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How a playground entrepreneur became one of the world’s hottest celebrity jewellers
Today, one of the most in-demand bespoke jewellers and watch customisers, 32-year-old, Iranian-born Abtin Abbasi came to the UK in 1989, spending his childhood in a small flat above a pizza takeaway in Neasden. A budding entrepreneur in the school playground, by the age of 18 he traded his first wristwatch and, a few hundred deals later, he arrived at his current position in his grail location: Hatton Garden. Abassi’s clients include Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Euros hero Bukayo Saka, Real Madrid’s Eden Hazard, boxing billionaire and watch collector Floyd Mayweather and a band of rapper royalty stretching from Aitch to Wizkid.“I always loved design and hip-hop jewellery and I had a passion for buying, selling and trading.