The stone is
chosen last
Several stages, several months, and not one gemstone on the table until we know what the piece is for.
Most houses start with what is already in the safe and talk you into it. That is not a process, it is an inventory problem wearing a suit.
We go the other way. The conversation comes first, the drawings come later, and the gemstone — the part everyone assumes we begin with — is one of the last decisions, not the first. By then we know what it has to do.
The Conversation
Several hours, in the room in Pitampura or on a call if you are far away. No sketches, no stones on the table, no prices. We ask who it is for, and why it has to happen now. Most people cry at least once. We have stopped apologising for it.
A few hours
The Story, Written Down
We write it back to you — the actual story, in words, one page. You will know immediately whether we have understood. Half of our clients correct us, and that correction is usually the real brief. Nothing is drawn until this page is right.
A few days
The Drawings
Many drawings, on average. Most go in the drawer. You are shown a few. The one that survives is the one that carries the feeling without having to explain it — and if none of them do, we draw more.
Several weeks
Only Now, the Stone
Emerald, ruby, sapphire, diamond, padparadscha — or the stones already sitting in a box that belonged to someone you loved. We re-cut heirlooms more often than we buy anything new. The story chooses. Never the invoice.
Varies · we will wait
The Bench
Metal is hammered, never cast, so the grain runs the length of the piece. You cannot see this. You can feel it, and so can the stone. The last quarter-millimetre of every setting is closed by hand, under a loupe. Emerald is brittle. There is no second attempt.
Many hours
The Handover
It arrives with the page we wrote earlier — signed, dated, folded into the box. In fifty years somebody will find both, and they will know exactly what this was, who it was for, and why it had to be made that year.
One meeting
If we cannot make the thing you are describing, we will tell you early. Not at the end.
It starts with a conversation.
It costs nothing, commits you to nothing, and usually takes a couple of hours.