The pioneer craftsman

Anastasios Christodoulou

Our Story

Somewhere at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, the ancestors of the wider Christodoulou family lived in the monastery of Pelagonia. The monastery was inhabited by a large group of Greek-Vlachs who were active in handicrafts and silversmithing. In 1912, the son of the Christodoulos family, Anastasis, showed great interest in goldsmithing and watchmaking, arts that were successfully dealt with by his father's brother, Konstantinos Christodoulos, who had studied in Romania as a jeweler and watchmaker. And was inspired by him as an educator.

So he begins his trial path creating tasteful jewelry and repairing all kinds of jargon and selling it to local jewelry stores. After the end of the Balkan wars, the area of Monastirius was ceded by the great powers to Serbia and Anastasis was forced to enlist in the Serbian army, something he did not like at all and was far from his expectations. So disappointed by the developments and pushed by the deep his Greek conscience, he defected from the Serbian army, leaving behind his father's businesses, his property and his dreams.

He then fled to the city of Naoussa around 1913, where the Municipality of Naoussa, in order to support the efforts of the new refugee, appointed him supervisor of the newly founded Lappei High School. At the same time, however, he did not forget his primary vision and so in a small workshop he continued deals with goldsmithing and watchmaking. One of his sons, Kostantinos, after the war in 1966, deals with trading and repairing watches and jewelry. The youngest of the grandsons of the pioneer Anastasis, Anastasis Christodoulou of Kostantinou, in 1992 consistently follows the same professional path with love for the object, expanding his father's then small business with a major renovation that brought new life to the store.

Today in same space but on a larger area in the most central part of Naoussa at the corner of Alexandrou Chonos the company is housed. Konstantinidis. The path set by the ancestors is continued by the great-grandson of Anastasis, Kostantinos Christodoulou , who practices the profession with love, dedication and professionalism stemming from the family tradition as well as the modern knowledge he acquired through studies and practical training in silversmithing and watchmaking, in recognized schools in the area, continuing with a new state-of-the-art store and workshop that covers every need and imagination of a customer.