On a recent afternoon in New York City, a small group watched as craftspeople in lab coats cleaned and carved small silver pieces under microscopes.
One by one, they peered through a magnifying glass at the glittering golden plume of a diamond bird. There was a loud gasp when a 3D-printed necklace was revealed.
At Tiffany & Co.’s Jewelry Innovation & Design workshop, the guests — some visiting from Belgium, India and Brazil — were given a front row seat to the jewelry maker’s craftspeople at work. Many staffers had worked at Tiffany’s for decades, showing off their “traditional tools,” including a wall of hammers — some of which were over a century old.
