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The Bench Jewellery Store
About The Bench Jewellery Store
An owner-run jeweller, in the blocks that have been Chilliwack's centre since before the malls.
The Bench Jewellery Store is listed in Chilliwack Proper, in the old grid where the city's jewellery trade has stayed put while most other kinds of retail moved out to the malls. Jewellers are one of the few categories where that is true, and it is not sentiment that kept them there.
The reason is repair. Resizing, restringing, watch work, stone setting and turning an inherited piece into something wearable are jobs a display case cannot do, and they are what keeps several shops around Five Corners and along Wellington Avenue in business rather than in a shopping centre.
Jewellery is an awkward thing to shop for at a distance, and this record does less than most to help with that. There is no phone number, no website and no street address, only the neighbourhood and a postal code that will drop a map into the downtown core. Nothing states whether the shop makes pieces, repairs them, sells finished stock or does all three, and this page will not guess on its behalf. The category listing gives the rest of the local field, including a smaller cluster in Sardis that serves the newer housing at the south end.
One thing genuinely worth knowing about buying jewellery in this city is that a few independent makers work out of studios rather than shopfronts, selling by appointment or through local markets. If you want something made rather than something bought, the shopfronts are only part of the picture. For a repair the downtown blocks are the obvious starting point, and walking them beats searching, since the shops sit close enough together to compare in an afternoon. Take the piece with you when you go. Anyone doing this work will want it in the hand before quoting, and what can be done with it is rarely settled over a phone.
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In the Chilliwack Proper neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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