The workshop

Two goldsmiths, one bench

Every ring we sell is made here on Saddler's Row, behind a glass wall in the showroom, by the two of us.

A goldsmith's walnut bench at dusk with files and pliers in a rack, a torch and a ring mandrel under a bench lamp, a window with blue evening light — The bench, in the window

We met at the bench of an old firm in the Jewellery Quarter, where Isla set stones and Tobias made the rings they went into. In 2014 we took the old saddler's shop on Saddler's Row, put the bench in the window and the showroom round it. Ten years and more than a thousand rings later, we still melt our own metal, and still make every piece ourselves.

The makers

Isla Wren
Designer and stone setter
Draws every commission with you at the showroom table, chooses the stones and sets them under the microscope. Trained at the School of Jewellery; twelve years as a setter.
Tobias Vale
Goldsmith
Melts, forges, solders and polishes. Runs the wedding band days, when couples make each other's rings at the bench. Apprenticed in the Jewellery Quarter in 2006.

What we stand by

Recycled metal
All our platinum and gold is recycled, refined in Britain. Fairmined gold on request.
Stones we can trace
Natural diamonds with a paper trail to the mine; coloured stones from dealers we've met; lab-grown stones from named growers.
Hallmarked, always
Every piece over the legal weight goes to the Assay Office and comes back with its hallmark and our mark.
Made here
No catalogue castings, no outsourced settings. If we can't make it at our bench, we tell you.

A setter's hands pushing a platinum claw over a diamond with a fine steel pusher against a wooden bench pin, under a bright lamp — Setting under the microscope

A small showroom in the evening with lit glass cases in dark walnut cabinets, rings on blue velvet trays and a consultation table by the window — The showroom

The makers

Isla Wren

Tobias Vale

What we stand by

Recycled metal

Stones we can trace

Hallmarked, always

Made here