Engraving & setting
Words inside a band
Engraving on rings, bands and gifts, plus gemstone setting and replacement.
What this covers
Two jobs that share a bench
Paris Jewellers publicly lists engraving and gemstone setting. They sit together here because they are both fine work on a piece that already exists, and because they are both usually the last step before something gets given to somebody.
Engraving is a deadline trade. It is bought for weddings, retirements, anniversaries and christenings, and it is almost always needed by a particular date. That makes turnaround the whole question — and it is the one thing this page cannot yet answer.
What engraving customers ask
- Hand engraving, machine, or both — ?
- Price per character or per piece — ?
- Turnaround, and can you do a rush — ?
- Which fonts or scripts are available — ?
- Will you engrave a piece bought elsewhere — ?
- Do you engrave anything other than jewellery — ?
A photograph of your actual engraving would be worth more here than any of this writing. Send photos of your own work.
Stone setting
Listed publicly as a service, with no further detail available. A lost stone is an emergency to the person it happened to, so this section should say plainly what you can and cannot do.
- Replacing a lost stone — can you match it — ?
- Do you supply stones, or set a customer's own — ?
- Diamonds only, or coloured stones too — ?
- Do you check and tighten settings as a service — ?
Got a date to hit?
Ring the shop with the deadline first. That is the part that decides everything else.