Education

Understand it before you choose it.

Fine jewelry is sold with a lot of vocabulary and not much explanation. This is the plain version, what the terms mean, what actually changes the price, and how a piece is put together. Read what you need and skip the rest.

The Guides

Eight subjects, each answered in full on its own page, ordered from the first question to the last. Start wherever yours is.

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Why Lab-Grown Diamonds

The case without the sustainability pitch. Chemically identical to natural, independently certified, and what it frees up in the rest of the piece.

Read the guide → Comparison

Lab-Grown vs Natural

The two set side by side on composition, formation, certification, price, and resale. Where they are identical, and where they genuinely are not.

Read the guide → Stones

Diamond Guide

Cut, color, clarity, and carat, explained by what each one actually changes. Includes a carat-to-size chart showing what a weight looks like worn.

Read the guide → Certification

Certification & Authenticity

What an IGI or SGL report grades, how to verify it against the lab's own database, and how the gold is confirmed separately by BIS hallmark.

Read the guide → Metals

Metal & Purity Guide

Why 9K, 14K, and 18K wear differently, where gold tone comes from, why white gold looks identical at every purity, and how platinum differs.

Read the guide → Making

Craftsmanship

Idea, form, material, craft. How a piece moves from a drawing to casting, setting, and hand-finishing, and the sourcing standard a stone clears first.

Read the guide → Fit

Size Guide

Ring sizes in US with the Indian equivalent, bangles in anna notation, bracelet and necklace lengths, and how to measure at home with a strip of paper.

Read the guide → Care

Jewelry Care Guide

Daily habits, how each metal behaves over time, cleaning a lab-grown diamond at home, and when a piece should come back to us instead.

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What Is What

The vocabulary that appears on our product pages, in plain language. Every term below is one you will actually meet in this catalog.

Stones

Carat: A unit of weight, 200 milligrams, not a measure of size. How large a stone looks face-up depends on how its cut distributes that weight.
Total Carat Weight (CTW): The combined weight of every stone in a piece, not the weight of the center stone alone.
Round Brilliant: The most common cut, faceted to return the maximum light to the eye.
Step Cuts: Emerald and baguette. Long parallel facets that read as clean flashes rather than sparkle, which shows clarity more openly.
Fancy Shapes: Anything other than round. Oval, pear, marquise, princess, cushion, trillion. Each sits differently on the hand at the same carat weight.
CVD and HPHT: The two methods by which a lab-grown diamond is formed. Both are disclosed on your certificate.

Settings

Solitaire: A single stone, set alone, with nothing competing for attention.
Prong: Slender metal claws holding a stone. Four prongs read squarer and let in more light, six read rounder and hold more securely.
Bezel: A continuous rim of metal enclosing the stone entirely. The most protective setting and the flattest against the skin.
Pavé: Small stones set close together across a surface so the metal beneath nearly disappears.
Channel and Bar: Stones held between two walls of metal, either continuously (channel) or separated by individual bars.
Eternity and Half-Eternity: Stones running the full circumference of a band, or across the front only. Full eternity generally cannot be resized.
Tennis: A continuous articulated line of stones, each individually set, used for bracelets and necklaces.
Huggie: A small hoop that closes flush to the ear rather than hanging from it.

Metals

9K, 14K, 18K: Gold purity. 37.5, 58.5, and 75 percent pure gold respectively. Higher purity means deeper color and softer metal.
Alloy: What is mixed with gold to give it strength and tone. More copper reads rose, more silver and palladium reads paler.
Rhodium Plating: The bright white finish on white gold. It is a surface coating, not the gold itself, and is re-applied periodically over the life of a piece.
PT950: Platinum at 95 percent purity. Naturally white, noticeably denser than gold, and it develops a patina rather than thinning.
Hallmark: The BIS mark stamped into every gold piece, confirming purity independently of anything we say about it.

Paperwork

IGI and SGL: Independent grading laboratories. Both grade the 4Cs and disclose growth method. Every stone we sell ships with a report from one of them.
Laser Inscription: The report number etched onto the girdle of the stone, visible under 10x magnification. It is what ties a specific stone to its specific certificate.
Made-to-Order: Nothing is held as stock. Your piece is manufactured after you order it, to the metal, purity, and size you chose.
Making Charges: The labor and craft component of a price, separate from the metal, which is billed at prevailing market rate.