A Legacy of Gold Jewellery

Gold in an Indian household is rarely bought once and worn forever. It is given at a wedding, kept for years, and then at some point brought back to be melted and made into something the next person will actually wear.

That is why weight and purity matter more than the design of the moment. A design goes out of fashion; the gold does not. When a piece comes back to be remade, what carries forward is the metal.

It is worth thinking about that when buying. Ask what the piece weighs, ask its purity, and keep the bill.