Calvet and Sons Jeweller's

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The tradition of jewellery in garnets in the Pyrenees-Orientales.

In 1804, Francois Qués creates his jewelry, in the street merchants. It ensures the manufacture and the sale of gold and garnet jewelry.
After two centuries of transmission in the setting of the street merchants, the Calvet House is today the oldest jewelry in Prades and in the department.
Since 1804, Maison Calvet saw the Catalan tradition through the manufacture and sale of gold and garnet jewelry.

Each piece of jewelry designed in the workshop starts in the respect of transmission, the smelting of gold until the crimping of the garnet.
Performing any kind of jewelry, Calvet jewelry is specializes in the manufacture of garnet, the emblematic jewel of Catalonia.
Proud of two centuries of experience, the production has kept its quality copy Guarantee “kitten” * (the only shop in Conflent).
* Kitten: Custom shaped gold case, in which the stone is set.

Jean-Michel Calvet offers repair and / or restore your old clocks and watches: dismantling and cleaning of the entire mechanism, polishing each piece.

Visit Workshop and Museum

Calvet jewelry invites you to learn how to make hand-garnet Catalan (slide show), then traveling to the heart of a passion with the tools and the jewelry secular museum. At the end, in the privacy of his workshop, you can observe the craftsmen at work ...
Duration: 30 minutes.

Opening : 9am to 12am and from 2pm to 7pm Tuesday to Saturday and from Monday to Saturday in July to August.
Free tour, maximum capacity 40 people
Facilities: shop, projection room, family museum, parking

The visit allows you to discover the workshop, the exhibition of tools from the 18th century, a slideshow on the true fabrication of Catalan garnets and Catalan « brésils », assembly in the old-fashioned Catlan style, a collection of golden jewellery, garnets and precious stones dating from the 18th century.

(source : www.bijouterie-calvet.com)

This business is listed in the Guide for Tourism Economic Discovery edited by CCI of Perpignan and the Pyrenees-Orientals