In the Spotlight – Handmade by DJHill

Simple and Beautiful, 18 carat white gold ruby pendant. 
Handmade in Sheffield by David.

In the Spotlight – Amethyst and Diamond Dress Ring

Amethyst is one of our favourite stones. From the quartz family, its beautiful purple colour looks fantastic set alongside diamonds. On the MOHS scale,amethyst being 7, diamond the hardest at 10, makes it a very wearable and durable stone. With great history the ancient greeks believed it would stop you becoming intoxicated, and Leonardo Da Vinci, thought it could make you more intelligent and less likely to think evil thoughts.

This very large cushion shaped amethyst measuring 11x9mm, is surrounded by a halo of 1.5mm diamonds. It is set in 18 carat white gold with a yellow gold shank. The amethyst is a fancy harlequin cut, the facets on the stone catch the light beautifully, as you turn your hand. If your looking for something unusual, or a real statement piece, then this is the ring for you. The photographs just don’t do this justice.

I think, that because its a beautiful mid colour amethyst, it looks great on any skin tone!!

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In the Spotlight – Twist Engagement Ring

Another one of our stunning commission pieces hand finished in our workshop by David.

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Into the workshop – Handmade by DJH

One of our latest commission pieces created here in our workshop. Created for a lovely gentleman as an engagement ring, for one very lucky lady. This piece is one of the more unusual pieces we have made in the workshop, so we thought we’d share it with you, along with a few little snippets off David making the piece. 

If you would like something made for you drop us a quick email hallmarkdavidjohn@live.com or give David a call directly at the workshop 0114 2669192.

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In the Spotlight – Diamond Set Flower

This stunning white gold diamond set flower is perfect for spring summer.

Available from our Sheffield branch for £350.

In the Spotlight. Bvlgari Ring.

This stunning Bvlgari BZERO1 ring recently came into stock second hand. Its iconic design means that the ring bounces, which is actually quite fun to play with!

It would look great as a gents or ladies ring, made in 18 carat white gold with Bvlgari engraved on each side it really is a stunning ring.

Available from our Retford store for £750. 

Our Favourite Summer Pendant!

As I am sure your all aware yellow is going to be a wardrobe staple for spring summer 2015, so we thought we would share with you all this beautiful understated flower pendant. Made in silver by Nicole Barr with pretty yellow enamel petals and a white topaz centre. This piece would look stunning with any summer outfit and at £69.95 its a steal! Available from Hallmark Goldsmiths in Retford.

This Weeks Favourite Item of Jewellery

This stunning Ruby and Diamond ring is one of our newest pieces to come into stock. The Ruby is a 0.75 carat with a beautiful cerise pink tone, it is surrounded by 10 diamonds at 0.03 of a carat each. It isn’t a hallmarked piece so we can not be sure on an exact date. With yellow gold split shoulders and white gold claw settings this piece is very beautiful. The white settings really show of the colour of the ruby and gives the diamonds the illusion of being bigger than they actually are. It is a very traditional ring, but is such a statement piece so it would make a stunning engagement ring or dress ring.

We love it, but what do you think?

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Handmade Item of the Week : Diamond Set Engagement Ring DJH

It all began when a lovely young gentleman came into the shop with a group of old vintage rings that he had inherited, he wanted to use the diamonds and the gold to create something completely different for his girlfriend and now fiancé, as they were not to his taste. So after a long discussion to find out exactly what he wanted, Heather one of our onsite designers began drawing a few different designs for the customer to look at.

Once a decision had been made we set on with removing all the diamonds from the rings and melting down the remaining metal. From then we began long process of rolling and shaping the ring into something beautiful. After this process we then go ahead and set all the diamonds. He had chosen a setting that created a diamond shape, which gave the illusion of one very large diamond in the centre. There was then another three smaller diamonds set on each side of the shoulders to give the ring that extra sparkle.

It is one of our great joys reinventing old jewellery into something new and exciting, it means that the customer is able to keep the sentimentality and have something that nobody else has. I personally think the ring is fantastic and whilst photographing i genuinely did not want to remove it from my finger.

If you have some old Jewellery you want reinventing give visit our website or give us a call directly at the workshop 01142669192.

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