Typically a hidden gem of a retailer is tucked away in a strip mall off a thoroughfare sharing house with nail salons and fast-food spots. Colin Buckley’s jewellery retailer is one such gem, tucked between a Sushi restaurant and a veterinarian.
Opened within the Pico Plaza Pavilion in December 2018, Buckley and Co. Jewellery is stuffed with gems and jewels of all types, with show cupboards a treasure trove of glowing diamonds, colourful gems, rings, bracelets, necklaces and watches. The house is clear, open and welcoming for patrons looking for the proper bauble.
Buckley spent 10 years working at a household buddy’s jewellery retailer situated in Laguna Niguel studying all about jewellery and the mechanics of knickknack making earlier than opening his personal retailer entrance in San Clemente. Though he lives in close by Laguna Hills – not too removed from the sand and surf – he’s not a surfer. He needed to open his family-owned tremendous jewellery retailer in San Clemente as a result of he loves the city and enjoys the proximity of getting a enterprise near the ocean.
Buckley’s hobbies from the time he was younger concerned crafting tasks along with his dad within the storage. Collectively they did metalworking, woodworking and different associated crafts like mannequin constructing. Later, when he was older, he and his mates loved working and tinkering on bikes.
Starting his apprenticeship along with his jeweler buddy, he realized that his ardour for palms on tasks helped him within the strategy of discovering a superb match for a artistic profession constructing items of customized jewellery. He spent 10 years honing his abilities and studying totally different elements of the commerce, together with restore work. As an apprentice and the store supervisor on the jewellery retailer, he studied on the Gemological Institute of America (G.I.A). Whereas studying concerning the business he got interested within the mechanics of watches, and his curiosity piqued as a goldsmith studying find out how to work with all sorts of metals; aligning with the kind of creating he had at all times loved.
Whereas Buckley and Co Jewellery is a full-service tremendous jewellery retailer, displaying all sorts of elegant and fashionable jewellery, it additionally gives easy jewellery repairs. Strongly centered on customized work, Buckley’s clients usually need to recreate household items or have one thing made that’s uniquely their very own type. Most of Buckley’s customized work is impressed by images collected by particular person clients, combining their concepts with items that they see displayed within the retailer.
Buckley’s in-house jewellery maker and designer, Monique Pieton – who attended Arizona State College graduating with a level in artwork – completely enjoys working with the purchasers, serving to them create distinctive designs, interpretating what they want from their inspirational concepts, together with their private imaginative and prescient, particular person objectives and budgets for his or her particular keepsakes. She begins by drawing the idea whereas working very intently with Buckley and the purchasers to get the design excellent. The design is then displayed on a 3D software program pc program which permits the shopper to see their distinctive design on all sides. As soon as all people agrees that they just like the design, metals and stones are chosen permitting Buckley and workers to start executing the particular piece at their jeweler’s bench.
Buckley additionally employs Amanda Cable, a bench jeweler who has been making and designing her personal jewellery since 2014. Charlie Buckley, Colin’s nephew and Evan Buckley, Colin’s dad spherical out the workers actually making the small enterprise a household affair. Charlie is especially the in-house watch technician, customer support particular person, and handler of outdoor gross sales and deliveries. Your entire workers takes turns within the entrance of the shop serving to purchasers select their desired ring, necklace, bracelet or watch. Buckley’s household additionally contains his great spouse, Lupita who’s jeweler, (vintage specialist), and is presently taking day off to be at dwelling with their stunning 2-year-old daughter, Mara.
Buckley knowledgeable me that he works with a few of the largest diamond suppliers and has entry to each measurement and form of diamond, together with pure and lab grown varieties, plus he has a wide range of totally different gems, valuable and semi-precious, in each form and coloration conceivable. {Couples} looking for engagement rings and marriage ceremony bands are provided over 500 types to strive on in-store, and his web site options 4 thousand types for brides-to-be, a little bit one thing for everyone’s distinctive style and funds.
It’s value your time to cease in and chat with the pleasant, educated workers prepared and keen that will help you select a brand new piece of knickknack to put on, or to assist you in creating an heirloom to cherish.b
Buckley and Co. Jewellery
415 E. Avenida Pico, D, San Clemente, (949)218-1184
buckley.jewelers.showcase.com.
