
What personalised really means in an engagement ring
An engraved date is customisation. Personalisation is when the silhouette, the stone orientation and the band profile all answer to something about you.
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Field notes from Silux London: Persian heritage, the craft of made-to-order fine jewellery, and the stories behind the collections.

An engraved date is customisation. Personalisation is when the silhouette, the stone orientation and the band profile all answer to something about you.

Three tiny marks, struck by an office with no interest in the sale, telling you what the metal actually is. Here is how to read them.

The word covers three different processes, and the difference is not really hands versus machines. Here is what to ask a jeweller instead.

In Britain, the left. In much of Europe, the right. Neither is more correct, and the reason usually given for the left hand is not true.

Every solid Silux pendant carries a girih gallery on its reverse: geometry meant to be felt, not shown.

Inside the seven stages of a bespoke ring, from first design to hallmark, designed in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter and made only once it is ordered.

An honest, designer's breakdown of what a bespoke 18ct gold engagement ring actually costs, and where the money goes.

The Chahar Bagh, the rose of Persian poetry, and a paradise garden jewellery collection worked in solid gold.

The Persian pomegranate's ancient symbolism, and the demi-relief gold capsule that carries it, seed cluster to hidden lattice.