Before & After Series An Automatically Amazing Vintage Watch Restoration We recently received this square 1960’s Vintage Zenith Automatic Watch, which arrived disassembled in desperate need of a professional restoration. This very classic Zenith watch is also coined the so-called Kennedy watch, as John F. Kennedy allegedly owned a similar …
Before & After Series Protecting Your Pearls Proper care for your pearls is very important since they are an organic gemstone that is vulnerable to acid, alkaline and extremes of humidity. Unfortunately, this diamond and pearl piece did not survive what circumstances that it had to go through, and the …
THE ULTIMATE BIRTHSTONE GUIDES Discover the gemstones of your birth month with the Ultimate Birthstone Guides! From January to December, uncover the knowledge of your modern and traditional birthstones that you probably never knew existed. The Birthstones of June: Pearl, Alexandrite, and Moonstone June is unique for having not one, …
Before & After Series A Cultured Freshwater Pearl Ring Repair On this edition of the Weekly Before & After Series, we have a 14k gold cultured freshwater pearl ring with a detached pearl. For this repair we had to: It is then wrapped up with a professional rhodium Clean & …
Before & After Series A Pearl Ring Stone Replacement & Repair On this edition of the Before & After Series, we have a Gold Plated Pearl Ring without a pearl! Additionally, when we received this ring to be serviced, most of the gold plating was worn off on this ring. …
Deep Diving Into Everything About Pearls A pearl starts as a foreign particle (a pebble, shell , or sand) in an oyster or mollusk. The particle irritates the mollusk and it secretes a substance called nacre. The nacre protects the mollusk from the particle. Over the years, layers upon layers …
