Tell Your Love Story with a Ring Stack

Your engagement ring can be the beautiful centerpiece to a fabulous ring stack. Tell your love story and show your personality by stacking rings around your beautiful engagement ring.

Maybe you were gifted a promise ring or an anniversary ring that you would like to incorporate, these pieces are the pieces that tell your love story.  Stack them with your engagement ring and other beautiful rings that will help to customize the stack.

Consider rings with different diamond shapes, metals, and designs.  You can always switch your stack out for different occasions or seasons!

Come in to talk to any of our bridal specialists about creating your unique stack.

Below is a ring stack we created around our 18 k Rose Gold Engagement ring.

18 k Rose Gold Engagement Ring

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Understanding the Difference Between Automatic and Hand-Winding Mechanical Watches

Often we get questions from customers about mechanical watches. Generally, they’d like to understand the difference between mechanical self-winding watches and hand-winding watches. Here, we explain the difference in simple terms…

A mechanical watch is made of hundreds of tiny parts that work together without using batteries (as in quartz watches) or without use of solar power. The mechanical components power the watch and track the time (and often a lot more than just the time).

Hand-Winding Mechanicals

Essentially, a hand-wound — also sometimes referred to as a manual-wind watch — is a timepiece that has an inner movement that must be wound by the wearer on a regular basis. The watch is generally wound via the crown in a singular direction to wind the inner spring and power the watch. As the crown is turned, it sets a small dance into motion thanks to a complicated system of gears that slowly transmit the energy from the crown to a main spring that is coiled inside a barrel. When the crown won’t turn any longer, the spring is fully wound. It then slowly starts to unwind, releasing power to the watch via another series of gears and wheels, including a main balance wheel that helps to regulate the release of energy for consistent timekeeping. If the wearer forgets to wind the watch, the energy runs out and the watch stops working until it is set and wound again.

Automatic/Self-Winding Mechanicals

In an automatic watch — also referred to as a self-winding watch — the movement is built differently than that of a hand-wound watch. It consists of a “rotor” or “oscillator” that is powered by the movement of the wearer’s wrist. As the wrist moves, it automatically moves the rotor, which, as it swings, winds the mainspring inside its barrel. The power lasts for a specified amount of time (referred to as power reserve) if the watch is not being worn, but as long as the watch is worn, it will continually wind itself. Stop in any time to check out our wonderful array of mechanical watches.

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Peridot: August’s Birthstone

Peridot, August’s birthstone.

The ancient Egyptians mined peridot on the Red Sea island of Zabargad, the source for many large fine peridots in the world’s museums. The Egyptians called it the “gem of the sun.” Today this gem is still prized for its restful yellowish green hues and long history.

Shop Peridot at Hamilton Jewelers:

Lisette Stud Earrings

Peridot Stud Earrings

18k Gold and Peridot Necklace (sale)

Lisette Necklace

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Ceramic: The Perfect Watch Material for Summer

As more and more watch brands delve into the realm of high-tech materials for watch cases and bracelets, we are witnessing a host of wonderful new ceramic watches emerge on the market. However, not all ceramics are the same. High-tech engineered ceramic is one of the hardest and most scratch-resistant materials for watches. The cases and bracelets — as long as the watch is water resistant — can get wet without any impact, as the material is durable. As such, this is a great material for summertime watches because they can weather the elements and go the distance.

Additionally, ceramic is a very lightweight material, so the watch doesn’t feel heavy on the wrist. It also is temperature resistant and won’t stick to the wrist in humid climates the way a leather strap would.

Properly engineered ceramic is typically a blend of oxides, carbides, nitrates and zirconium that are mixed, compressed and heated to offer a great polished look that disguises its rugged factors. Because of the luster of ceramic, it also looks great on the wrist so a sporty watch can take on a more urban chic elegant tone, as well.

The first engineered ceramic watches were introduced in the mid-1980s by Swiss watch brand Rado. It took some time before other brands made their foray into ceramic, but in the past years, it has become all the rage. Typically, ceramic for watches is white or black, but some brands are finally experimenting with adding color for gray, brown or even bold red.

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