I remember a setter who lost a stone through the window. It was too hot in the workshop and he had opened the window to ventilate. The diamond fell on the roof of the neighbouring warehouse… Ladder, velux, it was an adventure to get it back.
We didn’t do any better, but one day while setting a centre, the stone blew up… and it disappeared. We spent hours looking for it. And then, not a small stone, almost a carat. We only found it months later when we did a major cleaning. It was in a spider’s web!
H., setter.
Sometimes we make jokes
In the workshops, the workers generally have a rather fierce sense of humour. And the main target is the young apprentices and trainees. And preferably those who are just starting out in the trade, who know absolutely nothing or very little about it. You can then make them believe...