Bespoke & custom
Something that exists only once
Most of our commissions start as a screenshot, a sketch on a napkin, or a ring in a velvet box that belonged to someone else. From there it is drawing, CAD, wax, stone selection and the bench — four to six weeks, and you see every stage.
Anchor commission
The Torah scroll pendant
The piece we point to when a client asks what is actually possible. A miniature Torah scroll in gold, built as a hollow openwork case with turned finials, a menorah panel pierced by hand, and a diamond Star of David crowning the top — with diamonds carried around both scroll caps.
Every element was drawn, cast and set for one client. It cannot be reordered from a catalog: the same brief can be built again, but it is a new commission each time, priced from the drawing.
Gold karat, gold weight, diamond count and total carat weight are all on the workshop paperwork rather than published here — we quote from the record, not from memory.
The lettering and the number on this pendant are blurred at the owner’s request. It is a finished commission for a named client, and their word is theirs rather than ours to publish — the diamond work, the drawing and the proportions are untouched.
Personalized commissions
A name, a date or a number — set in diamonds
The most-requested commission in the workshop is also the hardest to do well: a word made out of stones. Not engraved, not stamped — drawn as letterforms and pavé-set, so it reads as jewelry rather than as text on metal.
The pendant here is a finished client piece: an infinity loop in pavé, carrying a word in pavé-set letters and a number in baguettes. Two cuts, deliberately — round stones for the letters and step cuts for the digits — so the two halves of the message stay legible instead of blurring into one line of light. What that word and that number actually are stays with the client, which is why they are blurred here.
- Names and initials. A partner’s name, a child’s name, a set of initials, in English or Hebrew letterform.
- Numbers that mean something. A jersey number, an anniversary, a date of birth, an address — in baguettes, brilliants or a mix.
- Words, not just names. A single word from a vow, a nickname nobody else uses, a team, a city.
- Drawn to read. We letter-space and weight each character to the scale of the piece, and we will tell you before you commit if a word is too long to stay legible at pendant size.
Priced from the drawing: character count, gold weight and stone count decide the figure, so no two quotes match. Specifications and pricing on request.
The design journey
Four steps, no surprises
You approve the drawing before the stone is bought, and the stone before anything is set. Nothing moves forward without your yes.
Brief
A 15-minute call to gather references, budget, finger size and the story behind the piece. We tell you plainly what your budget buys.
Drawing & CAD
Hand sketches first, then a photoreal CAD rendering from three angles. Revisions are included until it is right.
Stone selection
Three to five certified diamonds sourced at wholesale to fit the design, with reports and videos side by side.
Bench & delivery
Cast, hand-set and finished by New York bench jewelers, independently appraised, then delivered insured.
Setting construction
What you are actually paying the bench for
Two rings can hold the same certified stone and differ by thousands. The difference is almost never the diamond — it is the twenty hours of setting work you only see in profile. Below is one ring from current inventory, photographed three ways, because no single frame shows you all three things worth paying for.
Diamonds set into the prongs themselves
Each bead has to hold a stone without weakening the metal holding the center. It is slow, it is done under a microscope, and it cannot be faked in a casting — which makes a pavé basket the single most reliable indicator of bench quality on a solitaire.
Specifications on request
A collar of light nobody else sees
Set pavé into the basket under the center stone and, seen from above, it reads as a hidden halo — a collar of light beneath the diamond that is invisible from the face and belongs to the wearer alone. It is the same construction as card one, photographed from a different angle, and it is the first thing a cheap copy leaves out.
Specifications on request
Three rows, tapering toward the head
Micropavé means stones under about 1.2 mm, bead-set by hand in rows that have to stay perfectly straight around a curve. Taper the shank as it approaches the head and the center stone reads larger — a proportion trick, executed in metal.
Specifications on request
How to use this when you brief us
Tell us which of the three details you want and the quote changes shape immediately: a pavé basket adds real bench hours; a six-prong head trades a little spread for security; a three-row shank adds stones and a yearly prong check. None of it is necessary, all of it is visible, and you should know which you are buying before the metal is poured. The ring photographed above is listed in the collection — or ask us to walk you through all three.
Recent commissions
Made once, for one person
Our own work, our own photographs. Each began as a conversation, not a catalog number — so each is quoted from its drawing rather than priced on a shelf.
Rose gold floral cluster earrings
Petal clusters built up in rose gold and set on the ear rather than dropped from it, so the outline stays flat against the lobe. Commissioned as a pair, matched cluster for cluster.
Specifications on request
Rope-circle Star of David, bezel diamond
A woven star suspended inside a twisted rope circle with a single bezel-set diamond — designed to survive being worn every day, not kept in a drawer.
Specifications on request
Toi et moi, two round brilliants
Two stones set shoulder to shoulder on a slim bypass band — no halo, no shoulder pavé, nothing to distract from the pair.
Specifications on request
Wide princess-cut band, pavé rails
A run of princess cuts held between two pavé edges, built wide enough to wear alone on the right hand.
Specifications on request
Pear halo with a diamond shank
Hand-set halo around a pear center, pavé carried down the shank so the ring reads as one continuous line on the finger.
Specifications on request
Round diamond line bracelet
Four-prong links matched stone for stone and sized to the wrist — the most-repeated commission after engagement rings.
Specifications on request
Design inquiry
Tell us what you are picturing
Rough ideas are welcome — most clients start with “something like this, but…”. You will hear back within one business day.
Working from an heirloom?
Bring the old piece. We can re-polish, re-cut or reset existing stones, and credit any metal or diamonds we do not use against your commission.
Your brief is with us
You will hear back from info@diamondconciergenj.com within one business day, usually with two or three directions to react to.
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New arrivals, client reveals and pieces leaving the bench — posted from the diamond district most weeks.
