Skylight Jewelers
About
Skylight Jewelers is a custom jewelry studio in downtown Boston, a fixture along School Street and the Freedom Trail for decades. It makes engagement rings, wedding bands, including men’s custom bands, and handmade gemstone jewelry from scratch, never mass-produced. Clients can arrive with a sketch, some inspiration or just a rough idea, and the studio guides them from first conversation to finished piece with honest, transparent advice along the way.
Founder Edward Spencer began making jewelry in 1972 after graduating from Boston University with a degree in comparative religions, first as a gem cutter. In 1974 he moved from meeting customers in his living room to a top-floor workshop in the Jewelers Building, where the skylight gave the business its name. Designs are carved by hand in wax, cast, set and finished in the Boston workshop, and Spencer is known for carving Ceylon moonstone and setting it with gold and diamonds.
What to Know
- Custom engagement rings typically take three to six weeks.
- Options include lab-grown diamonds, moissanite, sapphires, emeralds and redesigns of heirloom stones.
- The studio uses CAD as well as traditional wax-carving and hand-building.
- It serves clients nationwide as well as in Boston, starting with a one-on-one consultation.
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