Silverage Pinghai Road Store
This is where it all began — a twelve-square-metre counter on Pinghai Road that became the seed of every Horizen store that followed.
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2001
Grand Opening
On a rainy autumn morning in 2001, we opened a twelve-square-metre counter on Pinghai Road — one tray of hand-polished silver, a notebook, and a promise to make everything by hand.
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2001
First Customer
Her name was Auntie Xu, a tea merchant from Longjing. She bought a pair of silver earrings and came back every month for nineteen years.
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2005
The Little Workshop
We rented the room behind the counter and set up our first workbench — two silversmiths, one torch, and a shared bench.
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2012
A Second Generation
The daughter of our first customer joined the workshop as an apprentice. The silver we sold was now finished in-house, start to finish.
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2019
The Street That Changed
Pinghai Road grew up around us, but the counter stayed small — by choice. Regulars still queue on Saturday mornings for engraving.
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Today
To be continued…
