End of Summer Homework: Planning Your Holiday Engagement
Planning a holiday engagement? Let us give you one piece of advice: you need to start your ring design process now. Depending on your circumstances, that might be a bit daunting. Maybe you have never shopped for fine jewelry before, or maybe you don’t have a firm grip on the best style for your engagement ring design. Lucky for you, we kind of specialize in this sort of thing…
Custom v. Bespoke v. Private Jeweler: Do You Know the Difference?
When picking the right jeweler for your project, things can get confusing. Most jewelers now advertise some form of “custom design” but it can be difficult to know exactly what this means until you are in the middle of a sales pitch…
Do’s and Don’ts of Caring for Fine Jewelry
Taking care of fine jewelry doesn’t need to be complicated. When clients pick up their completed rings with us, we always give them the run down on how to best care for their new piece but the summary is pretty straightforward: get it professionally checked regularly and keep an eye on it. That being said, sometimes it’s helpful to know what to do and what not to do, so here is a simple breakdown of our best recommendations from our workshop…
Buying a Sapphire with Alx&Co.
I love sapphires and in so many ways I even prefer them to diamonds. From a gemologist’s perspective, walking through different sapphires with clients is a much more interesting process than with a typical round brilliant cut diamond search because there are so many more variables to go over between the stones…
Our Top Three Tips for Buying a Diamond
Starting a diamond search can be a daunting task, but we try to make the process as easy going as possible. Unlike many other jewelers, we do all of our diamond searches on a custom basis, meaning we don’t keep an inventory on hand for selling….