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Ten Years in London

A new 65-page catalogue marks a decade since Gaetano Chiavetta went independent in Hatton Garden — trained in Palermo, refined in Mayfair.

Finally, after months of work, my first jewellery catalogue is out!

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Everything in it was made right here, in my own studio — Unit LG14, Baldwin's Gardens, Hatton Garden, London.

None of it would exist without Palermo, where I first learned, as a young jeweller, the techniques most of this trade has quietly let disappear. And none of it would carry the standard it does without the years I later spent at Bentley & Skinner in Mayfair, surrounded by some of the finest antique jewellery in the country — working under Mark Evans, the house's director, whose guidance shaped how I learned to look at a piece before I ever touched it. The eye before the hand. There I learned not just to see, but to understand what fine jewellery actually is: the discipline, the difference between good and exquisite.

I became an independent jeweller in 2017. Looking back, it feels like a century ago.

This catalogue is the record of the ten years since: the commissions, the one-off pieces, the ideas that took months to get right. It is, in every sense, the London chapter of a story that began in Sicily, Italy's cherry on top.

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We're sending this catalogue as a gift to the clients who have been part of this decade — and who helped me arrive here today. Ours has grown into a wonderfully large family of clients, and every copy leaves the studio wrapped and sent by hand, one at a time. If yours hasn't arrived yet, it will. Good things, in this trade, are rarely rushed.

If you'd like a copy too, a few are available for £15, just the cost of getting it to you safely. Sixty-five pages of patinated images, telling the story of my jewellery, and now yours.

Order your copy below. Click on the picture to be redirected to the shop.

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