McNeillys Jewellers

McNeilly’s is an extremely upmarket jewellery shop on Belfast’s Lomard Street. My mum lost a stone from her wedding ring a few years ago and from here she got a great service and got her ring repaired. Yes, it is very upmarket and its only for that special occasion, or if you are really in to your jewellery and prepared to spend a lot of money of buying investment purchases. I have no bad things to report about this shop. I’ve only been in once and the staff were very professional, polite and helpful. If someone’s ever mad enough to put a rng on my finger maybe I’ll send them here!

I think I was only allowed into McNeillys because I was wearing a suit and looked completely non threatening. It is not that this shop is prejudice it is just that the jewellery in McNeillys is so expensive.
This is a traditional Jewellers in every sense of the word, the door has a buzzer and you can do most of your browsing from the street. I would estimate that they have sold thousands of engagement rings over the years. This is the type of shop that an old romantic would go to get his nearest an engagement ring. I am purely basing this on how traditional the shop is, as I suppose it would have a little bit more meaning than getting a ring from a high street jeweller.
McNeillys is all in all an excellent jewellers with friendly staff, I would say that the deal in big mainly deal in the big one off purchases but I as yet, fingers crossed one day, have not purchased from McNeillys.

Always makes me a bit nervous when I have to be ‘buzzed’ into a shop though when I spotted some of the price tags in here I could see why they were so security conscious.
Being in full on ‘browsing’ mode the very pleasant assistant left us to it and indicted she’d be on hand if we wanted to see anything up close (ie. unlock the huge display cabinets). The shop was well set up, well light and all the jewellery looked pretty impressive in here.
The only downside was that some of the prices were obscured so I was never really sure if I was looking at some mere trinket or the crown jewels. I suppose that’s my ignorance in the jewellery field coming into play.
For anyone serious about top end jewellery I would definitely recommend this shop with its classy stock and approach. They also do valuations and repairs so do consider it especially if you have a broken heirloom languishing in a drawer.
Pros: Top quality jewellery.
Cons: Definitely at the pricey end of the market.