Most of their products come with free engraving so you can have the item personalized.
"People commission engraving like they commission a painting, " says Nigel Beaumont, Purdey's executive chairman.
The entire process is something to behold, but our favorite component was quite possibly the laser-engraving station.
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The double-sided watch can be turned over and be worn like a jewel with a personalized engraving.
The works, including a 1680 engraving by Frederick de Wit, were loaned by the Government Art Collection.
The entire Speedmaster dial has been replaced with a sterling silver engraving of the Apollo XVII mission patch.
To technologists at the American Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing, this has a more literal meaning.
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Nowadays AMSC starts by engraving a microscopic pattern onto a sheet of nickel-based metal, to align the crystals.
The drawing was inspired by an engraving that Hebborn believed Piranesi had flubbed.
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We are in the midst of making things with it and learning a ton about laser cutting and engraving.
The painting was then widely reproduced as an engraving that became very popular both in the U.S. and abroad.
Since 1862 the Mutilated Currency Division of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has pieced together partially destroyed American currency.
Example: the 1607 Italian anatomy book that includes an engraving of a man whose skin has been flayed from his body.
Even though Thingiverse is more popular in the 3D printing world, it offers a number of laser cutting and laser engraving projects.
The art of seal engraving is a cornerstone of Chinese fine arts.
The ad's second page uses an archival engraving of a pointing hand to draw attention to the pesticide name, "Finish, " in purple letters.
Even though those understanding the complex characters are ever fewer, the art of seal engraving is still practised by both professionals and amateurs.
Honduran authorities said the gold-plated rifle had an engraving associated with the Malverde drug gang - which is allegedly connected to Mexico's Zetas cartel.
With a nifty solder-gun and his small engraving lathe he could make an American typewriter speak 145 different tongues, from Russian to Homeric Greek.
Dinah Harris, from Thames Valley Horsewatch, which offers advice on security for horse keepers, said ideally saddles should have an engraving with the owner's postcode.
Ancient Rome was as likely to turn up in a painting of Queen Elizabeth as an American Indian cherub (with ostrich) in an engraving of London.
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Block engraving may be used to print books in a variety of traditional styles, to create modern books with conventional binding, or to reproduce ancient Chinese books.
Looking very much like the cover of a circa 1970 science fiction novel, the engraving is a pleasing dedication to the art of the era of space flight.
For while Fortuny always thought of himself as a painter, his fascination with technology led him to patent new techniques for stage lighting, print engraving and photo development.
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Five of these, including projects at the Veteran Health Administration and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, have been nominated for the 2012 Government Big Data Solutions Award.
The swiveling case of the Art Deco-style watch protected the dial and offered a surface that, as of the 1930s, could be personalized by means of engraving or enamel.
This is the kind of place where every time I walked through the halls, I seemed to discover a new engraving or book or glass lamp that captured my imagination.
The blocks themselves, made from the fine-grained wood of pear or jujube trees, are cut to a thickness of two centimetres and polished with sandpaper to prepare them for engraving.
But a fitted gun that's handmade in England over the course of two years--with parts constructed by specially trained craftsmen and adorned with personalized hand engraving--is a one-of-a-kind work of art.
The Seal Engravers Society of Xiling in Zhejiang Province, central China, which was founded a century ago, preserves the art of seal engraving along with approximately a hundred other specialized institutions.
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