HISTORY

In 1885, Carolina Bucci’s great-grandfather, Ferdinando Bucci, opened a workshop in Florence specializing in the sale and repair of gentlemen’s pocket watches. A talented artisan and goldsmith, Bucci soon began to design gold chains to accessorize his clients’ timepieces, and from there he moved into the production of fine jewellery.

By the time his son, Fosco, took over in 1920, the workshop was one of the most influential in the city and the business continued to grow as a supplier of fine jewellery across the whole of Italy. Around this time Fosco Bucci also moved the showroom to Piazza Santo Stefano, next to Florence’s fashionable Ponte Vecchio, which remains to this day the city’s traditional hub of artisans and goldsmiths.

After the Second World War, Carolina Bucci’s father, also called Ferdinando, picked up where his father had left off and grew the business internationally, particularly in the US and Japan. But through all of these many decades of expansion the manufacture of the jewellery has always been concentrated in the family’s local workshops. The family has remained true to Ferdinando Bucci’s original vision, realizing that their business’ greatest asset is the tradition of excellence that still flourishes among Florence’s goldsmiths.