What we are asked for.

A description of the kinds of work that come through the door, written without naming a single client or showing a single commissioned piece.

• The armorial signet

  A crest or full achievement cut intaglio into a gold bezel, usually to replace a ring worn smooth over two or three generations. The most demanding thing we do.

• The caseback

  A short private inscription or an ornamental panel on a watch back, most often marking a retirement, an anniversary or a handover between generations.

• The recut

  An heirloom whose ornament has gone soft. Half the work is deciding how little to touch, and that conversation takes longer than the cutting.

• The cypher change

  A monogram that must become a different monogram, done by let-in panel so the original surrounding work survives intact.

• The accession run

  Several hundred objects marked to a written institutional specification, often on the institution's own premises under its supervision.

• The trade job

  Work taken on behalf of a jeweller, watchmaker or gunmaker for their own client, invoiced to the trade and never discussed with the end client.

• Jewellers

  White-label hand and laser work on your client's pieces. We do not contact your client, and we do not appear on your invoice unless you want us to.

• Watchmakers

  Movement and case work on dismounted parts, returned in the same tray, coordinated to your service schedule.

• Gunmakers

  Action, furniture and fitting work in the English and Continental idioms, arranged through you rather than the end client.

• Auction houses and dealers

  Condition assessment of existing engraving, restoration advice, and covert marking for consigned property.

• Institutions

  Accession and security marking to your written specification, on site or in studio, with location records supplied to your registrar.

• What the object is, and what it is made of
• What the engraving is for, and who will see it
• How long the piece must survive in use
• Whether it must match existing work on the same object
• Any deadline, and whether it is real
• Who referred you