Gold that lasts.Gld thatlasts.

Family gold doesn’t melt away. It melts into something new.

A box of gold that nobody wears: almost everyone has one. This is how it becomes something you wear every day again.

1. 6,4 g

   Weighing

   Your old gold goes on the scales while you sit there. Grandma’s ring, a broken chain, a single earring: it all counts. You get the weight on paper.

2. 585

   Testing

   On the touchstone I see how much gold is in it. Usually it’s 14 carat, sometimes 18. I carefully remove any stones first. You get them back, or we set them again.

3. ± 900 °C

   Melting

   In the crucible, under the torch flame, everything becomes one again. The gold glows orange and pulls together into a shining drop.

4. 1 bar

   Casting and rolling

   I pour the gold into a bar mould. Then I roll and draw it until it’s exactly as thick as the design needs.

5. size 54

   Forging

   I bend the bar round the ring mandrel. I solder the seam, hammer the ring to size and file, sand and polish until it shines.

6. GV · 585

   Marking

   Inside I strike my hallmark: the bullfinch and the fineness. That way everyone knows, even fifty years from now, where this ring was made.