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Auverre / The atelier

14 Rue Chapon — since 1994

Nine people, one bench each, and no shortcuts we could live with

Auverre has never grown past nine jewellers, because the tenth would have meant someone stopped setting stones and started managing. Everything you can buy from us was made by one of those nine, in a first-floor workshop in the third arrondissement, above a shop that has been a jeweller's since 1911.

A loose emerald under a jeweller's loupe beside steel tweezers on the Auverre grading bench
Rue Chapon — grading bench

Auverre started because Hélène Auverre could not get a stone reset properly. She had inherited an emerald from her grandmother, took it to four houses on the Rue de la Paix, and was told four different things about what it was. The fourth quoted her a price without ever putting it under a loupe in front of her.

She trained for six years, took the bench above the old shop on Rue Chapon in 1994, and set the emerald herself. It is still on her hand. The rule she wrote on the wall that year has not changed: if you cannot tell the client where it came from, do not sell it to them.

That rule is why we do not stock plated jewellery, why every stone above 0.30 ct arrives with a lab report and a named mine, and why the jeweller who sets your piece strikes their own initials inside the band. If something goes wrong with it in thirty years, you will know whose bench to bring it back to. Most of them are still here.

We release two collections a year and discontinue nothing. A piece stays in the book so it can be remade, resized, or matched decades on — which is the only definition of fine jewellery we find useful.

  • 1994First bench taken above the old shop on Rue Chapon, third arrondissement
  • 9Jewellers, the number we have kept for thirty-two years
  • 1,400+Pieces made to order in the last twelve months
  • 100%Solid 18k. We have never sold a plated piece and never will
  • 4.9Average from 1,206 verified purchases — the one-stars are published too

Drawing to hallmark

How a piece actually gets made

Six stages, in this order, every time. A halo ring takes four days at the setting bench alone — the whole sequence runs six to eight weeks.

  1. 01

    Drawing

    Hand-drawn at scale, then again at size, because a shank that looks elegant at 4× can look like rope on a finger. You see both before we go further.

  2. 02

    Stone selection

    We buy loose and grade in front of you, under the loupe, with the report open. If the stone we find is better value one grade down, we will say so and put the difference into the setting.

  3. 03

    Wax and casting

    A 3D-printed wax goes on your finger before any metal is cut. Change it as many times as you need — the wax costs us almost nothing and a recast costs everyone weeks.

  4. 04

    Setting

    One jeweller, start to finish. Each bead on a halo is raised and burnished by hand under a microscope. This is the four days, and it is not a stage we hurry.

  5. 05

    Finishing

    Filed, emery-papered through four grades, then polished on rouge. The inside of the band gets the same attention as the outside, which is where most houses stop.

  6. 06

    Hallmark and dispatch

    Struck with the French eagle's-head mark and the jeweller's own punch, insured, boxed, and sent with the lab report issued in your name.

Four loose London-blue topaz stones graded on the Auverre bench before setting
Loose, graded, and named before setting

What a piece is actually made of

We will tell you where every gram came from

Plated jewellery wears through in a year. Ours does not, because there is nothing to wear through — the gold goes all the way down. Every stone above 0.30 ct arrives with a lab report and a mine of origin, and we will read it to you.

  • Gold Solid 18k, 75% fineAlloyed in-house from recycled bullion. Struck with the French eagle's-head hallmark and our jeweller's punch.
  • Diamonds Traceable, natural, GIA-gradedD–G colour, VVS–VS1 clarity. Kimberley-certified with a named cutting house in Antwerp.
  • Coloured stones Single-origin, untreatedZambian emerald, Montana sapphire, Sri Lankan spinel. No heat, no fill, no filler language.
  • Setting Hand-set, one jeweller per pieceNine people in Paris. A halo takes four days. The initials inside the band are theirs, not ours.

Care & warranty

What we will do for it, and for how long

Every service below is free for as long as you own the piece — not for two years, not for the first owner only. Bring it in or post it with the prepaid label from your box.

Included with every Auverre piece
Service What happens Turnaround Cost
Resizing Two sizes either way, as many times as your hands change. Beyond two sizes we remake the shank at cost. 10 working days Free, for life
Annual repolish Ultrasonic clean, claws re-tipped where worn, rouge polish. Book it or we will write to remind you. 5 working days Free, yearly
Stone tightening Every setting checked under the microscope and re-burnished. Do this yearly and stones do not fall out. 5 working days Free, for life
Chain & clasp repair Broken links re-soldered in matching 18k, clasps replaced like-for-like. 10 working days Free, for life
Stone replacement If a stone is lost, we match it to the original report. Covered free in the first two years; at our cost price after. 3–6 weeks Free for 2 years
Valuation for insurance Written valuation at current replacement value, on our letterhead, accepted by every French insurer we have met. 7 working days €60
Trade-in Return any Auverre piece toward a new one at 70% of what you paid, whenever you like. Same day, in person 70% credit
Returns Sixty days from delivery, unworn, in the box. Bespoke commissions are excluded once the wax is approved. Refunded in 5 days Free return label
  • Take it off for chlorine Pools and hot tubs attack the alloy, not the gold. A week of daily swimming will dull a polish it takes us an hour to bring back.
  • Perfume first, jewellery second Alcohol and oils film over a stone and take the brilliance with them. Let scent dry before the chain goes on.
  • Store it flat and separate Diamonds scratch gold, and gold scratches gold. The pouch in your box is there for a reason — one piece per pouch.

Come to the bench

Ask us anything, or come and watch someone set a stone

The workshop is open by appointment on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Bring the inherited thing in the sandwich bag — we will tell you what it is before we sell you anything.

  • 14 Rue Chapon, 75003 Paris — first floor, ring the bell marked Auverre
  • Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00–18:00 by appointment · Saturday 11:00–17:00 walk-in
  • care@auverre.fr · +33 1 42 77 09 14