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.
A delicious note
We had an absolutely prolific drawer. She drew all the time, everywhere, even on restaurant tablecloths, on the back of checkout receipts... I once presented a client with sketches that had been drawn on grocery notes. I admit that it may look a bit messy, but our client found...