Where to buy.... (Come in & help me please!)

• Detached

  2 Mar 09, 22:40

  Jade bangle?

  Mama's bird day's coming really soon.. Anyone got goldsmiths or whatever shops to recommend? And also what's the damage?

  (One more thing, do they come in standard sizes? Or I gotta roughly gauge how big my mom's hand is?)

  Thanks

• MooKu

  2 Mar 09, 22:42

  NO! They don't come in standard sizes.

  You better bring her to the shop to buy one.

• Detached

  2 Mar 09, 22:43

  Originally posted by MooKu:

  NO! They don't come in standard sizes.

  You better bring her to the shop to buy one.

  
  Failed.

  Lousy advice.

  I want to give her the surprise element.

  

  Oh yes dear, I'm probably buying her dinner too.. =D

• MooKu

  2 Mar 09, 22:45

  Originally posted by Detached:

  
  Failed.

  Lousy advice.

  I want to give her the surprise element.

  

  Oh yes dear, I'm probably buying her dinner too.. =D

  Then next time I try to see how big her hand is loh.

  It's not lousy advice - I have three bangles, all purchased without my presence, and they all don't fit. They're all too small, my dad has underestimated his daughter's hand... it's actually fatter than he thinks it is...

• the Bear

  2 Mar 09, 22:45

  wrist size doesn't make it either.. dependent on how big her hand is too..

  and price.. again dependent.. jade can be cheap as heck or cost more than its weight in gold depending on the quality..

• kiseki

  2 Mar 09, 22:46

  Originally posted by Detached:

  
  Failed.

  Lousy advice.

  I want to give her the surprise element.

  

  Oh yes dear, I'm probably buying her dinner too.. =D

  Ahhh... the element of surprise.

• Detached

  2 Mar 09, 23:02

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  wrist size doesn't make it either.. dependent on how big her hand is too..

  and price.. again dependent.. jade can be cheap as heck or cost more than its weight in gold depending on the quality..

  
  Recommend some shops, uncle bear?

  Would you give a rough estimate price wise too?

• Detached

  2 Mar 09, 23:05

  Originally posted by kiseki:

  Ahhh... the element of surprise.

  
  

   

• kiseki

  2 Mar 09, 23:12

  Ok ok. I don't know much about jade bangles so can't help. =\ Get her wrist measurements through her watch or something and bring it to the jeweller's to ask for suggestions?

• Detached

  2 Mar 09, 23:13

  Originally posted by kiseki:

  Ok ok. I don't know much about jade bangles so can't help. =\ Get her wrist measurements through her watch or something and bring it to the jeweller's to ask for suggestions?

  
  It's not just the wrist, it's her hand too.. the size of her palm.. remember it's a bangle?

• kiseki

  2 Mar 09, 23:19

  http://www.yingyujade.com/measure_bangle.htm

   

  Looks helpful.

• Detached

  2 Mar 09, 23:24

  Originally posted by kiseki:

  http://www.yingyujade.com/measure_bangle.htm

   

  Looks helpful.

  Too obvious liao.. she'd definitely know something's wrong..

  I'll use the gf method

• cassie

  2 Mar 09, 23:32

  Does she have an existing bangle you can use as a gauge? Also, is she into jade?
• Detached

  2 Mar 09, 23:34

  Originally posted by cassie:

  Does she have an existing bangle you can use as a gauge? Also, is she into jade?

  
  She doesn't... She had one many years ago... She liked it a lot.. but broke it when she hit me =( I was a bad egg =(

  Now I wanna replace it =D

  Cassie, any shops to recommend? Also estimated price range?

• gasband

  2 Mar 09, 23:38

  Take a trip to Chinatown bah, the jewellery shops there or even some those antique shops, u might find some treasures there leh

• Detached

  2 Mar 09, 23:40

  Originally posted by gasband:

  Take a trip to Chinatown bah, the jewellery shops there or even some those antique shops, u might find some treasures there leh

  
  Hope I don't ended up spending a bomb on fakes

• TehJarVu

  2 Mar 09, 23:41

  i bought 1 for someone a month back
  from Taka at Bedok
  S$99 they selling at S$20
  but I am sure this is not what u are after

• cassie

  2 Mar 09, 23:43

  I never had any jade jewelery in my life. Sorry can't help. Guess you have a lot of homework to do. Walk around some of the jewelery shops.
• gasband

  2 Mar 09, 23:45

  Originally posted by Detached:

  
  Hope I don't ended up spending a bomb on fakes

  Then ur best bet is those jewellery shops liao lor unless you have an expert with u.. jewellery shops in Chinatown more old school ones sure have one!

• Detached

  2 Mar 09, 23:47

  Originally posted by TehJarVu:

  i bought 1 for someone a month back
  from Taka at Bedok
  S$99 they selling at S$20
  but I am sure this is not what u are after

  
  Taka? Wah zhun bo?

  How come discount so big anyway? Got a picture?

• Detached

  2 Mar 09, 23:47

  Originally posted by cassie:

  I never had any jade jewelery in my life. Sorry can’t help. Guess you have a lot of homework to do. Walk around some of the jewelery shops.

  
  Be someone's son.. not easy

• Detached

  2 Mar 09, 23:49

  Originally posted by gasband:

  Then ur best bet is those jewellery shops liao lor unless you have an expert with u.. jewellery shops in Chinatown more old school ones sure have one!

  
  Expert? No lah..? Jack of all trades... got one... and that's me

• TehJarVu

  3 Mar 09, 00:04

  Originally posted by Detached:

  
  Taka? Wah zhun bo?

  How come discount so big anyway? Got a picture?

  
  

• Detached

  3 Mar 09, 00:10

  Originally posted by TehJarVu:

  
  

  This is Chinese Jade or Burmese Jadeite ah?

  Noopi.. do you happen to know how to tell a piece of good jade from a lousier quality ones?

  How come so cheap???
  

• viciouskitty74

  3 Mar 09, 00:10

  Nice kid.

  And yah, jade is very subjective.  Some can be cheap, some can be terribly expensive for a fake stone.

  Do you live near market centrals?  Do walk thru during the mornings, you might find some really old ladies setting up a floor stall and selling jade stuffs they purchased long time ago in China.

  Or Taka I see from someone's attachment is a good choice. 

  The most places to find jades is either Chinatown or Fu Lu Shou Building area (Bugis).  But cannot garantee they are real or cheap.

  I had one, broke it when I landed my wrist heavily on something.  The bangle broke several hours later, and landed on a shop wooden floor loudly.  The sound shocked a lot of people around me.  And I was advised that it probably broked because it shielded me from some disaster.