Our Team

Tom

   

Tom has a degree in Jewellery and Silversmithing but at Tustains is concentrated on watches.

“We are fixated on the time. However much we measure it, we can never control it. It is always against us but we fix it to our wrist all the same. It’s a bit like keeping your eye on the enemy. Clearly, there is a lot more to owning a watch than knowing the time. That shows our sensitivity, our humanity. If we want what we don’t need, it’s because we feel a connection with it. That is what I love about watches.

We don’t need open fires now we have radiators, but we love them”.

 

Joe


Joe started his career in the graphic design industry, but by watching his father working at the jewellery bench, he found a passion and interest in jewellery design and making.

“When I started working with jewellery I found many similarities in the theory of typography and the balance and form in jewellery design.”

His studies in gemmology allowed him to develop a further passion for gemstones; “I try to look at gems in terms of ‘real world’ beauty and attempt to avoid preconceived ideas.”

Who We Are

Jewellery is in our family – our father Barry trained as a jeweller in the 1960s before starting work at the bench for various local businesses. After some years doing repair work at Tustains he settled to work here full time, eventually becoming a partner and in time buying the shop out right. We still remember living above the shop in the early days as we had sold our family home to finance this endeavour.As you may imagine from this very brief description of our early days at Tustains, having been around the business all our lives our passion for what we produce runs very deep and is the beating heart that drives us to keep things special and to do things the right way. We endeavour to continue our father’s ethos of quality, quality, quality and to keep looking forward and embracing new ideas.