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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and this means love-struck couples everywhere will be looking for that perfect gift for their beloved better halves. For many, this might mean a special or even custom made piece of jewellery.

Designers understand how to work together with customers to ensure their jewellery is imagined exactly as they’d dreamed, and they have master craftspeople who make these dreams a beautiful reality. Aside from the final result though, there is a wealth of other benefits to custom jeweller that off the shelf pieces just cannot compete with, and like to share them with you today. From the limitless options available at the design stage to the heightened levels of customer experience and service at the manufacturing stage, and on to the personal attachment to your own unique piece…

Luxury brands of watches are busy launching ladies’ watch collections in the luxury, sporty and designer segments. Luxury does not always connote size and complexity; even simple elegant ones with standout styles and designs looking as if ‘made for the wrist’ make stunning statements. Women were not perceived earlier as brand-conscious marketers of wrist watches which is perhaps why most of the luxury, designer and sporty segments of watches focused on men to give the brands an iconic status.

Changing fashion trends are reflecting a ‘gender mash-up’ over the past few years and watch designs are fallout of this changing trend. The result is ‘unisex watches’, which are not only versatile but fashionable. Over the years, watches have come to represent a ‘lifestyle’ more than the actual design and values have been enhanced because of this factor.

Even best dressed people can be foxed when the time comes to buying the right watch. Just as ‘clothes maketh the man’, a watch is a distinct style statement and a complex one at that. It is therefore useful to ask yourself some questions before setting out to buy one.