Pearl grafting techniques

This process consists of placing a small sphere of oyster shell (known as a nucleus) and a small piece of the mantle of a another oyster into the gonad of the pearl oyster so that the epithelial cells of the mantle will multiply and cover the nucleus creating a pearl sac in which a pearl will grow. This pearl will be made up of thousands fine layers of mother of pearl.

It is these successive layers of mother of pearl and the prismatic structure of the crystals that these layers are made of that deconstruct the light and give the pearl the iridescent quality that we call orient.

Grafting an oyster is a delicate surgical process so it can only be successfully carried out by highly trained experts. And like any surgical process it is their skills and expertise that we rely on to be able to harvest the highest quality pearls.