After I'm done with the design sketch,
I send it to this molding department.
This is this team's leader.
He'll set the quality standards for his team members
and assign work to each individual.
Then all the individual parts will be put together
to create a completed mold.
We made this piece for an HRD jewelry design contest awardee.
This piece is highly technical.
Making the cape perfectly fit the body shape was very hard.
Each part of each individual piece
needed to be shaped and polished perfectly
so they would fit together.
This is a broach I designed for a high-end customer.
Each petal was made separately, and then they
were put together to form the flower.
This is very time consuming work.
The worker spent 15 days just making the silver mold,
and another 15 days to complete the gold mold.
This is a design we made for a customer from Beijing.
This design combined traditional Chinese culture with jadeite.
He's already finished the silver mold
and is now working on the gold mold.
This design is for a movie star.
The sketch does not look very complicated,
but it is pretty hard to make.
The hardest part is to create the layered look
of these petals.
It's very time consuming.
After the silver master mold is made,
it will be sent to this department
to make a rubber mold.
These are the finished rubber molds.
We'll make our wax reproductions using these rubber molds.
The next step will be casting.
Here we are at the filing department.
Most of the products they're working on
are for the commercial market.
We're at the mounting department.
This is a design for a high-end consumer.
The big center stone of this piece will be jadeite.
The worker will mount the accent stones under the microscope.
This is the silver mold for this product.
These are the accent stones she's going to mount.
These are yellow diamonds.
This is our publishing department.
Based on my personal experience, overseas jewelry factories,
especially the European ones I visited,
send their products to a separate company for plating.
In China, plating is done at the same factory.
These are the steel molds that we
use for die striking jewelry.
There are two advantages to die striking jewelry.
One is that with these molds we can easily
complete mass produced orders like those
for commercial markets.
Secondly, it easy for us to control the costs.
We can make the products look larger
with less gold weight based on requests from our clients.
Usually there are specialized factories
that make die struck jewelry.
Because my company is also doing jewelry making research,
I have this department within my factory.
This is totally within our traditional lost wax
casting system.
We have about 4,000 sets of molds.
We are the only see-through enamel manufacturer in China.
This is what the finished product looks like.