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Xpose

Weirs — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:06:43 +0000

Xpose on TV3 showed a range of product from Weirs. Stylist Angela Scanlon presented a range of items from leading brands like Daisy Jewellery, Missoma, Casio and Michael Kors. The theme of the extract was items of Jewellery that can be worn at festivals. The jewellery and watches were all Priced ranging from €25 up.

To view the video please click on this link.

Rose Gold

Weirs — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:56:53 +0000

Rose gold is created by alloying gold with copper to give it a reddish yellow complection. After a long absence from mainstream jewellery rose gold has made a healthy return. It can be seen in all the major jewellery collections ranging from Fope to Roberto Coin to Bvlgari to Chopard. We have brought out a range of rose gold engagement and wedding rings for people who want to try something a little different.

Wedding Rings

Weirs — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:41:16 +0000

Weir & Sons are pleased to announce the opening of our new Wedding Ring Boutique in Grafton Street on the Lower Ground floor. Here you will find a large selection of wedding rings in various metals,from regal platinum, shimmering golds, brilliant palladium both plain and set with diamonds.The range covers all aspects of wedding rings and you can relax with a cup of coffee in one of 5 rooms and try on and discuss to your hearts content with our knowledgeable and friendly staff. The rings that we sell can be personalised with an inscription hand applied by our in house Master Engraver, creating a truly unique piece of jewellery to be treasured forever.

Engagement Rings

Weirs — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:20:49 +0000

Weir & Sons stock a wide range of Engagement rings in all shapes, sizes and metals. We have just reintroduced the Weir four claw setting for Round brilliant cut solitaires in Platinum. I will post Photos as soon as they are released from the workshop in the next week or two. The Weir setting looks like a W from the side with round cut diamonds microscopically set into the W. The head of the ring tapers to the shank so that a wedding band fits snugly beside the Engagement ring. Please call into us to view the Weir setting from the middle of May on wards.

The Bridge Artisan Workshop

Weirs — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:06:58 +0000

CELEBRATED ITALIAN LEATHER BRAND, THE BRIDGE BRING “THE ARTISAN WORKSHOP” TO DUBLIN
 For the “aficionados” of real leather and for those who love “The Bridge” at Weir & Sons, Grafton Street
While the ‘worn’ and ‘lived-in’ look has a certain charm when it comes to leather goods, some of the pieces we use day to day can now receive some TLC at a kind of “beauty farm” for small leather goods and leather bags hosted by The Bridge at Weir & Sons, Grafton Street, Dublin. On Friday April 27th and Saturday 28th, The Bridge will host an “artisan workshop” where an expert artisan will restore back close to its original beauty the products of the Italian brand.   
For those who want to keep using their beloved products it becomes a “must” to have them renovated. The Bridge products are hand crafted, created and designed to last long and become an ordinary part of everyday life, in a dimension that goes beyond time and fashionable trends of the moment.
Bags, briefcases, diaries, belts: simple but unique objects destined to accompany you every day. At the event, these products can receive a so-called “remise en forme”. Simply visit The Bridge showcase on the first floor of Weir & Sons on Grafton Street between 10am and 5pm and watch the experts revive your beloved leather pieces from The Bridge. There is no charge and all are welcome to visit the showcase.
On the market for over 40 years, The Bridge has always preferred soft and full-grained hides. Each model is the result of a specific artisan expertise: from the strictly vegetable-tanning process, to the dying and finishing with amber rollers, these processes are done by hand according to old Tuscan traditions. Techniques that require patience, but that give the leather softness, opulence and elasticity.
Unique features that make each bag a timeless accessory, beyond fashion, a mix of tradition and innovation in quality and beauty.
The Bridge Artisan Workshop will take place at Weir & Sons Grafton Street on Friday April 27th and Saturday April 28th from 10am - 5pm.
Weir & Sons, 96-99 Grafton Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 0353 (1) 6779678 Email: leather@weirandsons.ie

Lladro

Weirs — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:48:59 +0000

Our China and Crystal department have started to stock more editions from the Lladro High Porcelain collection. The High Porcelain collection is considered to be the very finest pieces from the collection and are often made in limited editions.

