The steps of custom jewelry making

From Inspiration to Realization: Your Custom Jewelry in 5 Steps

Bespoke jewelry allows you to tell a unique story through a piece of jewelry. In his boutique and jewelry store at 19 Place Vendôme in Paris, our jeweler and designer, Lorenz Bäumer, puts his creativity at the service of your dreams and desires to bring your wildest dreams to life. The idea is to create a meaningful, avant-garde piece that reflects you, an exceptional item you won't find anywhere else.

From desire to custom manufacturing

The Maison Lorenz Bäumer is dedicated to creating and transforming your jewelry of all kinds, according to your desires and imagination, while respecting your expectations as faithfully as possible. And for good reason, there are many reasons to embark on the adventure of creating custom-made jewelry: a specific event, a unique person, a feeling, an emotion to express, affection for a particular stone, or a precise idea; custom-made is the most original way to bring forth a creation full of meaning.

Like any art form, custom-made jewelry is a powerful vehicle for meaning and emotions, a piece of jewelry that best reflects your desires and personality. Experiencing custom-made means writing or rewriting a story, drawing inspiration from the past and delving into the jeweler's imagination to create a unique and daring piece of jewelry. As one of the greatest jewelers of his time, Lorenz Bäumer enjoys shaking up traditional jewelry codes, which is reflected in his collections, where creations with a unique and particular style and design can be found.

All jewelry, without exception, is invited to the custom-made celebration: earrings, rings, engagement rings, wedding bands, necklaces, bracelets, cufflinks, brooches, or watches. Appreciate custom-made to tell a particular story in an exceptional piece of jewelry. Regarding solitaires and engagement rings, many people choose to place this very special day under the sign of a custom-made creation by adding an engraving or by designing shapes or volumes that evoke a story for them.

A custom-made piece of jewelry is a unique and singular item, made exclusively for you and according to your requirements. In this sense, this creation does not resemble any other existing model. The creation of a custom-made piece of jewelry involves several steps: it starts with a desire, it follows a meeting, and it ends with the realization of your creation.

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The meeting, towards a design of your jewel

In our salon and jewelry store at 19 Place Vendôme in Paris, meet one of the greatest jewelers of our era, Lorenz Bäumer, to begin a project to craft your personalized piece of jewelry. He will design the jewelry of your dreams for you, based on your desires. This initial step is a unique and privileged moment of sharing between the creator and his clients, a unique opportunity to discover all the treasures this magical place of Parisian high jewelry holds. Because it's never easy to let your emotions and imagination speak, you can start your custom original jewelry creation project by drawing inspiration from a model in one of our collections.

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Choosing your alloy and gemstones

Choosing stones and alloys is a special moment. Indeed, the precious sparkle of a gemstone foreshadows an exceptional piece of jewelry and can evoke a particular emotion or feeling. Precious stones, fine stones, and pearls are available to you: diamonds, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, spinels, tourmalines, aquamarines, sapphires, and other stones can be set in your jewelry.

Diamond is the most selected stone for custom jewelry creations, especially for making engagement rings or wedding bands. Necklace, ring, pendant, bracelet, wedding band, or engagement ring, you can have your jewelry set with the stones you desire. You can choose the number of carats you want for your stone. The higher the number of carats, the higher the price of your stone.

Next comes the choice of metal. Between white gold, rose gold, or black rhodium-plated white gold, Maison Lorenz Bäumer offers you a range of possibilities to imagine the most perfect creation possible. White gold is often selected for an engagement ring, especially with a setting of white diamonds that highlight the brilliance of this mount. Also, blue sapphire pairs very well with white gold.

No matter which metal you choose, Maison Lorenz Bäumer is committed to offering you unique and exceptionally high-quality creations. Indeed, we work alongside passionate artisans, capable of creating necklaces, bracelets, rings, or other jewelry with a unique and singular design.

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Custom gouache

Gouache, a realistic reflection of the jewel, is an essential step in bespoke creation. It highlights the combination of design, stones and colours, for a subtle and artistic rendering: a complete souvenir of the creative adventure of a bespoke jewel.

3D modelling of your custom-made jewellery

3D modeling of a piece of jewelry is the fourth step in the creation process. This, carried out using software, allows the workshops a perfect understanding of the technical challenges of the design and allows clients to visualize their request before its manufacture.

Indeed, from this model, the artisans working in our workshops will immediately understand the technicality of the jewelry, and will see the necessary stones such as a diamond or other precious stone.

Bracelets, necklaces, rings and other creations are necessarily modeled to bring the most accurate creation possible to life.

Maison Lorenz Bäumer works alongside workshops with particular excellence, each having its own expertise: jewelers, diamond setters, lapidaries, stone setters and polishers who allow creations to have a perfect result and thus, make dreams coincide with reality. This tailor-made expertise is important for both the creator and the client to give rise to an exceptional creation, developed from traditional savoir-faire of excellence, values that reflect those of Maison Lorenz Bäumer.

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The manufacturing time for custom-made jewelry

The manufacturing time for your custom piece will depend on the piece itself, its size, its volume, and the precious materials it incorporates. Some stones are indeed difficult to find and will take our production department longer to source due to their rarity.

It's also important to consider all the preliminary work involved in making this exceptional piece of jewelry: the imagination, creation, gouache painting, 3D modeling, and workshop work, all done to provide you with precisely the piece of jewelry you dream of. On average, it takes between 8 to 12 weeks for custom jewelry pieces, but you should allow a few extra weeks for the creation of a custom high jewelry piece.

Regardless of the time required to create your jewelry, Maison Lorenz Bäumer is committed to offering you conscientious creations that live up to your expectations. Men and women, appreciate the many possibilities of custom-made jewelry thanks to the excellence, expertise, and meticulous work of our designer and our workshop experts.

The world of custom jewelry is a world of excellence, where every detail is carefully and meticulously considered to create the jewelry of your dreams while best meeting your expectations. We wish to put our expertise at the service of your desires to accompany you in your custom creation process.

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