Four months. One stone. One band.
The Aanya solitaire began with a stone that had been waiting for the right setting for almost two years. A 2.04 carat cushion, F colour, VVS1, sourced through one of our oldest Antwerp partners and brought to Mumbai uncut, then cut here over six weeks by a master we have worked with for eleven years.
The commission came from a couple in Bandra in early 2024. They had been engaged for two years already and had decided they wanted a ring before the wedding rather than at the proposal. "We don't want a ring that looks like everyone else's," she told us at the first meeting. "We want one that looks like us."
The brief was unusual: she wanted a setting that was structural rather than decorative. No pavé, no halo, no surrounding stones. Just the centre piece and a band that could carry it. We sketched twelve options over three sittings. The one that won was the simplest — a six-prong cathedral, polished mirror-bright, on a band 1.8mm wide. It looked, in her words, "like the stone was floating."
The ring was hand-forged over six weeks in our Bandra studio by Vikrant — our master jeweller of fourteen years — and finished by Saanvi herself, who insisted on doing the final polish.
It was delivered in March 2024. They wear it daily.