Bach Jewelers

Bach Jewelers has been buying, selling, trading, and repairing fine jewelry and watches on South University Drive since 1977, which puts it among the older independent businesses still operating in the Davie retail corridor near Nova Southeastern University. Just under half a mile from Zargon Jewelers, its presence on the same stretch of road says something about the area, this part of University Drive has quietly supported more than one family jewelry business for decades, even as bigger national chains have opened in the malls and shopping centers nearby.

What sets Bach apart is the range packed into one shop. It is not simply a case of pre-made rings behind glass. Custom designed jewelry is created in house, meaning a customer who wants a specific piece, whether that is a redesigned family heirloom or an entirely new engagement ring, can work directly with the people who will actually build it rather than going through a corporate design center. The shop also handles professional appraisals, which matters for anyone who has inherited jewelry and needs a documented value for insurance or estate purposes, along with straightforward jewelry and watch repair for the kind of everyday problems, a loose stone, a stretched band, a stopped watch, that do not need a full remake.

Because Bach also buys and trades watches and jewelry, it functions a bit like a resource for people looking to sell as much as it does for people looking to buy. That combination, buy, sell, trade, repair, custom build, and appraise, under a single roof is fairly unusual, and it reflects a business that has had to stay flexible and useful to its neighborhood over close to fifty years rather than specializing narrowly in one type of transaction.

The shop is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and closed Sunday and Monday, with adjusted hours around Christmas and New Year’s. That schedule, closed at the start of the week rather than the end, is a small detail but a useful one to know before planning a visit, since it is easy to assume a retail shop follows a standard Monday through Saturday pattern.

For anyone in Davie shopping for wedding jewelry, looking to have a piece custom made, or simply needing an honest appraisal or repair done locally instead of shipping a ring off to an online jeweler, Bach Jewelers represents the kind of long-running, family-run retail business that the University Drive corridor was built around before big box stores and shopping plazas took over so much of the surrounding blocks. Nearly fifty years in the same trade, in largely the same stretch of Davie, is not a small thing, and it is the sort of longevity that tends to come from a shop actually treating its customers well over a long period of time rather than relying on a single good year.