With every new Pandora collection, we strive to raise the bar for jewellery design and craftsmanship.
Many hands, lots of love
Each Pandora piece passes through an average of 25 pairs of hands during the crafting process. Each piece you wear has been crafted with love.
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From idea to finished piece
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1. The design process
Comprising of six steps that transform ideas into tangible prototypes, we begin by identifying current trends and gathering customer feedback. After analysing the data, we then move onto the creative process, where our design department begins to create mood boards that shape each new collection. Here, the new collection’s general direction and expression starts to take shape. Sketches of individual designs are created, with details continually being added, subtracted or updated to ensure the final design is perfect.
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2. Design and sample development
All new jewellery design ideas are shaped into prototypes throughout a lengthy design process with our design team and craftspeople. In the final stage of the design process, the final designs are selected by our Pandora representatives for launch in the new collection.
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3. Rubber mould cutting
We create a rubber mould by pressing several layers of rubber around the jewellery master and vulcanising the form. This chemical process (vulcan) converts natural rubber into a more durable material through the use of sulphur. The jewellery master is then cut away, leaving behind a rubber mould with an identical hollow impression.
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4. Wax model
The rubber mould is injected with molten wax and two metal plates are pressed on either side of the mould to prevent the wax from running out. The wax then hardens into exact copies of the original jewellery master. The wax model is allowed to cool for a few minutes before being removed from the rubber mould. Each rubber mould is very efficient; it can be reused up to 2000 times.
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5. Treeing
The wax model is cleaned and attached to a wax tree with a burner, adding more wax models until the tree is full.
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6. Burnout ovens
The wax trees are then placed into metal cylinders to create plaster moulds. The cylinders are filled with liquid gypsum and heated in a burnout oven for several hours, baking the gypsum into a hard plaster and melting and evaporating the wax. The process leaves chambers in the plaster, shaped as the jewellery master.
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7. Casting
The plaster moulds then go into a casting machine into which silver or gold alloy is poured. The metal alloy melts down into the forms, replicating the jewellery master.
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8. Cleaning
When the plaster casts have cooled down, the metal trees are removed from inside and cleaned to remove any residue.
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9. Cutting
The jewellery forms are cut from the tree. Any surplus metal is refined and reused.
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10. Grinding
The next step removes the nub of the metal left behind when cutting the piece from the tree, preparing the metal for further refinement.
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11. In-line quality control
There are many quality control checkpoints during our crafting process, the timing of which varies from one crafting facility to another. Our first check typically takes place at this part of the process.