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Authenticity

Proof that a piece is ours

An Avagyans piece carries its own evidence — a signed certificate, a mark struck by the state assay office, and the record of one bench in Yerevan. Here is how to read it.

The certificate

A signed certificate travels with every piece

Each piece leaves the atelier with a serial-numbered Certificate of Authenticity, signed by the house. It records the piece, its metal, its stones, and its number.

That number is yours to check. Enter it on our verification page and confirm the certificate against our records — proof that the piece is what we say it is, held in your name.

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The hallmark

Assayed to the Armenian standard

Before a piece is ours to sell, it is tested and stamped by the Armenian state assay office. The hallmark and its fineness mark are struck into the gold — an independent record of the metal, not a claim we make ourselves.

You will find these marks in a discreet place on the piece: inside a band, on the reverse of a pendant, on the tongue of a clasp.

The bench

One atelier, two generations

Avagyans Jewelry was founded in 2001 by Karen Avagyan, when he left the Yerevan Jewelry Plant to open a bench of his own. His path began in 1991 — the year of Armenian independence — training at the Yerevan Jewelry Plant and refining his craft alongside the best masters in Yerevan.

Today his brother, master goldsmith Armen Avagyan, keeps the bench; Karen leads the client side and still works the bench himself; and Karen's son Samvel — the second generation — leads the house. Every piece is made here, by hands we can name.

Certainty

Know what you own

A piece you can verify, a mark you can find, a bench you can visit. That is what authenticity means to us.

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