Brams Jewelry

Brams Jewelry Custom design jewelry for you? Yes! Fun and fine pre-loved jewels for sale? Repairs on both fun and fine jewels? Brams pieces for sale?

Jewelry store that features custom designed gold pieces by Connie Bram (Connie Bramoweth). We have antique and vintage fine jewelry, small antiques and art photographs by Larry Bram. We also sell sterling silver and I am currently working with a designer in Vietnam to produce water buffalo horn jewelry. Prices in the store vary from $9.00 stainless rings to $5000.00 (and up occassionally) for 14k, 18k and 22k pieces.

Amazing way to start the day!
06/21/2023

Amazing way to start the day!

A couple more, these are not quite in focus, the slightest breath of air and they move!
03/25/2023

A couple more, these are not quite in focus, the slightest breath of air and they move!

01/16/2020

Retirement has been a mish mash of stuff so far, good and better and then a little so-so. Thinking about playing with some jewelry ideas that have been rolling around in my head for a while. Not sure how that is going to work, so I'll just play it by ear...

12/20/2018

We're the lead story in 'Instore' magazine this morning...
AFTER 45 YEARS in the jewelry business, Larry Bramoweth woke up one Sunday morning, turned to his wife and said, “That’s it.”

“Oh, thank you for saying that,” replied Connie Bramoweth, a jeweler herself for the 35 years of their marriage. “I’ve been thinking the same thing for weeks.”

The very next day, the “Closed” sign went up on the door of Bram’s Jewelry, a fixture for 20 years on tourist-packed Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs, CA.

Brams is one of 63 jewelers reported in November as closed by the Jewelers Board of Trade, including six acquisitions and five consolidations.

Before they could even list their 1,750-square foot building for sale, the Bramoweths got a lease offer from a group that intends to turn the space into a microbrewery.

The process of getting the necessary permits and zoning approvals continues even now, but the decision to close the jewelry store was smooth sailing from the start.

“Larry and I were in exactly the same place,” says Connie, even though neither had acknowledged it to the other until that fateful Sunday morning.

For awhile by then, Connie had been watching the crowds gather daily out on Palm Canyon Drive, thinking to herself, “Oh, please don’t come in.”

“It sounds crazy, I know,” she says now, “but when you’re done you’re done.”

Connie, at least, is not entirely done with jewelry. She continues to do the custom work that has long been her specialty. Her Miller welder continues to be her “favorite toy in all the world.”

As Christmas neared, Connie was happily baking and reading and finishing up a major project for a customer in St. Louis, where the Bramoweths had a store for 10 years before relocating to Palm Springs.

The transition into retirement has been a little less smooth for Larry, says his wife. “He knew what he didn’t want to do, but he didn’t know what he wanted to do. It’s still kind of a conundrum for him.

Connie was an antiques dealer when she met her husband, a GIA-certified jeweler who proceeded to teach her everything he could about the business.

He was the salesman of the couple, she says, which freed her to work at her bench in the back.

Praising the internet as “a wonderful tool,” Connie says that any jeweler’s survival today depends on building a strong online presence.

“And that’s not easy,” she says.

It’s also, she says, “not really me.” It’s custom design that interests her, the kind of projects where it might take three years to find the perfect opal. “Today, it’s all about instant gratification.”

While the internet can be of help in the design area as well, there are limits, she says. CAD “can produce some spectacularly beautiful pieces, but in my opinion, they can also be spectacularly boring.”

“You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all,” she explains.

Connie urges business newcomers to become familiar with one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces typically found in estate sales. “Some of the older pieces, well, you’re never going to get that” from a software program.

“Learn everything you can,” she recommends. “And don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty.”

10/09/2017

Open again for the season! Perfect weather for doing a little (or a lot) of shopping! Hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 11am to 4pm

14k, turquoise, diamonds, and tiny emeralds....
06/17/2017

14k, turquoise, diamonds, and tiny emeralds....

New ear jewels!!! Gorgeous lemon-lime quartz drops with red tourmaline and tiny diamond centers in the flowers and drop...
06/17/2017

New ear jewels!!! Gorgeous lemon-lime quartz drops with red tourmaline and tiny diamond centers in the flowers and drop loop.....

I made these cool earrings maybe 10-12 years ago for a fun customer from Long Beach( I think she lived there, could be w...
06/10/2017

I made these cool earrings maybe 10-12 years ago for a fun customer from Long Beach( I think she lived there, could be wrong about it). At any rate, she just moved to Palm Springs and came in to the store to have me repair a ring and then she brought me these so I could photograph them....she loves parrots and I had the carved amethyst pair of parrots, so we designed this fun pair of earrings, used her diamonds and both of our ideas. One of my favorite people and jobs ever...

New drops: 14k yellow gold, pink tourmaline, peridot and chalcedony. All hinged and dangly....these just look like spr...
06/10/2017

New drops: 14k yellow gold, pink tourmaline, peridot and chalcedony. All hinged and dangly....these just look like spring and summer to me....

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Larry and I are retiring as of today, Monday, January 22, 2018. The store is closed, we will open by appointment only, please call 1-760-416-2667.

Many thanks to all of you who have supported us over the 20 years we were open in Palm Springs, you have no idea how much you were (and are) appreciated. I have laughed with you and sometimes cried with you, celebrated good times and made our way through dark times, you have been an essential part of our lives. I hope to see you from time to time, hopefully I will be out and about as a ‘civilian’ (non-work). Call me, we can do lunch!!

With much love,

Connie and Larry Bramoweth