A family atelier for people who read the report.
Paavan Gems began in 1998 with one polishing wheel and a rented desk at the old bourse. Three generations later, the wheel is still turning — and the desks are ours.
The bench, floor 14, BKC · 2024
Three generations,
one polishing wheel.
Kanaiyalal Shah opened Paavan Gems in 1998 with a single bruting wheel and a rented desk at the old Prasad Chambers. The rule from day one was small — never sell a stone you would not put in your daughter's ring.
His son Nikhil took the atelier into the Bharat Diamond Bourse in 2013 and added the grading room. His daughter Ishita, GIA-graduated in 2019, runs the coloured-stone desk and the client viewings. The polishing wheel from 1998 still sits by the window on the 14th floor.
Everything else has been added slowly — the Sarine scanner in 2016, the light rig in 2020, the private viewing room in 2023. The rule from day one has not moved.
Four values, in plain words.
We do not have a brand promise. We have four operating rules, and if any of them slips, the stone does not leave the vault.
Trust
A price with the working shown, a report that arrives before the invoice, and a name attached to every stone.
Purity
VS1 or better on the loose floor. Nothing enhanced, nothing filled, nothing quietly rebranded.
Certification
GIA, IGI or HRD on every stone above half a carat. The report and the stone shipped together, always.
Craftsmanship
The rough, the plan, the cut and the polish — one house, four hands, one signature on the card.
Rough with a name and a mine attached.
We buy Kimberley-certified rough from a shortlist of suppliers we have known for over a decade. Every parcel arrives with a full audit chain; every audit chain gets cross-checked before the rough enters the vault.
Three sets of eyes before a stone ships.
Cutter, grader and director each look at every finished stone against its independent report. If any one of the three has a question, the stone stays in the vault until it is answered.
"Shaping precious to priceless — a family motto, not a slogan."
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