The same standard across the whole series
Jewellery quality control
Three hundred pieces on a tray, and the same eye on the last as on the first. In jewellery, series inspection takes as much consistency as method.
Depending on the batch, I inspect every piece or work to a written sampling plan. The plan sets how many pieces are looked at, against which criteria, and what triggers a wider inspection. Stone setting, though, is checked on every piece. The security of the jewel comes before everything else.
When I step in
I fit your production rhythms and the pressures of the workshop. Weeks under strain call for one more eye, already trained.
- Production peaks and launches
- I cover an absence or back up a short-staffed team when the pace picks up. At a collection launch, I keep the inspection station from becoming the bottleneck.
- Tighter requirements
- When a partner maison tightens its incoming criteria, returns pile up. I help you answer that.
- Requalification
- A whole stock has to be requalified before a transfer. I inspect it.
The scope of inspection
- Coming off the bench
- I inspect the jewellery just before it ships.
- At goods-in from suppliers
- I inspect at the start of the chain rather than at its end, when that is where inspection helps most.
- On returns, boutique and after-sales
- I make a double reading, the condition of the piece and what happened to it.
- On stock
- I requalify pieces before a transfer or an internal sale.
A transparent, documented method
Every piece is examined by hand, against a written criterion. I use the maison’s reference guide when it exists. When it is still to be built, I record the criteria applied.
Every rejection is named. Borderline cases are photographed and referred to the person who decides. The evening report lists every decision, not only the rejections.
Continuous improvement for your workshop
In the evening, the workshop keeps the day’s points of vigilance, illustrated. For each case, the piece, the defect, the criterion and the decision.
The attention goes above all to pieces accepted at the edge of tolerance, those that pass today and might not pass tomorrow. It is this daily adjustment that makes the following week start a little higher than the one before.
The expertise, both sides of the bench
I trained my eye in two maisons on the Place Vendôme, first on coloured gemstones, then in jewellery and high jewellery. I then worked in manufacturing, on the other side of the table.
So when I look at a piece, I see what the maison expects, and what the workshop had to do to get there.