About Hildgund
The Women of Hildgund
A House Carried Forward by Family
From a downtown Honolulu bench in 1873, to the goldsmith who gave the house her name, to the mother and daughter who run it today.
Where It Began
Hildgund opened in downtown Honolulu in 1873, when the city's jewelers still worked by hand at the bench. Our earliest artisans were entrusted with official crest work for the Hawaiian monarchy, a commission that set the standard the house has held to ever since.
Hildgund Bucky
A German master goldsmith, she arrived in the islands in the 1940s with a trained eye and an uncompromising hand. She acquired the business, gave it her name, and shaped it around a single idea: that a piece should be as considered as it is beautiful. She retired in 1995, leaving the house to her family.
Shari & Molly
More than 150 years on, Hildgund is run by a mother and daughter. They work the way the house always has, one client and one piece at a time, choosing the gemstones themselves and knowing the people who wear them. It is a family business in the plainest sense of the phrase.
