Not a gallery of finished pieces. The brief, the design gate, the three sampling rounds and the checks that decided what actually shipped — including the stage most factories leave out of the story.
Necklace, earrings, ring and bracelet, built around a single stone family for a retailer selling into a market where a suite is worn as one look. Fourteen days from the confirmed drawing to the box leaving the bench, across three sampling rounds.
A retailer sent reference images for a four-piece suite — necklace, earrings, ring and bracelet — built around one stone family. The intent was a set that photographs as a set, not four pieces that happen to match.
Before CAD was released the drawing went through structural, durability and manufacturability review. Two people sign it off: the designer, and the technical engineer who has to make it.
The four pieces come back as samples. This is where suites usually fail — each piece can be correct on its own and still not sit together as a family.
The third sample became the production standard. Nobody signs a bulk run on a drawing that has not been held in the hand.
Six checkpoints from incoming silver to the sealed carton, then photographed and released. Fourteen days from the confirmed drawing to the box leaving the bench.
What the file does not show: the rounds that were rejected. A sampling round only counts when the piece is worn and photographed, not when it passes on the table.
A dangle earring is bought for how it moves and returned for how it feels. Three decisions settle both, and none of them can be judged from a rendering.
A dangle is not one piece of metal. It is a chain of small articulations, and the allowance at each one decides the piece: too tight and it hangs like a pendant, too loose and it turns over, catches hair and reads cheap from the side.
Weight has to sit where the ear can carry it. The same drop on a thinner post becomes a two-hour earring, and the buyer finds that out on the second wear, not on the sample table.
Layering comes from alternation — stone, metal, stone — and from how the silhouette changes as the piece moves. That is a design decision, but it is settled with engineering: which segment carries the mass, and which one is free to swing.
These are the checks that can be shown on a bench. Anything a supplier tells you about comfort that was not tested on a finished piece is a claim, not a measurement.
A customer's idea becomes a CAD file, and that file has to survive three reviews before anyone spends money on tooling. Two people sign each one — the designer, and the technical engineer who has to make it.
Wall thickness at the thinnest point, how the stone seat is cut, whether a joint has enough metal around it. A drawing that looks right and cannot carry its own stone is rejected here, not at sampling.
What catches on a sleeve, what fatigues at a clasp, what a plated surface has to survive. Judged against the market it is going to, because a piece sold for daily wear and a piece sold for one evening are not built to the same margin.
Can it be cast, set, polished and plated inside tolerance, in the order the bench actually works. This is where a beautiful CAD file turns into a cost per piece.
Filmed on the floor, not staged. Each one answers a question a buyer cannot settle from a product photo.
Structural feedback before you commit to tooling, a sampled piece before you commit to bulk, and NDA on request. Custom from 10 pieces per style — 30 where the piece is multi-stone.
Send your design, size and quantity — factory quote back within 24 hours. Reference: General enquiry