Polki Collection

Polki is the historical form of diamond jewellery — Indian goldsmiths were setting uncut natural diamonds for centuries before the round brilliant was cut in Antwerp in 1919. The stone was mounted exactly as it came out of the earth: no facets, no foil behind, no laboratory enhancement. Light scattered across the stone's natural surface; the effect was softer, milkier, more luminous — a glow rather than a sparkle. That signature is the silhouette every Nandai polki-style piece chases.

What we actually make. Nandai's polki-style pieces use American-diamond accents (lab-cut cubic zirconia) cut to the irregular, uncut-table profile real polki carries. The setting is gold-plated brass; the bench process is the same hand-laid layout traditional polki uses — each stone's outline traced, the base cut to match, no two stones the same. Our setters cut and pack the CZ to that irregular profile by hand, at the Jaipur bench. It is the slowest part of our production schedule, and it is the difference between our pieces and the rhinestone "polki" sets stamped out of identical bezels elsewhere in the under-₹5,000 fashion-jewellery category.

What we do NOT claim. We are not solid gold, not 22-karat anything, not real polki, not natural diamond, not BIS-Hallmarked. Real polki is uncut natural diamond — currently trading at $400-2,000 per carat — and a real polki bridal set starts at four lakh rupees. If you need the milky-bounce optical signature of real polki, you need a real-gold + real-polki piece. We make the silhouette in fashion-jewellery materials.

What to wear it with. Polki-style is bridal-tier in our catalogue and is treated as such — pair with silk, brocade, and traditional Rajputi or Mughal-influenced lehenga in jewel tones. The American-diamond accents pick up warm light well; the same golden-hour, candlelight, or warm-tungsten settings flatter polki-style as flatter the historical original.