Behind the scenes

Students from the Chelsea Academy visit our London jewelry workshop

Alice, one of our jewellers setting a diamond into one of our designs Last Tuesday we had a school visit from the Chelsea Academy, an outstanding Academy i

Chelsea Academy students watching one of their group look through a microscope at a jeweller's bench
Students from the Chelsea Academy visit our London jewelry workshop

Alice, one of our jewellers setting a diamond into one of our designs

Last Tuesday we had a school visit from the Chelsea Academy, an outstanding Academy in South West London, as part of the Walpole’s Luxury in the Making Schools Programme. We are enthusiastic supporters of anything that gets our schoolchildren interested in the art of making things. We do love passing our knowledge on and if we can enthuse some school children and encourage them to get involved in our industry then even better.

Students from the Chelsea Academy visit our London jewelry workshop

Chelsea Academy visit British jeweller Stephen Einhorn as part of the Walpole’s Luxury in the Making Schools Programme.

We desperately need skilled craftspeople in this country and the only way we are going to have them is if we pass our skills on. We gave them a small overview of our company. Explained that running a business was all about raising your profile so that people know about you, not just making things (the bit we like best) and using social media.

Students from the Chelsea Academy visit our London jewelry workshop

Students from the Chelsea Academy learning about making jewellery

We then moved into the workshop where our workshop manager Gerry showed the students how to make a simple ring by shaping a bit of silver wire, then soldering it and polishing it with a bit of annealing along the way. After that, Alice one of our skilled jewellers set a diamond in a silver heart for them, so they could see how we set stones. The trouble is our jewellers always make it look so easy… The students all had a turn looking through her microscope. Finally, we engraved something for them with their school name on it. We really enjoyed their visit and hope they got something out of it too.

The heartbreak heart: a hand-painted plaster heart broken open to reach the piece inside

The giving

A heart they have to break

Every piece arrives in a Stephen Einhorn box. For the ones that should be remembered, we wrap the piece in soft cloth and seal it inside a plaster heart, hand painted in the colour you choose. To reach what is inside, they have to crack it open.

See the heartbreak heart
A jeweller at the bench in our London workshop

Personalised

Engraved by hand

Almost everything we make can be engraved by hand in our workshop: initials on the face of a signet, a date inside a ring, a line only they will understand. Engraved pieces cannot be returned, so if you are unsure of the size, order it plain and we will engrave it afterwards.

See engraving styles

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