What you're actually wearing.

Sterling silver is 92.5% pure silver, alloyed with 7.5% copper for structural strength. Pure silver alone (999) is too soft to hold shape in a ring band or a hoop. The "925" you see stamped inside every ARSA piece is the international shorthand for this composition — the same standard used by jewelers in London, Milan, Copenhagen and Jaipur.

Every ARSA piece weighing above 2 grams carries a BIS hallmark — a 6-character Hallmark Unique Identification (HUID) code, stamped by a government-approved Assaying & Hallmarking Centre. You can verify the purity of any hallmarked piece by opening the free BIS Care app on your phone and entering the HUID.

Pieces under 2 grams — like our smallest studs — may be exempt from a physical stamped hallmark under current Indian rules, but ship with an authentication certificate stating purity.

A few of our pieces are finished with a fine layer of rhodium — a rare platinum-family metal that gives silver a whiter, more mirror-like shine and slows down tarnish. Any piece that is rhodium-plated is marked in the product details. Under our lifetime exchange, we'll re-plate any piece you send back for a nominal fee, at cost.

Our pieces are cast, filed and polished by a small workshop in Jaipur. We source silver from BIS-registered refineries only, and reclaim every filing and offcut back into the next batch. Nothing pretty, no marketing story — just how silver has been made in this city for centuries.