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Making a Ring Fit

  • 18-06-2010 7:35pm
    #1
    pprendeville
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭


    Got an antique Diamond on the twist ring, white gold. Worth a nice bit or so I'm told. Based in Dublin and been to a few jewellers to get it valued. They all seem to charge around the same price (30-50 plus 1% of value). Only prob is it take 2 weeks to do it.

    What I'm afraid of is that during that time, stones could be switched. Heard stories of this happening. Are jewellers trustworthy.

    More important than the valuation I suppose is the fact that it doesn't fit very well on my wife's finger. Need to get some sort of attachment added to it to make it fit. Don't want to alter the ring in any way. Not up to speed on what kind of attachments are used or anything like that. Again, it seems it takes a bit of time to do this (5 working days). Can anyone recommend a reputable jeweller to do the job in Dublin? called into Brereton's on Capel St. today and they'll do it for €35 I think.


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  • #2
    pprendeville
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭pprendeville


    ya please move. cheers


  • #3
    Wibbs
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    Thread moved.

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  • #4
    Giselle
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    Any jeweller with a good reputation to uphold would be extremely unlikely to fiddle the stones. I think Beretons is a chain, so I would think they would be pretty reliable.

    If its really valuable I'd go somewhere like Weirs, where their rep is everything and any bad publicity would be a disaster.

    I don't know if you can get an attachment, but having a ring sized doesn't devalue it.


  • #5
    pprendeville
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭pprendeville


    what exactly do they do when they size the ring?


  • #6
    ted1
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    whats with the cheeky 1% of value??? surly to refit a ring takes the same proces..


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  • #7
    pprendeville
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭pprendeville


    I suppose if they think you can afford to buy an expensive ring or are in the possession of one, they want to get a slice of your fortune. Typical of any business I guess.


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