Stanley Guess, also refered to as Guess Werks in Japan, is rumored to have played a role in putting Chrome Hearts on the world map for bold & manly biker jewelry creations. Stanley is popular for his wood inlaid & skull motif silver jewelry. For more than 30 years, at the time Gabor Nagy started crafting gothic sterling silver, Stanley Guess was contemporaneously pioneering an identical style of luxurious silver sterling jewelry for males. Stanley Guess is a 1st generation pioneer mason of gothic jewelry.

For more than fourteen years, Stanley Guess was the designer of Chrome Hearts gothic jewelry, including the large, chunky gothic jewelry bracelets and chains which Chrome Hearts is well liked for these days. But, as people started to fall in love with the Chrome Hearts brand name and demand rocketed, Chrome Hearts initiated hiring their own workers to undertake production and shifted some processes to the conveyor belt. Unhappy with the mass production idea which went again his values, Stanley Guess left Chrome Hearts to begin his personal brand of jewelry. Stanley Guess subsequently teamed up with a client to market his high end sterling silver jewelry in the land of the rising sun, forming a collaboration named Guess Werks. Guess Werks successfully pioneered and promoted the Stanley Guess Brand to many of Japanese fans along the far eastern area willing to pay a bomb for Stanley Guess's sterling silver works of art. Today, Guess Werks and Stanley Guess have both become huge franchises sitting alongside Chrome Hearts and Bill Wall leather atop the gothic jewelry universe.