In Lladro’s words “The most demanding standards of quality and virtuosity inevitably imply very limited production. This means that Lladro High Porcelain pieces come in very short editions and sometimes, in fact, they are even unique works”.

A good example is the Mythological Tiger which is pictured to the left. The sculptor is Francisco Polope and it is limited to 1500 pieces worldwide. It is €1,210 and was created in 2011.

Irish Times Chess Trophy Finds New Home

Weirs — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:30:21 +0000

The Irish Times Chess Trophy has found a new home with a Group called Chess For All. The Irish Times editor Kevin O’sullivan kindly donated the trophy as a perpetual prize for the Chess For All national finals. The first winners of the trophy in its new life were St Patrick’s National School from Castlebar, Co Mayo.This is a great outcome and ensures that the trophy can be used and enjoyed as it was intended.

Breitling Transocean Chronograph

Weirs — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:45:01 +0000

The new Breitling Transocean Chronograph was one of the star attractions of the Baselworld show in Switzerland. The all new caliber 05 movement from Breitling combines the complications of a Worldtime with a GMT function and a Chronograph. Changing time zone is as simple as pulling out the crown and turning it in one-hour increments, this is enough to adjust in one smooth move the hour hand, city disc and the 24-hour disc, including the calendar — and none of these operations disturbs either the time or any timekeeping operations in progress.
Weir & Sons will be stocking the Breitling Transocean Chronograph as soon as production allows.

The year of the Dragon

Weirs — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:41:26 +0000

We are now in the year of the Dragon. To celebrate Lladro have made the limited edition Red Dragon. The sculptor is Joan Coderch. There will be 1,888 pieces worldwide and the size is 14X18cm. We will be stocking the Red Dragon in our China and Crystal department on the Lower ground floor of our Grafton Street store.

Irish Times Chess Trophy

Weirs — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:14:42 +0000

Weir & Sons were mentioned on the front page of the Irish Times on Monday the 16th. The article is below.

Game finally over after 50 years for silver chess trophy
IN THE polishing room at the top of the house of Weirs on Grafton Street, a spring clean uncovered a conundrum.

A small silver trophy had been left for engraving but never picked up – after 50 years awaiting inscription – and it was time to do something.

“It’s always been there in the polishing room,” said Allan Kilpatrick of Weir Sons jewellers. “We were doing a bit of spring cleaning, it was cleaned up . . . It needed to find its rightful owner.”

With a rook in the centre and knights on either side, the trophy, made by Alwright Marshall silversmiths, was the Irish Times Game of the Year chess trophy, it turns out.

The trophy was awarded to the best Irish chess player or a chess player in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. Picking from the best “half-dozen or so games” played that year, Irish Times chess correspondent JJ Walsh would forward the scores from the games for independent adjudication.

“Some competitors still appear to be unaware of what constitutes an ideal game of the year entry,” Walsh noted in an article in 1962.

“The overall play is what really matters and a careful note is taken of the loser’s display, for the strength of his resistance in the game can enhance the achievement of the winner.”

Inscribed on the back of the trophy were the names of the five title winners from 1958 to 1962, the final recipient one ‘V Maher’. The Irish Times archive reveals it was a Dr Vincent Maher, but where to find him?

“We believe you won the Irish Times [chess] Game of Year in 1962, Dr Maher?” we said, having tracked the retired GP to Stockport, England.

Born in Dublin in 1929 and educated at Newbridge College, where he learned chess at 13, within six months Vincent Maher could beat everyone at school. He emigrated to England in 1953 and in 1954 he played his first chess Olympiad in Amsterdam. Irish champion in 1955, he won the I rish Times prize in 1961 and in 1962.

“Yes, I’ve got the trophy,” says Dr Maher from the home he shares with his wife Edith. Aged 82, he continues to play, although not competitively.

So who owns the trophy in the polishing room at Weirs?

Walsh explains: “Whoever would win the title would get to keep the [perpetual] trophy for a year; then they would get a replica to keep for good. I don’t know what happened to the trophy when the competition more or less ran out of steam.”

Checkmate.