In a small workshop behind London's bustling Oxford Circus, a team of golds...
LONDON - In a small workshop behind London’s bustling Oxford Circus, a team of goldsmiths file, solder and polish the metal castings that in a few hours will become dazzling diamond rings.
“For a standard ring... we’d receive it as rough castings and it will be in components... that will go to our goldsmiths. That’s when the initial stages start of forming the metal, making sure it’s smooth, making sure it’s polished and assembled together,” Tarun Taylor, head of production, told Reuters.Some 60 items pass through the workshop each day, Taylor said. Engagement rings are 77 Diamonds’ biggest seller.
Beside hammers and chisels long used by the craftsmen, there is also more modern equipment - lasers and a microscope, which helps putting tiny diamonds on bands.
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