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Guides, stories, and answers about lab-grown diamonds, moissanite, and fine jewellery β written by our atelier.
How to Tell a Jeweller Your Budget
A budget is a design constraint, not a negotiating position. Why withholding it quietly costs you construction, and the one question that...
Importing Jewellery: What Changes From Country to Country
Duty, hallmarking, return rights and sizing compared across twelve markets, with links to each full guide β and the four questions to...
Eight Mistakes People Make Buying a Cushion Cut
The cushion is the least standardised shape in use, and almost every cushion regret comes from a variable the buyer never knew...
Why Two Cushion Cuts With the Same 4Cs Cost Different Money
On no other shape does the certificate tell you so little about the price. Faceting, depth and halo melee explain most cushion...
Buying Moissanite and Lab Grown Diamond Jewellery in Switzerland
Switzerland is not in the EU, so no 14-day withdrawal right applies. Duty is charged by weight rather than value, and precious...
Buying Moissanite and Lab Grown Diamond Jewellery in Japan
Consumption tax and duty, a ring sizing scale unlike any other, voluntary hallmarking, and why platinum expectations differ here from Western markets.
How to Brief a Custom Jewelry Order
Custom work goes wrong when the buyer describes a feeling and the workshop needs a measurement. The six details to give in...
Eight Mistakes People Make Buying an Emerald Cut
The emerald cut is the shape that punishes the standard diamond-buying advice hardest. Eight errors account for nearly every emerald regret we...
Why Two Emerald Cuts With the Same 4Cs Cost Different Money
Same carat, same colour, same clarity, same certificate β and a real gap in price. On a step cut the difference is...
Buying Moissanite and Lab Grown Diamond Jewellery in New Zealand
New Zealand's import threshold is calculated on revenue owed rather than goods value, GST can be charged twice if you're not careful,...
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