Quality Assured

You can have complete confidence in the quality of the precious metal used to create your rings.

In accordance with UK law, every ring from our collection is independently tested, verified and hallmarked by an official UK Assay Office.

That hallmark is your guarantee of quality.

WOOLTON & HEWITT is registered with the Edinburgh Assay Office, ensuring that all our precious metal rings and jewellery fully comply with the UK’s hallmarking regulations. Before any piece is dispatched, it also passes through our own internal quality checks to confirm that it meets the the high level of craftsmanship we promise to every customer.

When it comes to making jewellery, precious metals (silver, palladium, gold and platinum) are rarely used in their purest form. Instead they are usually alloyed with lesser metals to achieve a desired strength, durability, and colour. It is not possible to detect the precious metal content of an item by sight or by touch. It is, therefore, a legal requirement in the UK to have items consisting of silver, palladium, gold or platinum independently tested and then hallmarked before they can be described as such. Items must bear a hallmark at point of sale, subject to the weight exemptions shown in the chart below. Learn more about hallmarks from this short video.