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How To See Your Wedding Rings Being Made

When you choose your wedding ring at Biagio the Jeweller, you won’t be buying something ready-made and impersonal. Your wedding ring will be made especially for you, and we will help guide you through all the available options of metals, finishes, widths and styles. You can choose from yellow gold, white gold, platinum, titanium or palladium, a lighter, but harder derivative of platinum. A band incorporating two metals gives a striking contrast and can represent two people coming together as one. The ring can be classically plain, grooved and textured,... Read More

The Underwater Proposal

Looking for an inventive, adventurous way to whip up even more drama to ask the question? Underwater proposal with a Biagio engagement ring!! Looking for an inventive, adventurous way to whip up even more drama to ask the question?Jake did just this when he proposed to Abigail whilst diving in the Red Sea on holiday. Plenty of thought and planning went into this one, no ordinary proposal – but then every proposal is special.Finding the right engagement ring was essential to this remarkable proposal story. Jake had covertly done his... Read More

Tropics Collection Spring 16 By Biagio Patalano

Those of you who eagerly await Biagio’s new collections each season will remember the launch last year of his own named collection, Nero by Biagio Patalano, an exclusive range of gold, platinum and silver pieces designed by Biagio himself using his favourite gemstone and metal combinations. The core collection, which took inspiration from fluid organic shapes, was a roaring success and we are now delighted to bring you a fresh new segment to the range. Inspired by the heady scent of tropical flowers and their lush foliage, Biagio has created... Read More

Why Come To Biagio For Your Wedding Rings?

There’s a particular buzz in the air in the two Biagio the Jeweller stores when one of the biannual Wedding Rings Event is approaching. Biagio Patalano and his team of course meet newly engaged couples throughout the year who come in to the Bicester and Thame stores to choose their wedding bands, but there’s an extra frisson of excitement when the event diary fills up with bookings and the mystery-value tickets, offering couples a genuine discount of between 10% and 50% off their chosen rings, are hidden inside Biagio’s hand-made... Read More

Valentine’s Day: Remembering The Unique Amongst The Universal

Lovers express their affection to each other on 14th February in many countries around the world and many symbols of Valentine’s Day are universally represented – Cupid and his arrow, courting birds, red roses, locks and keys, and of course the ubiquitous heart. Some traditions around the world are not as well-known to us: In Slovenia, the belief endures that plants and flowers start to grow on the day of Saint Valentine, who was one of the saints of spring, good health and the patron of beekeepers. The work in... Read More

Christmas Celebration Sundays 2015

Join us for Prosecco, panettone and plenty of fun at our Christmas Celebration Sundays. Both our Thame and Bicester stores will be open on the two Sundays before Christmas – 13th and 20th December – to allow you to show in style and clinch the ideal gifts for the most special people in your life. The atmosphere will be magical as will the thrill of finding the perfect gift. View our favourite pieces for Christmas, as well as our full range of capsule collections for 2016. We will wrap up... Read More

Winners-A-Plenty At Thame Store Reopening

There was joy to be shared around at the grand reopening of Biagio the Jeweller Thame store, and four prizewinners were in particular luck that week. Thame resident, Julie Gela-Dundas, was almost speechless to discover that she had won an exquisite diamond pendant necklace. “This never happens to me!”, she said. “I have been a customer of Biagio the Jeweller for so many years that the staff feel like friends. And what a gift they have given me. The pendant is amazing!”   Visitors to the new store were entered... Read More

Thame Store Opening Party

Please come and say ‘Ciao!’ at our Opening Party for our newly transformed Thame store in Greyhound Walk. Saturday 24th October from 10am to 5pm For months we have been planning the interior of the store, travelling to furniture makers internationally to source bespoke furnishings, and to create a sumptuous new backdrop for our ever-changing ranges of jewellery, watches and objets d’art. The time has now come to open the doors! You can browse the new collections chosen especially to mark this opening, as well as Biagio’s firm favourite pieces... Read More

Thame Store Refurbishment

If you have walked along Thame’s Greyhound Walk recently, you will have noticed that some covert activity is going on in the Biagio the Jeweller store. Do not panic! We will return! Craftsmen are working flat out into the evenings, under the watchful and exacting eye of Biagio himself, and out of the noise and dust, we will re-emerge in a new guise, transformed into a sumptuous space for Biagio’s collections. We will open the doors of our completely refurbished store on Monday 19th October 2015. The new interior, designed... Read More

Winner Best Jewellers Award

We are thrilled that Biagio the Jeweller has won the Best Jeweller category in the 2015 Muddy Stilettos Awards. The Muddy Stilettos blog, written by Haddenham-based journalist Hero Brown, is a quirky, fun and honest guide to the best retailers, restaurants, hotels, walks and events in our area. 30,000 followers check out Hero’s reviews and recommendations at http://bucksoxon.muddystilettos.co.uk/. 140 businesses in 28 categories were shortlisted, including five local jewellers in the Best Jewellery Store category – the first time this category has been included in the Awards. Muddy Stilettos subscribers... Read More