How It Started
Before I was a jeweler, I was a United States Marine. During my deployment to Afghanistan, I saw master craftspeople making jewelry the way their families had made it for generations — hand-set stones, hand-formed metal, skill passed down one generation at a time. It was the opposite of the jewelry I'd grown up seeing in American malls, and it changed how I looked at the craft.
When I came home, I knew I didn't want to run a warehouse, and I didn't want to chase trends. I wanted to sell jewelry the way I'd seen it made overseas — by families, with care, with a story attached. I founded JBC Gems in 2018 to do exactly that: to curate, one brand at a time, from family-owned designer houses that still make their pieces the way their families taught them.
