Lienhard Fine Jewellery

Lienhard Fine Jewellery runs two small shops on opposite sides of the Limmat valley, one in Baden's old town and one in Wettingen, and between them they cover most of what a couple settling in the region might need on the way to a wedding: engagement rings, wedding bands, resizing, and a straightforward way to sell unwanted gold before an onward move.

The business has more history behind it than either shop's age suggests. The Lienhard family has traded in jewellery, coins, and antiques since 1920, and current owner Simon Lienhard is the fourth generation to run it. He opened the original shop on Landstrasse in Wettingen in 2009, trained as a merchant and tourism specialist, and later added a qualification in gemmology. The Baden branch, at Rathausgasse 24 near the Stadtturm, followed in 2021, in a retail unit that had previously housed a RE/MAX estate agency and, before that, a furniture shop.

The Baden shop is the one to visit for an actual ring. It carries diamond, gemstone, gold, and silver jewellery in what the company itself describes as the mid to upper price segment, alongside a small selection of watches. The brand list includes Palido Fine Jewels, Diamond Group, Silhouette, Manu Schmuck, Atlantic Watches, and Edox Swiss Watches, plus Gyr Edelmetalle AG's Alliance-Ringe collection: wedding bands the maker markets as 100 percent Swiss-made, produced in the Neuchâtel Jura by the Zug-based Gyr Edelmetalle from recycled Oekogold. Lienhard's own marketing names both Trauringe and Verlobungsringe (wedding bands and engagement rings) specifically, with individual consultation rather than an off-the-shelf pick.

One detail worth knowing before you commit to the Alliance-Ringe line specifically: Gyr Edelmetalle stopped manufacturing it as of 28 February 2026, after launching the range in 2018 with 297 references. What remains is being sold through as a clearance rather than restocked, so ask the shop directly whether your preferred width, metal, and size combination is still available rather than assuming it is.

Wettingen works differently. It leans toward numismatics and precious metals rather than finished jewellery: investment and collector coins, plus a wider range of bars and precious-metal products through the shop's partner company, Edle Metalle AG, based at the same address. If you are weighing gold as an investment alongside a ring purchase, or you have inherited coins to have assessed, that is the location for it. Larger quantities and full collections for sale are also handled preferentially in Wettingen rather than Baden, and the shop mentions parking directly on site there, which the Baden branch, tucked into an old-town lane, does not offer.

What stands out

Both shops buy as well as sell, and the buying side is transparent about method even where it does not publish figures: gold, silver, platinum, and palladium are valued against weight, fineness, and the current metal price rather than a flat in-store offer. Lienhard Fine Jewellery is registered with Switzerland's federal precious metals control office, which is what allows it to trade in used precious metals at all, a detail most small jewellers do not bother stating on their own site.

The Baden shop also runs its own repair atelier for broken pearl and stone necklaces, alongside outsourced work for resizing and stone setting through partner goldsmiths, and battery changes for watches. Its gemstone stock runs to around 100 different stone types by the company's own count, a reasonable range for a shop this size.

How it's organised and who it suits

Neither shop requires an appointment. Opening hours are identical at both locations: Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 12:00 and 13:30 to 18:00, and Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00, with nothing published for Sunday or Monday, so plan a visit accordingly. That walk-in policy is convenient if your schedule is already full of the other logistics of a move to Switzerland, but it also means the site gives you little to go on before you go: no price list, no lead times for a custom order or a resize, and nothing about shipping or export if you plan to buy here and later leave the country. The site itself is German only, with no English toggle and no mention of English-language consultations, so if you'll need the whole process handled in English, it's worth phoning ahead to confirm before making the trip out from Zürich.

None of that is unusual for a family shop this size, and it's a fair trade for what you do get in return: a fourth-generation jeweller who trained specifically in gemmology, a genuine wedding-band line made in Switzerland, and a buying side that will take unwanted gold or an inherited coin collection off your hands with a transparent, weight-based method rather than a guess. Baden and Wettingen both sit a reasonable train ride out from central Zürich, which keeps this squarely in the "worth the trip if you're already on the west side of the agglomeration" category rather than a first stop for someone based in the city centre. If you drive instead, Wettingen is the easier of the two to reach, given the parking right by the shop.

Customer-facing material from the shop also points to discretion and documentation as selling points: personal, discreet consultations and clearly itemised paperwork on both buying and selling transactions, alongside market-based pricing. For a jewellery and precious-metals shop, where trust in how a valuation was reached matters as much as the final number, that emphasis lines up with what the site actually publishes about its buy-back method.

Verdict

Lienhard Fine Jewellery earns its place here on specificity rather than scale: it names an actual Swiss-made wedding-band line by brand, states plainly how it prices a metal buy-back, and backs the jewellery side with an owner who holds a genuine gemmology qualification rather than a general sales background. The caveats are practical rather than serious: confirm English is available before you go, expect to discuss price and timeline in person rather than online, and check current stock on the Alliance-Ringe range given that its maker has stopped producing it. For a couple settled on the Limmat valley side of the region who want a real jeweller rather than a shopping-centre counter, it's worth the trip.