Unexpectedly, I mistakenly entered the jewelry industry and received a personal tailor's order in the jewelry factory. To my surprise, I found that the jewelry in private order is much cheaper than that in jewelry store. Obviously, the service in private customization is more in place, more in line with customers' ideas and budgets, and it is one-to-one service. You can change the hand ring, engrave the commemorative text pattern, make the style that customers want, or change the model and clean and renovate it later. ...
None of this counts. The key is that it is still cheap. I was shocked at that time, how could it be ~ I learned later that this is because shopping malls are also purchased from factories, and the financial pressure, shopping mall points, taxes, rent, wages and so on must be included in the cost.
Relatively speaking, the direct cost of the factory will be lower than that of the shopping mall. Therefore, while maintaining a reasonable profit, although private tailors have more personality than shopping malls to buy unified goods, they are cheaper than shopping malls!
I used to think that I couldn't even think about wearing 1 carat diamonds when I got married. A diamond ring of 1 carat, Chow Tai Fook is at least about 65,438+10,000, which makes me feel distressed when I think about it ... Now I have done this industry, and the factory is customized, and ordinary 20,000-30,000 carats can be used. It is estimated that in Hong Kong, 20,000-30,000 can only buy 50 cents. !
So getting married now, carat diamond ring is no longer a dream! !
Mainly want 1 carat, or 2 carats, the choice of high quality or ordinary quality! !
Well, I'm an expert in personal custom jewelry around you. Welcome to have any jewelry questions and discuss them together!
This is your own exclusive customized model, which will be very special and unique. Specifically, there will be the following steps.
The first step in the birth of high-end jewelry: the choice of raw materials
The choice of gems is very important. If it is customized, it may be necessary to design jewelry styles according to gems. In other words, you already have a gem before you decide what to do with it. The size, shape and color of gems will have an impact on the design of jewelry.
Gems that exceed the width of fingers are not suitable for making rings. Designing a necklace or a brooch is a good choice. Square, triangular or rectangular gemstones are suitable for tough line design, while water-drop shaped, round or oval gemstones are suitable for streamlined design. The color of precious stones determines the material of precious metals, and the colors of platinum, gold and k gold are different.
The Birth of High-grade Jewelry Step 2: Jewelry Design
After determining the gems and precious metals, we will begin to design and draw sketches. The reason why those big-name jewelry are expensive has a lot to do with design, so this is also a very important step. The designer will first draw a sketch of the new work on paper and finish the design with pencil and gouache. This process takes as little as a few days and a half months, and as many as a few months to finalize the design.
Now there are also customized models in many places. You can tell your demands and ask them to help you design, so that you will have a unique piece of jewelry of your own.
The third step of the birth of high-end jewelry: making models from plates
The words on the paper are all fake, and then they will be true. In order to reflect the modeling details as truly as possible, craftsmen will carve and polish the design sketches with soft wax or hard wax to feel the appearance of jewelry more intuitively. Then, the holes needed for gem inlaying are dug in the model, and then the placement position of gems is tested by the model to get the best inlaying position, and the model is colored to feel the color sense emitted by the arrangement of gems.
The fourth step of the birth of high-end jewelry: diamond cutting and gem carving
Jade is rough and abrasive, and rough diamonds are as dull as precious stones. Only through the precise design and ingenious carving of well-trained masters can the veil of diamonds and precious stones be unveiled. Jewelers will find the best cutting point by calculating the refractive index and color calculation rate to ensure the most perfect light.
The Birth of High-end Jewelry Step 5: Metal Casting
Generally, artisans will use silver materials with good ductility to set the initial embryo, which is helpful for gem setting and measuring the setting diameter. Then the carving of the metal floor is actually completed, and the inlaid holes are carved.
If they make more complex designs, they will try to make important parts of them first to test the touch and fluency. Then use a wax gem mold, try to set it in the designed setting, and observe the color matching.
The birth of high-end jewelry Step 6: Hold the mold
The cast jewelry will have a nozzle (that is, the connecting part), and the mold is clamped to trim the jewelry casting. Make the surface of jewelry smooth, and finally reach the shape when lifting the plate. It is necessary to master metalworking techniques such as sawing, filing and welding when holding the mold.
The Birth of High-end Jewelry Step 7: Hand-inlaid gems
After completing the above steps, you can hand it over to a professional stone setting technician, and use a special setting tool to fix the gem on the jewelry, so that the jewelry is exactly the same as the drawing in strict accordance with the designer's requirements.
The setting method will vary according to different gems, such as Toona sinensis setting, pointed setting, dense setting or inlay. Whether it is as big as a goose egg or as small as a grain of rice, it is set by hand, so it is a very time-consuming process, which tests the jeweler's eyesight, hand strength and holding ability, because these precious gems may be damaged in the setting process once they are pressed improperly.
The Birth of High-grade Jewelry Step 8: Polishing and Electroplating Gold
Polishing is a process to make the metal surface bright, including machine polishing and manual polishing, both of which are essential processes in jewelry making. Some jewels need gold plating to make their surfaces smoother!
The Birth of High-end Jewelry Step 9: Final Quality Inspection
Jewelry made by various complicated processes must go through the final quality inspection. If it is unqualified, it will be returned to the previous process for re-production.