Are your precious diamonds, gems and jewellery looking a bit sad?

With our Refreshing Ring Rejuvenation not only will we have your rings and jewellery looking fresh and sparkling, just like they did when they were new, but you will feel better and refreshed as well!

How do I know that my diamonds, gems and jewellery is looking tired and worn out? This is a great question and one that I wish more people would ask… Essentially what you need to look for are the following:-

  • Worn out looking claws – What this means is that the gold or platinum is no longer holding as much of your diamond or gemstone in the setting as it once did. The claw will look and feel particularly rounded and will not have the same crispness or strength that it did.
  • Dull sparkle from your diamonds or gemstones – Diamonds in particular have an inherent “Fire and Brilliance” about them, so do coloured gemstones but it is slightly different in their case. Generally speaking this means that you have a build up of dirt and grim in and around your diamonds and gems, a little like having a build up of plaque on your teeth they never really look the way the should.
  • Scratches and marks on the gold or platinum -These are the easiest to see and spot on your jewellery and they are the most common form of damage that a piece of jewellery will take, they are also the easiest way to damage your jewellery too, a really deep scratch can and often will remove some of the gold or platinum out of either your ring or setting. These scratches and marks can take a bit of work to remove as they can potentially be quite deep into the precious metal.
  • Anything that looks out of place or wrong – When new, a piece of jewellery is precise and symmetrical, in every aspect so when something looks out of place or not right, it is generally a really good indication of exactly that.

These points are tell tale signs that your jewellery needs some work or at the very least some attention. With our Refreshing Ring Rejuvenation we will pay particular attention to making sure that your jewellery looks like brand new again!

What I will personally do for you is this -

  1. take out all the scratches and marks from the metal
  2. check all the settings to make sure they are secure and structural
  3. clean the settings and jewellery of any dirt and grim that can build up over time
  4. re-buff the jewellery so that it is all polished and looking better than new again
  5. if your jewellery has white gold in it I will re-rhodium plate the piece of jewellery for you (this is a super special finishing touch that really adds to the look and feel of your jewellery!)

Once these 5 steps have been taken and we are happy with the finished piece, I will be in touch for you to collect your jewellery. Upon collection you will notice a change, you will see a change and you will feel a change more importantly. You will feel refreshed and rejuvenated too, especially when you begin to remember all the wonderful and special memories you have attached to your jewellery!

Special moments in your life, getting engaged, getting married, having your kid/s, graduating, anniversaries, major celebrations… all these moments will come back to you which will make you feel and experience them all over again! You will feel alive and vibrant, refreshed and rejuvenated!

Or you could let your life’s memories fade, get dull and start looking like they were such a long time ago… from another place… or you could loose them all together if proper care is not taken… just like a bad nightmare.

Take the 1 minute now to check and see if your jewellery is looking a bit “how you doing” and if so take action NOW and get that rejuvenated and refreshed feeling back again.

We spend the lions share of our time designing and handcrafting new jewellery for clients, so we unfortunately have to limit the amount of Refreshing Ring Rejuvenations that we can do per month to 15. I would suggest that you book yours now by visiting our website so that you can take advantage of this wonderful service.

Your Private Jeweller

Sam Kritsotakis

Eskae Jeweller

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Diamonds that will blow you away!

A fancy vivid blue, internally flawless, cushion-shaped diamond weighing 7.03 carats sold for a record US$9,488,754 at Sotheby’s ‘Magnificent Jewels’ auction in Geneva.

Blue Diamond sells for US$9M

Blue Diamond sells for US$9.5M

This is a pic of the Blue Diamond in question, these diamonds are on a par with Pink Diamonds and will generally fetch prices at an equivalent or even greater level than their Pink counterparts.

This beauty of a diamond was cut from an original piece of rough weighing 26.58ct discovered at Petra Diamonds’ Cullinan diamond mine last year. The diamond has been named the ‘Star of Josephine’ by the diamonds new owner, a property investor from Hong Kong according to Forbes Magazine he is the 5th richest man in Hong Kong

You can read the full article by clicking on this Blue Diamond link.

Sam Kritsotakis

Eskae Jeweller

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This is the first of our development videos, all of the videos have been taken throughout the different stages of the construction. You will notice the changes and the days that we really achieved some great results with a lot of work being done in and around how economically we used the space.

Because the space is limited to 24m2 (before the mezzanine) we had to make sure that not only were we able to fit in everything we need to use but also to allow room between the equipment, along with some new and improved equipment which enables us to deliver a more efficient and better service to you. We also needed to allow space for us to move around without being cramped for work space, and feeling like the walls are closing in around us.

It is a very exciting and demanding thing to do, I am sure that if you have undertaken to build or renovate a house you will have a very good idea of what it is I am talking about and is not something that is undertaken lightly in hindsight… however it is very rewarding to now see the results after looking back to create this video for you to view.


As you can see from the video we literally started with an empty shell of a place, unfortunately I didnt have the video camera ready to get some before shots of when we moved the safe from the back left corner to where you see it now, that was a mamoth task… it took 3 of us and a pallet jack half a day to go the span of about 4 metres, which I know sounds crazy, but it is very true!

All in the midst of the construction I had two metal pins removed from my right big toe, which I broke in 5 places,, while helping a friend move some furniture around his house… unbelievable, but if it was going to happen it was always going to happen while I was in the beginning or middle of the construction of our new jewellery studio! I was in hospital between the time the first section of the video and the time the mezzanine arrived, a very frustrating time that was. It also meant having to be ready for the mezzanine before I went in to hospital for the removal of the pins.

My toe is fine now, thanks for asking, but I still shake my head every time I think about it.

The mezzanine level, as you have seen is not the most difficult thing to construct because it was all pre-fabricated offsite then brought in to the studio and assembled there. However it did take considerably longer time to build and assemble than all of us thought! We started the day at 8am and I didn’t leave the studio untill 11pm… but I am sure you will agree with me when I say that the result speaks for itself.

This is the end of the first stage, it took us about 2 weeks to get to this stage, A LOT of cleaning, demolishing and going to the tip to dispose of everything. I can still remember thinking that we have SOOOOO much work to do – I was right – but looking back at this video collection I was looking at what was needing to be done as opposed to what i was creating…

Sam Kritsotakis

Eskae Jeweller


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