About Scott Gordon - Estate jeweler, Custom Jeweler and Jeweler and Gemologist

Scott Gordon has deep roots in Oklahoma City. He was born and raised here and attended Oklahoma City public schools. He grew up in the family jewelry business founded by his grandfather Samuel Gordon in 1904 and continued by his father Norman. From his boyhood, Scott remembers many Saturdays and summer days spent in the fifth floor showroom, in the old Cravens Building downtown, full of cameras, golf clubs and blenders (holdover product categories from his grandfather's origins as a traveling dry goods salesman). In the back of the store, where sunlight poured through the huge windows overlooking Robinson Avenue, he could be found, with a loupe, tweezers and diamonds.

After attending college out of state and a brief foray in Tulsa as a newspaper reporter, he returned to the family business in 1976, where he served fourteen years as vice president. In 1991, he founded his own business at 50 Penn Place, where he spent the next eighteen years polishing an impeccable local reputation as a broker of fine gems and jewelry and designer of classic diamond engagement rings, while gaining a national voice in the world of gems and jewelry appraising. He has been quoted in Business Week magazine on the subject of colored gemstones. He has appraised for a number of local and federal govermental agencies, including an extended assignment for U.S. Customs in 2007.

This year, he published an article on the current estate jewelry market in Gem Market News, a leading trade publication reporting on current value of gems and jewelry. It has also marked the momentous change of moving his office to a new location at Possum Creek Place, 6301 N. Western Avenue, where he has created a calm, beautiful, protected space to serve you. Much to his joy, there is a towering window, with daylight pouring in once more.

The heart of Scott's practice is gemology and appraising. It is much more than a business, truly it is a calling that embodies the notion of service, which requires lifelong commitment to the study of these fields and to how they are most ethically applied to the needs of the people who come to him.