Connecting objects to their origins, production history and personal stories.
A jewel often outlasts the paperwork accompanying its purchase. Avel Lenttan wanted its history to remain accessible through the object itself.
A woman choosing a jewel deserves to understand its materials and making, and to retain access to that knowledge after leaving the shop. The same applies to someone buying a watch or receiving a piece from another owner. Questions about authenticity, care and provenance continue throughout its life.
Avel was exploring how technology might support this continuity. Her experience in industrial systems had shown her how identification and data accompany products through manufacturing, maintenance and use. Through InspiredRing, she brought engineering, jewelry-making and software expertise together to develop this approach for precious objects.
Avel invented and developed My Memory Forever, a patented method integrating an electronic component within a precious-metal object and connecting it to a digital record.
Using the dedicated app on a compatible smartphone, the owner reads the embedded component and accesses the record linked to the piece. The component provides the identifier. The connected service holds the documentation and manages subsequent entries.
The development required engineers and jewelry specialists to resolve the physical integration together. Component placement and communication had to work alongside the construction and appearance of the finished piece. A technical decision affected how the jewel was made, and a design decision affected the engineering.
Jewelry is one application within the wider precious-metals industry.
The connection also supports authentication: checking whether the piece corresponds to its claimed identity. Its strength depends on the physical link, the verification method and the reliability of the associated records. A copied code alone is insufficient evidence.
The finished piece carries a history beginning with its materials.
Gold, silver and platinum move through suppliers, refiners and workshops. Records connecting these movements establish a chain of custody: who received the material, how it was processed and where it went next.
For a customer, this gives substance to a statement about origin or recycled content. Responsible sourcing requires additional evidence about the practices behind those movements. The explanation accompanying a jewel should make clear what each claim covers and which documents or checks support it.
Specialist laboratory analysis provides a complementary layer for suitable materials and stages of processing. It helps assess whether a sample is consistent with its declared source. Physical markers offer another means of identification in appropriate applications.
These methods examine the material. My Memory Forever connects the finished object to its digital record. Avel's approach allows for complementary technologies, selected according to what needs to be established at each stage. Refining, alloying and remanufacturing must be considered when deciding which methods remain useful.
A manufacturer records production. A laboratory supplies a report. Years later, a service specialist documents a repair. Bringing these contributions together requires a system preserving their sources and the sequence of events.
Blockchain offers one approach. Used across several industries, it enables participants to maintain a shared record in which unauthorized alterations are difficult to conceal. In jewelry and watches, it supports documentation extending from production into servicing and transfers.
The reliability of the record still depends on checking the information supplied and connecting it to the correct physical piece.
Another option is a protected database recording who added each entry and preserving a history of subsequent changes. Avel's approach considers the service required, the organizations contributing to it and the people who need access before selecting the technology.
A ring arrives for resizing. Its owner needs to know where to take it. The workshop needs to identify its construction and understand any earlier work. A useful record supports both sides of this exchange.
For a watch, documented servicing and component replacements give the next specialist a clearer starting point. When a piece changes hands, relevant records help its recipient understand what has been maintained or altered.
For the house, this creates continuity between making, selling and caring for its products. Service teams work from information associated with the individual piece. The customer has a route back to the business and the knowledge it holds.
Avel approached this as an organizational responsibility as well as a technical one. The people producing the object, maintaining its records and providing assistance need to work within a consistent process.
Traceability supports these services and later assessments of a piece. Its financial value continues to depend on condition, materials, maker and market.
A production record explains how a jewel was made. Its owner knows why it was chosen.
My Memory Forever was conceived with space for this personal knowledge alongside the documented product history. A photograph, a voice recording or a written account might preserve an occasion or a message for someone receiving the piece later.
The owner decides whether to use this space, what to retain and what to share.
For Avel, this connects the work of building an object with the relationships it enters. The technology provides access to facts about the piece and a place for an account only its owner knows how to tell.