| Stone Type | American Diamond (CZ) & Glass Stones |
| Weight (g) | 0.00 |
| Colour | Red |
| Occasion | Wedding, Festival, Traditional |
A necklace set in gold-tone brass, set with cubic zirconia and coloured glass stones. It is cut as a long haar, the full-length necklace of a bridal set. The design is built around a leaf form. Photographed in Red.
A leaf is the one natural shape that lets a setter run stones in a line and still taper the line to a point, which is why it edges so many Indian necklaces.
Small pearls finish the lower edge. Pearls do something no faceted stone can — they give back a soft, diffused light, which calms a design that would otherwise be all sparkle.
The white stones here are cubic zirconia — American Diamond, or AD, in the Indian trade. It is grown rather than mined, cut to the same geometry as a diamond, and noticeably more dispersive, so it breaks white light into visible colour. That dispersion is the quality you are actually buying.
The broad rim around each coloured stone is the kundan idiom, carried over from a technique in which pure gold foil is pressed cold around the stone until it holds. Nothing here is gold foil, but the proportions are the ones that technique produced.
One colourway is stocked, in Red — the shade the design was drawn for and the one in the photographs.
The base is brass under a premium gold polish. Brass is the right base for costume jewellery — heavy enough to feel like something, soft enough to be worked, and it does not go brittle with age.
Keep the rest of the upper body plain. With a piece this size the necklace and the earrings are the whole ornament — skip the chain, skip a second pendant, and let the neckline do the framing.
There is no sense in which this is an investment piece, and that is rather the point of it — you can buy a colour that suits one outfit, wear it to one wedding, and be satisfied.
Treat the plating as the wearing part. Keep it away from water, perfume and hair spray, put it on after you have finished dressing, and wipe it with a dry cotton cloth before it goes away. Stored dry in a zip pouch with the air pressed out, the finish lasts for years; left in a humid bathroom it will not last a season.
Stock on these runs in small lots. When a colour sells out it is usually gone for good rather than reordered, because the supplier moves on to the next design — which is why the enquiry step exists and why we confirm the shade before taking payment.
Checkout on this piece runs through an enquiry rather than a cart. Colour stock moves quickly at this price, so we confirm the exact shade, the price and the delivery estimate with you first. Payment is prepaid in every case; cash on delivery is not available.
| Stone Type | American Diamond (CZ) & Glass Stones |
| Weight (grams) | 0.00 |
| Colour/Finish | Red |
| Occasion | Wedding, Festival, Traditional |
| Gender | women |
| SKU/Product Code | KEYU-NAA2894 |
