The Best Precious Scissors

The Precious range

Precious is a Japanese scissor brand from Seki City, founded in 2009 and operated by Precious-プレシャス-. The brand sells direct to professional consumers, covering cutting and thinning models in cobalt and V10 steel. Pricing is available from Precious directly.

Precious operates from Seki City, one of Japan’s principal scissor manufacturing centres, and has sold direct since 2009. The V10 models form the core of the current range in V10 stainless steel with convex edges.

3 Precious picks from Seki City in V10 steel

1. Precious V10 Professional Cutting Scissors. The Precious V10 cutting scissor is built from V10 steel — the brand’s own published designation for their premium-grade material — with an offset handle and convex blade. V10 is used across both the cutting and thinning lines, giving the range a consistent edge-holding profile.

2. Precious V10 Thinning Scissors. The Precious V10 thinning scissor is built in the same V10 steel as the brand’s cutting line, with a thinning blade rated at up to 20% removal per pass. That relatively low cut rate keeps it in fine-blending territory — suitable for softening weight lines, adding movement to dense hair, or finishing rather than bulk removal.

3. Precious MIN-50 Cutting Scissors. Available through the Precious retailer network.

How we chose

The V10 Cutting is the main cutting model in V10 steel. The V10 Thinning is the matching thinning shear. The Min-50 rounds out the range as a compact 5.0-inch option. Precious operates from Seki City, one of Japan’s principal scissor manufacturing centres, and has sold direct since 2009. The V10 models form the core of the current range in V10 stainless steel with convex edges. Guide prices are at time of writing; confirm current figures and availability directly with the brand or its authorised retailers. Sets and left-handed models where listed separately are not included here.