EXCELLENCE AND EXPERTISE: “Jewellery is a memento. It may be handed down from era to era. It might commemorate an important day, an vital second and reminiscence. This is the reason it means a lot to individuals.” Gary Berezowsky, proprietor of Garbo Jewelers, is proven by a show of top quality items, together with a two-tone mosaic necklace, Baroque pearls, 18-karat multi-color Tahitian and South Sea pearls, and a 14-karat yellow gold necklace with industrial-inspired interlocking hyperlinks.

By Jean Stratton

It’s good to know that in our present period when “quick and livid” appears to be the dominating power, there are nonetheless locations, ideas, and visions that do stand the take a look at of time.

Garbo Jewelers is such a spot. Positioned within the Montgomery Procuring Heart on Route 1 North, it has a narrative to inform, and a seamless deal with top quality jewellery and educated, pleasant service and recommendation.

Its historical past dates to 1982, when proprietor Gary Berezowsky opened his first jewellery retailer in Avenel. A grasp goldsmith and appraiser, he determined to maneuver to the Princeton space in 1997, and Garbo Jewelers has been a mainstay for his many loyal clients.

The complete service retailer affords a big selection of knickknack, together with Berezowsky’s personal customized designs properly as on-premises restore service.

Expanded Area

His information of the jewellery enterprise extends again to his early days as an apprentice. As he explains, “I apprenticed with a jeweler after I was simply beginning out, and I leaned about jewellery. Then, I went to the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in New York Metropolis, and have become a gemologist and a GIA licensed appraiser.

“After I moved to Montgomery, the shop provided expanded area, and we added extra excessive finish items, together with emeralds, sapphires, rubies, and diamonds.”

These all turned favorites with clients, who’ve appreciated the wonderful high quality of the Garbo choice.

“We’ve GIA-certified diamonds, Ceylon sapphires, Zambian and Colombian emeralds, and Burmese rubies,” says Berezowsky. “These are very particular.”

He provides that Tanzanite can also be very talked-about. “Its lovely blue shades seem like sapphire, however it’s way more inexpensive,” he says.

As well as, pearls stay stay a favourite at Garbo. “They’ve a traditional look that’s all the time in type, and that attraction to many shoppers. We’ve a wide range of shapes and sizes, together with the extremely fascinating Tahitian pearls. Baroque pearls are additionally particularly interesting, as they epitomize the distinctive high quality of pearls since no two pearls are similar.”

Nuanced Look

Opals are additionally a favourite with many purchasers, who benefit from the stone’s nuanced look and beautiful shading.

Rings and earrings are best-sellers on the retailer, however necklaces and bracelets are additionally widespread. Stackable bangles are particularly in demand now, studies Berezowsky.

Engagement and wedding ceremony rings are crucial at Garbo, and whereas diamonds are nonetheless No. 1 for engagement rings, treasured stones of shade —  comparable to emeralds, sapphires, and rubies — are favored decisions now too.

Anniversary bands proceed to be in demand, and could be a treasured  option to commemorate a particular anniversary.

Garbo additionally has an vital choice of property jewellery, with a wide range of gadgets together with classic cameos in numerous sizes, rings, bracelets, brooches, and watches.

“Property jewellery is widespread as a result of it has a unique look, a historical past,” explains Berezowsky. “Lots of people like classic, and it will possibly vary from greater than 100 years in the past to the Nineteen Sixties. All throughout the spectrum.”

Array of Kinds

A choice of males’s and ladies’s watches can also be provided, in a wide selection of types. Seiko is a specialty, and as he factors out, “We’ve been a Seiko supplier for 40 years.”

Assorted decisions in males’s jewellery are additionally provided, and embrace rings, bracelets, chains, and cufflinks.

“We additionally carry non secular medals, crosses, and Stars of David, and Jewish Chai necklaces,” he factors out.

Berezowsky had seen modifications in clients’ decisions through the years, and as he says, “Within the’80s and ’90s, yellow gold was very talked-about. Now, individuals need white gold and platinum. As to type, it’s actually all the things, from delicate designs to large, daring, and dramatic. It’s very private. Everybody actually as their very own particular person style.”

Garbo isn’t solely set aside by its distinctive choice of the best jewellery, but in addition by its on-site workshop. There, Berezowsky creates his customized designs, and likewise does restore work and cleansing.

“I particularly get pleasure from redesigning older items,” he observes. “It’s the creativity and developing with new concepts. We will improve an older piece with a extra up-to-date look. We regularly exchange previous mountings with new ones.”

Fashionable Look

These items have sentimental worth, he provides. “The consumer needs to maintain the ring, for instance, however needs to provide it a extra trendy look. I notably just like the creativity concerned in making an previous ring into a brand new one. And one other chance is to show it right into a pendant. That is typically very talked-about.”

Garbo’s purchasers come from all around the Princeton space, and even past, he studies. “We’ve a really massive and constant clientele, and we even have clients in Florida and South Carolina, who’ve moved from this space. They’ll name me and describe what they’re searching for, and so they know they will rely on us to have it for them. They will additionally discover issues on our web site.”

The shop was closed for a number of months through the peak of COVID-19, however clients have been returning in massive numbers, says Berezowsky. “They’re so glad to have the ability to are available and have face-to-face interplay, and spend time with us.”

Garbo affords a large worth vary, he provides. “We all the time emphasize high quality, however we additionally attempt to have one thing for each price range. We’ve gadgets at many worth factors, and we are going to they to assist clients discover the perfect piece inside their worth vary.”

Present certificates are additionally obtainable.

Along with jewellery on the market, Berezowsky purchases gold, and likewise affords an appraisal service.

There’s a romance to jewellery, and when a particular piece turns into an heirloom to be handed down to a different era, it may be priceless. The purchasers who go to Garbo, looking for one thing that particular will discover each plentiful decisions and distinctive private consideration. That’s how an institution endures and thrives for 40 years!

For extra info, name (609) 252-9797. Go to the web site for particular gadgets and pricing at garbojewelers.com.