Matthew’s Jewelers

Matthew’s Jewelers has operated on Nob Hill Road in Plantation since 1965, when Mark’s parents opened the doors under the original name Design Gold Ltd with, as the family tells it, a single pair of earrings and a plan to build pieces by hand rather than order them from a catalog. More than half a century later the shop is still family run, with Mark and Andrea overseeing daily operations from the same Plantation address where the business first put down roots, just off Broward Boulevard in the heart of the city.

The store’s early decades were spent on the manufacturing side of the jewelry trade rather than the retail floor, and that history still shows in how the shop is built. During those years the company earned eight De Beers Design Awards, and Mark personally won the DeBeers International Design Award in 1994, recognition tied directly to the workshop that still operates on site today. Behind the 8,500 square foot showroom sits an on-site factory, so custom design work, remounts, and repairs happen in the same building where customers browse the cases, not at some outside vendor three states away.

Today the shop focuses on bridal and engagement jewelry, custom design work, and fine jewelry from a mix of independent and designer lines, along with the repair and remount services that come naturally to a business built on manufacturing rather than pure retail. Matthew’s Jewelers holds SCS certification for Sustainable Certified Smelting and Refining, meaning the metals moving through that on-site factory are recycled and conflict-free, a detail that matters increasingly to shoppers who want to know where their gold actually comes from before it becomes a ring.

For anyone in Plantation shopping for an engagement ring, considering a custom redesign of an heirloom piece, or simply looking for a well-made gift, Matthew’s Jewelers is worth a stop precisely because the pieces on display are often designed and finished in the same building, not shipped in from a warehouse. Staff can walk a customer through the process from an initial sketch or 3D render to the finished setting, a level of hands-on service that comes from six decades of doing this work in one place. The Nob Hill Road location sits in central Plantation, not far from Broward Mall and the Central Park area, making it an easy stop for residents already running errands in that part of town.

Matthew’s Jewelers keeps regular hours Tuesday through Saturday, closing on Sunday and Monday, and the business stays active on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube, where it shares new pieces and looks inside the workshop. In a city that has watched national jewelry chains fill up the storefronts at Broward Mall over the decades, a family jeweler that has been cutting and setting stones in the same Plantation neighborhood since 1965 stands out as a genuine local fixture rather than a franchise wearing a local address.