Engagement Rings
Based on family jewellery

Over the years we have been approached by people who have inherited, for example, their grandmother's engagement ring, would love to wear it but feel it doesn't match their style. We take great delight in offering a service where we can rework an old piece of family jewellery into a more modern and appropriate style. This can be done in various ways:

Re-using stones
Stones can normally be removed from old pieces and reused in a completely new engagement ring. There is always a risk that the stone may be damaged during this operation, though only a small one. In common with all jewellers, we cannot take responsibility for any damage - having said that it has never happened to us as yet.

Reworking old designs
We are always happy to use your existing engagement ring as the basis for your new one, whether this actually involves repairing or altering the old engagement ring; or simply using it as a basis for a similar design.

Re-using old metal
It is possible to melt down old gold and reuse it in a new engagement ring. The cost often equals or exceeds the price of buying new gold so this is only something worth doing if there is a sentimental reason rather than financial. Alloy refining is a large scale process, so yellow gold cannot be re-refined to become white gold.

Combining with a new piece of jewellery
By pairing your older piece of jewellery with, for example, a specially designed wedding ring, a new lease of life can be given. In the example shown below, a contemporary wedding band was designed to fit around the very dainty antique engagement ring to give a bolder more "chunky" look.