MAHNAZ COLLECTION - A BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE for the independent-minded, vintage-loving jewelry and timepiece lover.

When adorned with our jewels of beauty, versatility, imagination, and wearability, you remain uniquely yourself, only more stylish, whether glittering or minimalist.

At MAHNAZ COLLECTION, you will find finely crafted and handmade jewels and wristwatches of a quality that is difficult to find today.

We are New York City’s trusted Gallery for selectively curated and researched original and collectible modern-vintage and contemporary jewels and timepieces made mainly since 1960. These collectible works have been made by designers, artists, gold/silversmiths, and technical watchmakers. Mostly innovators, they have reshaped and transformed design and provoked new questions about concepts of beauty and value in jewelry.

You will find distinctive, one-of-a-kind, modernist works; signed vintage design classics from independent jewelers and high houses; artist-made works of conceptual excellence, technical virtuosity, and material boldness; museum-quality Indigenous southwestern Native American jewelry and watches; and jewels and timepieces by pioneering women artists and designers.

Across the collections, you will find innovative yellow gold and colored gemstone jewels of the 1960s and 1970s that best represent these decades of radical change. Then, jewelers connected with Nature more directly, embraced textured surfaces, and focused on futurism.

Our jewels become your treasured gems worth keeping in the family, sealing a promise, and passing on to your loved ones, imbued with your stories, passion, and legacy.

We are known for our highly curated, knowledge-based jewelry and newer timepiece collections, the depth of our design and cultural research, and the distinctive jewels and jeweler histories we identify and source in a range of collecting areas. When brought together, these jewelry collections, covering a geography from Helsinki to Hopi, tell important stories, including the unique story of modernism’s multifaceted writ, alongside those delineating the power of cultural traditions and ancient motifs in the jewelry world.

We are especially recognized for our expertise in jewelry made by forward-looking, independent designers, goldsmiths, and artists from North and South America, including Indigenous peoples, and from Europe, Britain, and the Nordic Countries since the 1960s.

We are specialists in the works of the London avant-garde jewelers most active during 1960-1980, including Andrew Grima, John Donald, George Weil, Charles de Temple, and Louis Osman, creator of the modernist Investiture Coronet for Charles, Prince of Wales, now King Charles III.

We are also known as a significant collector of jewelry made by Maison Chaumet during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, designed by Pierre Sterle and René Morin. Some of it is for the unique L’Arcade collection, appealing to the more on-trend, design-conscious, younger buyers who emerged in the 1970s.

We invest in once-known, lost-to-history jewelers, and critical contemporary jewelers who are not fully recognized, from Angelo Giorgio Cazzaniga in Rome during the 1950s to Indigenous Native American artist-makers or art jewelers today. We invest in research, original publications, and museum-quality exhibitions for these makers because their exceptional artistry and craftsmanship, design ideas, and storytelling merit collectors and museum interest, as well as the affection of an array of jewelry lovers. We actively sell their essential works.

Our business model preserves and reuses existing modern-vintage jewels and thereby contributes broadly to a more sustainable environment. We also partner with contemporary jewelers who create alternatives to detrimental mining and gem extraction. We hear the voices of Indigenous peoples whose attitudes towards Nature, animals, and raw materials may differ from those of many of us.

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We buy jewelry with appropriate discretion and at fair prices, so feel free to send us an email note regarding items you no longer wear.