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Bespoke Gold & Diamond Atelier

Gold and diamonds, made to be yours

Designed with you, hand-set in our own atelier, and certified before it reaches your hands.

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Our Philosophy

We believe jewellery is not an accessory. It is a record of a life: a promise made, a milestone reached, a name passed down.

So we make every piece as though it will be worn for a hundred years, because it should be.

The AUREA emblem: a gold letter A in a gold ring, holding a green diamond at its heart

The Name and the Emblem

AUREA, from the Latin for golden

Our emblem is the letter A drawn in antique gold, holding a single diamond at its heart.

Gold
to endure.
A diamond
to remember.
Forest green
for growth, for the generations still to come.

Savoir-Faire

How a piece is made

  1. A hand drawing a diamond necklace at actual size on paper, loose stones beside it
    01

    Design

    Every piece begins as a drawing and a conversation.

  2. A green wax ring model being carved on a mandrel
    02

    Modelling

    Each form is refined to the fraction of a millimetre.

  3. Molten gold pouring from a crucible
    03

    Casting

    Gold is poured and brought to form.

  4. A setter securing a diamond into a gold ring with a fine tool
    04

    Setting

    Each stone is seated by hand under magnification.

  5. A gold chain being polished on a cloth wheel
    05

    Polishing

    Hours of finishing for a surface that holds light.

  6. A finished ring examined through a loupe
    06

    Inspection

    No piece leaves the atelier without a master’s approval.

  7. Six stages, one standard

    Only then is it yours

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Materials

What every piece is made of

A nugget of fine gold resting beside rough diamonds

Gold

9K, 14K, 18K and 22K, in yellow and rose, alloyed for colour, strength and wear.

  • 9K
  • 14K
  • 18K
  • 22K
  • Yellow
  • Rose
A loose diamond beside a loupe and a gold certification seal

Diamonds

Certified natural and lab-grown, matched by eye, never by chart alone.

  • Natural
  • Lab-grown
  • Certified
A goldsmith's hands setting a diamond into a gold ring at the bench

The Atelier and the Craftsmen

Surat, the Diamond City

Our atelier is in Surat, the city where most of the world’s diamonds are cut and polished. Here the craft is not a trade learned late but a language grown up with: cutters, setters and goldsmiths working within a few streets of one another, generation after generation. It is why we make here, at our own bench, and nowhere else.

Satish Chovatiya at the bench

Master Craftsman & Co-Founder

Satish Chovatiya

Milan Vadodariya at the bench

Master Craftsman & Co-Founder

Milan Vadodariya

The Collections

The house's signature work

Diamond Necklace

Diamonds set stone by stone into a line of light.

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Earrings

Pairs matched by hand to catch the light as one.

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Bracelet

Gold worked to move with the wrist, never against it.

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Rings

Solitaires and bands made to be worn for a lifetime.

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Watches

Gold cases, diamond bezels and open-worked dials.

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Chains

Links drawn, shaped and joined by hand.

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Heritage Jewellery

Heirloom traditions, made the old way.

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Gold Vermeil

Sterling silver dressed in gold, for every day.

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Our Promise

The gold is what we say it is.

Every stone is what we say it is.

Every piece is finished as if it were our own.

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