Difference between a jewelry shop and a store

If we think that a jewelry store and a jeweler’s shop are the same things, we might be surprised. These two terms may seem very close in meaning at first glance, but they are not at all the same. To clarify the difference between the two, we invite you behind the scenes of our workshop to glimpse the art that goes into crafting our creations.

To do so, let us compare the experience of visiting our jewelers in the Kirkland shop with the experience we can expect when we visit a jewelry store. The definition of a jewelry store, however, is much more basic. A jewelry store is “a retail business establishment that specializes in selling (and also buying) jewelry and watches.”

While some jewelry stores provide services such as repairs, remodeling, and manufacturing, many jewelry store owners do not make the pieces they sell. In general, the typical shopping center jewelry store displays and sells pieces prefabricated by manufacturers.

In a typical jewelry store, we choose from the jewelry on display on the counter. Since most of these pieces are offered as-is, there is not much flexibility for changing a detail or two. Additionally, if we wish to have gemstones in Seattle of a specific size, there will be almost no latitude to change the stone. Indeed, the dealers and retailers who run most jewelry stores have less knowledge of diamonds and other gemstones in the vast majority of cases. For more details on this, please browse www.gordonjamesdiamonds.com.