Jewellery Repairs and Remodelling
Serendipity Diamonds provides a wide range of jewellery repair services including jewellery remodelling. We routinely repair items of jewellery made in Silver, Gold and Platinum. Our Isle of Wight showroom features a dedicated workshop for many repairs, with specialist repairs carried out in our fully equipped workshop located in Birmingham's historic Jewellery Quarter.
Repair services available at Serendipity Diamonds
Our repairs include a wide range of services across most items of jewellery with the exception of watch repairs. Typical types of repair include the following.
- Resizing rings that no longer fit
- Reshaping or repairing damaged rings
- Restoring rings cut from the finger after emergency removals
- Resetting missing gemstones and diamonds
- Replacing missing diamonds and re-tipping badly worn claws
- Extending chain lengths or repairing some types of chain
- Adding new, worn, chain-ends or rebuilding the gold on existing chain ends
- Adding larger catches to necklaces including magnetic clasps for arthritic clients
- Fitting replacement catches worn or broken over time
- Refinishing rings by re-polishing, followed by Rhodium Plating for White Gold
- Re-fitting pearls detached from earring designs
- Fitting stronger, more secure chains to necklaces
- Cleaning heavily tarnished items of Silver jewellery
Jewellery Remodelling at Serendipity Diamonds
As part of our work, we routinely remodel items of jewellery, transforming existing items into brand new designs. Some of our service re-use existing Gold or Platinum in the new item, or offset the cost of the new item with the old Gold or Platinum. A few examples of our work include the following remodelling services. Some of our work involves what some would describe as "melt and make" services where we reuse existing metal and melt it to make new jewellery designs.
- Remounting existing gemstones and diamonds from old jewellery designs
- Modernising old jewellery into newer contemporary designs
- Unsetting existing diamonds to add into one of our existing or bespoke designs
- Transforming a ring setting into a pendant with the addition of a loop and chain
- Melting down old wedding rings with sentimental value to create new jewellery designs
- Mixing different types of Gold to use in a new design
- Remaking a worn, damaged or lost ring in the original jewellery design
As part of our service, we recommend clients book an appointment in our mezzanine to discuss any complex remodelling work. We provide all the guidance needed on a no-obligation basis and offer a full design service as part of our work.
Remounting a diamond into a new bespoke ring design
Many of our clients approach us to create either new versions of an existing ring, or to re-design an item of jewellery to house their existing diamond. Regardless of the diamond or gemstone size, we can create a brand new design. Our work often involves the creation of a more elaborate style or a simplified style with a refined build quality around the stone.
For this ring remodelling commission, we remounted an existing 4-carat natural diamond to provide a design to justify the beauty of the diamond. The new ring features a swirling 6 claw setting in Platinum with talon claws to showcase the original diamond. Existing gemstones from the original ring were discounted owing to wear and damage received over time.