Seal Engraved Signet Rings

All our rings and other products are created individually for you in our hand engraving workshop.

Seal engraved signet rings.

Surface engraving is ideal for cufflinks. All seal engraved rings come with a wax impression of your design. The most common seal engraved signet material is metal. They can also be surface engraved in the positive with initials and dates engraved under the head.

Seal engraved signet rings choose a style the lauder name has been associated with london s jewellery trade for three generations designing and making beautiful jewellery throughout this time. Signet rings seal engraved with crests arms and other heraldic devices as well as masonic school military and other designs. A typical signet ring has a design often a family or personal crest created in intaglio so that it will leave a raised relief impression of the design when the ring is pressed onto liquid sealing wax. Engraving an entire coat of arms onto a small product like a signet ring pendant or cufflinks for a hand engraver is a complex undertaking often this service is only offered as a surface engraving with neither the wearability or charm of a seal engraving because very few jewellers have the required skills i do not.

This traditional technique means that when the ring is pressed into softened wax to form the seal the resulting impression reveals the correct image. Classic signet rings in popular categories are costed for you to buy today however some more unusual mounts or out of the ordinary engravings will require a quotation. Un engraved classic ladies gents signet rings also available. Signet rings are generally seal engraved whereby a family crest or coat of arms is engraved on the surface of the ring in the negative the wax impression comes out in the positive.

Did you scroll all this way to get facts about seal engraved signet. Complexity of the engraving affects the cost as well as the ring itself. Seal engraving is a traditional and specific way of engraving by hand. A signet ring is a ring bearing on its flat top surface the equivalent of a seal.

Well you re in luck because here they come. Each signet ring is showcased in a luxury wooden box complete with its unique seal. Seal engraving seal engraving sometimes known as intaglio is the process of engraving in relief and in reverse creating the ability to produce a perfect wax impression. The engraving is complete is reverse and is carved deeper than surface engraving.

When pressed into soft wax the impression then appears the correct way around.