Of several hundred thousand Huguenots who left France and settled elsewhere in Northern Europe between 1680 and 1720, several hundred were craftsmen who worked luxury metals. Of those who made London their home, most came from regional French cities, including Blois, the vicinity of La Rochelle, Le Mans, Lille, Metz, Montpelier, Rouen, and Saumur; the minority came from Paris. Huguenot goldsmiths had dominated the local French guilds. In exile, they diversified their skills and networked with other skilled craftsmen, no longer confined by the controls of the rigid French guild system. The close links between Huguenot refugee goldsmiths, jewellers and watchmakers in exile ensured that their products were made to the highest quality and that their skills were passed from one generation to another, ensuring that even in the third quarter of the 18th century, the luxury trade in gold boxes was dominated by goldsmiths of Huguenot descent who still worked in the cities where their ancestors had settled two generations earlier; Berlin, Geneva, Hanau and London. Their skills as merchants and their Protestant work ethic led to an effective business network epitomized by the Duval family who were retailing jewellers with established branches in Geneva, London and St Petersburg. This seminar will be illustrated with engravings, ornament prints, trade cards, portraits of craftsmen, gold boxes, silver and watches from English, French and American museum collections. The seminar will include study sessions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection and will draw on the collections of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.