Watson Jewelers Gemologists — Local services in Marianna

Wow! Beware with this place. If you leave your item with them, you may want to have your stone verified and insured. Might swap your natural diamond for a lab grown. We went because its advertised as gemologist. We had a few rough diamonds and a gold wishbone pin with a rather large red rough but polished stone that dangled from a gold piece. The red stone fluoresced very bright red with the UV light that I had brought. Tested positive on a cheap diamond tester i had. The old man looked at us as if we were picking rocks up from the road front thinking they were something valuable. If we wanted to waste money. He was gonna have to send them off to be tested and the battery in his gold tester was almost dead. He could tell by looking at everything that it was a waste of his time. Worthless rocks! He went off to the back and never came back. The woman working with him must have felt differently because she made her best effort to hide the gold pin with the red stone under a tablet of paper. Trying to keep us occupied with conversation while we watched the pin with the red stone get deeper and farther away.

Being embarrassed for her I didnt make a big deal out of it. I asked her where the wishbone pin was and when she picked up the yellow legal sized pad of paper, she was trying to hold it straight. Like she didnt know where it went. About that time the pad of paper fell limp and out fell the ANTIQUE 18k gold wishbone brooch holding a 14.6 carat Burmese Ruby (now GIA certified).

Very snotty and not a gemologist! Nice try lady. LOLOLOL Shame on you. Maybe they hoped we would just ask them to trash the items we brought in. Since they told us it was all worthless. When that wasnt gonna happen she tried to steal or hide the ruby. She rambled on for about 15 minutes hoping we would forget about it as she buried it deeper and deeper under paper behind the counter. That only made me feel as though we really had something. I probably wouldnt have sent it to NY to be tested had she not wanted it bad enough to steal it. So…....

In 2019, I found my wedding ring. It was the one, but it was a size 5.5. I needed an 8.5. I walked into a jewelry store, and they told me the ring could not be resized. They said I needed to return it and buy one in my size. That wasn't an option. This ring was one of a kind and it was my forever ring. I walked out of that shop and right down the sidewalk to Watson Jewelers. I told them what the other people said, and they said yes, that it was true. That my ring could potentially collapse during the heating process. They said they would be willing to try but that I needed to understand that the ring could collapse and that no matter what happened, I would have to pay for it. While they were trying to talk me out of doing it, I could tell they really wanted to give it a try. I told them this was my ring and to do it. Boy, did they! Pictures do not do this beauty justice. I trust them with all my jewelry. I recently had some work done on my wedding ring and had them resize my grandmother's ring so I could wear it. I love how professional they are. How they keep me abreast of everything that is happening with my jewelry and their talented team. Thank you so much for your willingness to...

Nice store, but called for price to have a ring resized and they stated it starts at $35 so we took it to them and the lady that was helping us was nice and was giving us prices until another lady walked over grabbed my ring and took over, she stated it will need rodium, and then it went from 1 prong to 3 prongs needing fixed and if they knock the diamonds out while being sized I have to pay for them to put back on and it was 45 days before getting it back. Price kept going up until it hit $300 and we walked out. My husband said they were snooty acting.

We took my ring to another jewerler who does in shop repairs and they did a excellent job and only cost me $75 for 2 rings, one sized and fixed the prong(which only 1 needed it) and other ring to replace 3 diamonds, both were...