Buyer representation · Diamonds & coloured stones · Worldwide sourcing
You describe the stone. I go and find it.
Two decades of relationships with vendors, cutters and manufacturers — used on your behalf rather than a store's. Including the stones that retail can't locate.
How sourcing works
Searching a market instead of a display case
A retail store shows you what it owns or what its two or three suppliers have on memo. That's a narrow slice of what exists. When a client wants something specific — a particular fancy colour, an unusual cut, an exact proportion — the counter often simply can't find it, and the honest ones say so.
I work the market directly. You give me a brief: shape, size range, colour and clarity tolerance, budget ceiling, and how the stone needs to perform in the setting we've discussed. I come back with options and certificates, and then I do the part that actually matters — telling you what the paper doesn't.
Two stones can carry the same grade on the same lab's report and look completely different in person. Fluorescence, cut precision, where the inclusions sit relative to the table, how the stone behaves in restaurant light versus daylight. That judgment takes years to build and it is not on the certificate.
What I'm asked for most
Typical briefs
Brief 01
A specific fancy colour
Yellow, pink, champagne. Colour grading is subjective and the market is thin, so these often can't be found through ordinary retail channels at all.
Brief 02
Maximum stone at a fixed ceiling
Where to spend and where to save. Usually the answer involves accepting a grade nobody will ever see and refusing to compromise on cut.
Brief 03
Antique and unusual cuts
Old European, old mine, transitional. These are judged by eye and proportion, not by a modern cut grade that doesn't apply to them.
Brief 04
A second opinion on a quote
Send me the certificate and the price. I'll tell you what you're looking at and whether the number is fair. No obligation beyond the hour.
Sourced to brief
Questions
Do you charge more if I buy a bigger stone?
Lab-grown or natural?
Are GIA and IGI certificates interchangeable?
Can you review a stone another jeweler has quoted me?
Next step
Send the certificate.
Whether it's a stone you're considering or one you already own, a review costs nothing.