We stay open until 6:00 pm for your convenience
(Please note--we are closed Sundays, Mondays and Holidays)
The shop is brightly lit and very spacious for wheelchair access
We have one showcase dedicated to previously loved estate and antique jewelry
Comfortable chairs
(with reading material) for companions
just "along for the ride"
Showing a couple of showcases filled with our gold jewelry.
Please note that most of the
gold jewelry items we sell are "one of a kind" or very limited production.
We have one of the largest (if not the largest) loose colored gemstone inventories in the area,
with literally thousands of natural gemstones in stock.
The only synthetic we stock is the popular colorless cubic zirconia diamond simulant.
Please note that we change watch batteries (most are $8--all are under $12, including installation)
Please note that there are some watches (very few) that we do not have the tooling to open.
In that case, we will refer you to a watch repair shop about a mile away.
We also have replacement watch bands, ranging in price from $8 (rubber) to $25 (plush leather)
With the recent huge gold price increase, we have started to carry more silver items in our inventory
We have also begun mounting some larger gemstones in silver...
This is Teresa's Corner, with Spiritual, Self-Help and Holistic books, as well as
healing crystals and crystal jewelry.
We have decided to end Jim's used book sales and offer them to our store customers as a bonus of 1 book of your choice for each purchase of $100 or more.
(Exceptions are scarce and/or rare books and some first editions which will be placed in another location of the store.)
At Valley Jewelers, we do all repairs in house (with the exceptions of stone inlay and very small stone pave and flush setting, for which we have no tools),
including
soldering, welding, bead and pearl restringing, and precision gold casting using our vacuum caster (right).
We recently upgraded our laser welder (below), which enables Jim to do many precision repairs on
silver, gold and
platinum jewelry--previously impossible without first removing heat-sensitive gemstones.
In addition, most fine small chains can now be fixed without leaving a visible hard spot (due to solder repair) in the middle.
With this machine's 10X magnification, extremely small individual links can be welded.
Our display of minerals was collected by, and inherited from, Jim's father.
These items are for viewing only, and not for sale.
Jim's father was a Pacific Coast commercial fisherman for many years, and occasionally raised a coral specimen in his
nets between 1959 and 1972.
Again, these items are only for viewing and not for sale.
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