EXCELLENCE AND EXPERTISE: “Jewellery is a souvenir. It may be handed down from technology to technology. It might commemorate a special day, an vital second and reminiscence. For this 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 pressure, there are nonetheless locations, ideas, and visions that do stand the check of time.

Garbo Jewelers is such a spot. Positioned within the Montgomery Purchasing Middle on Route 1 North, it has a narrative to inform, and a unbroken give attention to prime 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 prospects.

The total service retailer provides a wide array of jewellery, together with Berezowsky’s personal customized designs properly as on-premises restore service.

Expanded Area

His data of the jewellery enterprise extends again to his early days as an apprentice. As he explains, “I apprenticed with a jeweler once 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 supplied expanded house, and we added extra excessive finish items, together with emeralds, sapphires, rubies, and diamonds.”

These all grew to become favorites with prospects, who’ve appreciated the superb high quality of the Garbo choice.

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

He provides that Tanzanite can be extremely popular. “Its stunning blue shades appear like sapphire, however it’s far more reasonably priced,” he says.

As well as, pearls stay stay a favourite at Garbo. “They’ve a basic look that’s at all times in type, and that enchantment to many shoppers. We’ve got quite a lot 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 equivalent.”

Nuanced Look

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

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

Engagement and wedding ceremony rings are crucial at Garbo, and whereas diamonds are nonetheless No. 1 for engagement rings, valuable stones of coloration —  resembling emeralds, sapphires, and rubies — are favored selections now too.

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

Garbo additionally has an vital choice of property jewellery, with quite a lot of objects together with classic cameos in several sizes, rings, bracelets, brooches, and watches.

“Property jewellery is fashionable as a result of it has a special look, a historical past,” explains Berezowsky. “Lots of people like classic, and it could actually 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 girls’s watches can be supplied, in a wide selection of types. Seiko is a specialty, and as he factors out, “We’ve got been a Seiko supplier for 40 years.”

Assorted selections in males’s jewellery are additionally supplied, 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 observed adjustments in prospects’ selections through the years, and as he says, “Within the’80s and ’90s, yellow gold was extremely popular. Now, individuals need white gold and platinum. As to type, it’s actually every little thing, from delicate designs to huge, daring, and dramatic. It’s very private. Everybody actually as their very own particular person style.”

Garbo just 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 in addition does restore work and cleansing.

“I particularly take pleasure in 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 substitute previous mountings with new ones.”

Trendy Look

These items have sentimental worth, he provides. “The consumer needs to maintain the ring, for instance, however needs to present it a extra trendy look. I significantly 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 extremely popular.”

Garbo’s shoppers come from everywhere in the Princeton space, and even past, he reviews. “We’ve got a really massive and dependable clientele, and we even have prospects in Florida and South Carolina, who’ve moved from this space. They’ll name me and describe what they’re searching for, they usually know they’ll depend on us to have it for them. They’ll additionally discover issues on our web site.”

The shop was closed for a number of months throughout the top of COVID-19, however prospects 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 provides a large worth vary, he provides. “We at all times emphasize high quality, however we additionally attempt to have one thing for each finances. We’ve got objects at many worth factors, and we’ll they to assist prospects discover the very best piece inside their worth vary.”

Present certificates are additionally accessible.

Along with jewellery on the market, Berezowsky purchases gold, and in addition provides 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 technology, it may be priceless. The shoppers who go to Garbo, looking for one thing that particular will discover each plentiful selections 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 objects and pricing at garbojewelers.com.