Bespoke Engagement Rings in Birmingham
Commission a bespoke engagement ring in Birmingham. Talk it through at our Birmingham counter, approve the design, and collect the finished ring in Birmingham or take insured delivery. Every stone hand-set by our own benches. Natural or laboratory-grown diamonds, GIA certified.
Buying an engagement ring in the Midlands usually means choosing from what is in a case. A commission works the other way round: you set the stone, the setting, the shoulders and the budget, and the ring is made to that brief. It is not the expensive option people assume — taking the retail markup out of a case-bought ring generally buys a noticeably better stone for the same money, which is the entire reason this trade exists.
How a commission works
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Talk it through in Birmingham
The occasion, who it is for, the stone you have in mind and the budget you are working to. Message first so a diamond specialist is on the counter — that one call is the difference between a useful hour and a wasted trip.
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A design comes back to you
A CAD drawing for your approval, wherever you are. Adjust the setting, the shoulders, the carat, the metal. Nothing is cut and no stone is bought until you are happy with it.
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Hand-set by our benches
The metal is cast and every stone is set by hand by our own benches, with GIA certification on the diamonds. Two hundred years of Birmingham jewellery-making and the Hatton Garden trade behind one ring.
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Collect in Birmingham, or delivered
Collect from our Birmingham counter, or take insured, tracked white-glove delivery anywhere. Birmingham is where it starts and where it can finish.
Start from a shape, or from scratch
Most commissions begin with a diamond shape and a rough budget. If you would rather see it before you talk to anyone, the ring builder prices a setting and a stone live.
FAQS
Yes. Start at our Birmingham counter with the brief, approve the CAD design, and collect the finished ring in Birmingham. Every stone is hand-set by our own benches, and the design stage is handled remotely, so there is one visit at the start and one at the end.
Usually not, and often the reverse. A ring in a retail case carries the markup of the shop it is sitting in. Commissioning removes that, so the same budget tends to buy a better stone. What you are spending money on is the diamond rather than the display cabinet.
Allow six to eight weeks from approved design for a straightforward solitaire, and longer for anything with unusual stone sourcing or a complicated setting. Tell us the date you are working to at the first conversation — if it is tight, say so then rather than later, and we will tell you honestly whether it is possible.
Yes, and without any steering either way. A lab-grown stone buys considerably more carat and clarity for the same money; a natural stone holds value differently. Both are certified. Which is right depends on what you want from the ring, and that is a conversation rather than a policy.
Yes. Our ready-to-ship and jewellery stock can be brought to Birmingham — tell us what you would like to see and give us a day's notice. Trying settings on is genuinely useful before committing to a design, even when the final ring is a commission.
Also at the Birmingham counter
We buy and part-exchange luxury watches in Birmingham as well — everything at the Birmingham counter covers both sides.
Birmingham
Tell us the brief
The occasion, the stone you have in mind and the budget you are working to. A design comes back before anything is cut, and nothing is committed until you are happy with it.