Savoir faire
The Atelier du Serti, jewelers, creators, stone-setters in Bordeaux, perpetuate the tradition of creating exceptional jewelry and also transformation and restoration of rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings…
Your Custom Jewelry
Your custom made jewelry is the embodiment of your dream piece. At Atelier du Serti, original creations are done step by step.
A first appointment allows your to explain your project and will guide us on the shape and style of your jewelry. Precious and fine stones, color or diamond, will are presented. The choice of stones will be entirely up to you!
Drawn models will then be presented and the choice is yours to make.
We will then work on a wax model, presenting the same characteristics of your choices (size, shape, volume), to confirm your project.
The last phase depends entirely on us. Following your confirmation, we create the jewelry, in metal, and proceed to set the stones of your choice. Ring, necklace, pendants, bracelets, brooch… This jewelry piece will be entirely yours and unique.
Claw stone-setting
Bezel stone-setting
Grain stone-setting
Rail stone-setting
Calibrated stone-setting
Stone-Setting
Stone-setting is a crucial step in the jewelry making. A stand-alone expertise, Atelier du Serti also specializes in stone-setting. Depending on the jewelry piece, the nature of the stones, we will guide you on a stone-setting style most adapted to your lifestyle. The different types of stone-settings we excel in include : Claw stone-setting :- usually used for solitaires.
- stones are encircled by metal and therefore protected.
- stones are held by small « grains » of metal.
- round-cut stones are set between two layers of metal, resembling a track.
- princess-cut stones are set in rail stone-setting.
Restoration and upkeep
At Atelier du Serti in Bordeaux, during the restoration of your jewelry (necklaces, rings, bracelets, cufflinks, earrings, etc), we verify the setting of your stones and re-polish your jewelry if necessary. Equally, as experts in stone-setting, we can offer to re-cut and re-polish your stones, whether they are fine stones (tanzanite, agate, cristal, garnet, hematite, jade, lapis-lazuli, opal, quartz, topaz, tourmaline…) or precious stones (diamond, emerald, ruby, saphire). The re-polishing is done by expert lapidaries with whom we work with.Repair
Beading
Transformation