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Nine Guides For People Who Buy Fine Jewellery Wholesale

Technical and buying guides on grading reports, lab grown against natural, karat choice by market, how a custom piece is actually made, jadeite treatment grades, Buying guides on choosing between 2D and 3D, planning a street scheme, specifying a coloured stone briefs, OEM and ODM terms, and after-sales care. Every figure comes from a specification published on this site, and where a figure does not exist the guide says so.

A matched radiant cut diamond eternity band photographed against black
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Reading A Diamond Grading Report Without Overpaying

The report tells you four things and implies a fifth. Only two of them are visible on a hand, and those are not the two most buyers pay a premium for.

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A vintage-style diamond engagement ring held in a gloved hand at BH Jewelry
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Natural Or Lab Grown Diamonds: A Supplier's Practical View

They are the same material and they behave identically at the bench. Everything that separates them is commercial, and that is exactly why the decision belongs to you rather than to your factory.

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An ornate 18K rose gold diamond band ring photographed at the BH Jewelry bench
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18K Or 14K: Which To Specify, And When Silver Is The Right Answer

Karat is a trade-off between colour, hardness and cost, and the right answer changes by market, by product type and by how the piece will be worn.

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A setter placing coloured sapphires into a ring at the BH Jewelry bench
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How A Custom Piece Goes From A Sketch To A Casting

Eight stages, each one cheaper to change than the next. Almost every expensive custom jewellery mistake is an approval given too quickly at stage two or three.

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A certified untreated Grade A jade bangle with 18K white gold fittings
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Buying Grade A Jadeite Without Getting Burned

The grade letters describe treatment, not quality. Confusing those two is how most jade money is lost.

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A blue sapphire and diamond halo engagement ring made by BH Jewelry
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Coloured Stones: How To Write A Brief A Factory Can Actually Buy Against

Naming a stone is not a specification. Sapphire, emerald and pearl each fail in a different way, and the brief has to say how you want them to fail.

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A diamond tennis bracelet inspected in gloved hands at BH Jewelry
Sourcing Guide

OEM, ODM And Private Label: What You Are Actually Buying

Three words used loosely by almost everyone, with materially different consequences for who owns the design and who carries the risk.

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A pave diamond pendant and chain photographed in gloved hands at BH Jewelry
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What To Send A Jewellery Factory With Your First Enquiry

Six things turn a vague enquiry into a quotation on the first reply instead of the fourth. Most enquiries contain two of them.

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A jadeite pendant with diamond accents laid out for inspection at BH Jewelry
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Caring For Fine Jewellery: A Crib Sheet For Retail Staff

One page of after-sales advice that prevents most of the damage customers bring back, organised by the material that is actually at risk.

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Ask A Question The Guides Do Not Answer

Technical questions are answered by email during office hours in Shenzhen.