became the first in South Africa to import and sell Rolex watches, a relationship the family dates to the early 1900s. In the 1950s his son David completed a year's watchmaking course in Switzerland and joined the business. The grandsons Christopher, Donald and Richard Greig took the firm forward. A fifth generation now shares the custodianship with Tammy Greig. Christopher and Richard remain involved in the jewellery side, while Donald pursued sculpture. In 2026 the family opened a Rolex boutique at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, linking the city where the founder landed with the one where he built the business. Among the pieces shown there is a cushion-shaped Rolex dated by the watchmaker's historical department to between 1916 and 1918. Beyond retail the firm supports conservation projects and sports academies, with young artists alongside.
Thesen Island, Knysna
Goldsmiths Knysna, founded in 2007 by owner and goldsmith Darryl van der Velde, is a manufacturing jeweller at TH18, Thesen Harbour Town, Long Street, Knysna, making bespoke engagement rings, heirloom jewellery and statement pieces in gold and platinum. It uses a certified CAD specialist and jewellery design software to draw designs to scale before handcrafting them.
Best for Bespoke gold and platinum engagement rings
City Centre
Trading since the early 1980s from the heritage Huguenot House on Loop Street, this family diamond house cuts and sets stones on the premises and keeps a deep case of antique and estate jewellery. Bench jewellers work in view, remodelling heirlooms and making engagement rings to order.
Best for Diamonds and estate jewellery
Hermanus
Pure South, at Shop 5, 155 Main Road, Hermanus, features the art, ceramics and fine crafts of talented artists from around South Africa across categories including ceramics, craft, jewellery and paintings. It stays open until 8pm on the first Friday of each month from September to May.
Best for South African craft ceramics and jewellery
V&A Waterfront
Founded by German master goldsmith Uwe Koetter in the 1960s, this family jeweller designs and hand-fabricates engagement rings, tanzanite and diamond pieces at its own Cape Town workshop. The Waterfront showroom displays award-winning bespoke commissions made on the bench rather than bought in.
Best for Bespoke fine jewellery
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