Our Story

A vision carried from Udaipur, shaped in Chennai.

Half a century of jewellery making, told in the way it actually happened — slowly, with conviction, and one decision at a time.

In the early 1970s, Gyanmal Jain boarded a train from Udaipur with nothing in his pockets and a single, unreasonable belief — that a new city would let him build something of his own.

Chennai, then a quiet southern capital far from the markets he knew, did not make it easy. He worked in financing and other small ventures, learning the city the way migrants always do — by listening, by patience, by saying yes to the next thing.

Jewellery, when it came, came as a quiet fascination. He began informally, the way most jewellers of his generation did, before the trade was organised by paperwork and shopfronts.

The night that turned silver into gold.

Originally, the business was meant to be silver. The samples were ordered, the manufacturing arranged. But when the finished articles arrived — heavy, bulky, occupying more room than they earned — something shifted overnight. By morning the decision was made. Gold, not silver. Smaller in size, richer in meaning, truer to what he wanted to make.

In 1991, the work was formalised under a single name: RK Jewellers.

The unfashionable principle.

From the first ornament to the latest, one principle has not moved: quality over quantity. In a manufacturing space that has only grown more crowded, more mechanised, more pressured to ship faster — RK Jewellers has stayed deliberately on the slower side of the line.

Today, leading retailers across Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana count us among their trusted manufacturers. The reason, we believe, is simple: when a piece carries our name, it has been finished by a hand that cared.

A second generation, a wider canvas.

In 2006, Vishwas Jain completed an MBA at Coventry, England. Rather than return home immediately, he took a longer route into the trade — one his father had taken instinctively, and which the next generation could now take by design.

He travelled to Antwerp, the world's diamond capital, and trained at HRD — studying diamonds and precious stones in the city that has graded them for centuries. Theory alone was never going to be enough. He followed it with an eighteen-month internship at a jewellery company, learning the unglamorous work that runs underneath the craft: how to procure, how to manufacture, how to read a karigar's bench, how to spot the difference between a piece that is finished and a piece that is only complete.

In 2008, he joined RK Jewellers.

From a single workshop to a group of interests.

Under the second generation, the family's work has steadily diversified. The jewellery business — still its soul — now sits alongside interests in financial markets, financing, and real estate. Each vertical is run with the same instinct that defined the first chapter: a long view, a careful hand, and a refusal to grow faster than judgement allows.

Vishwas single-handedly oversees these other verticals, bringing a financial acumen and an analytical depth that has let the group expand without losing its centre.

Four verticals. One philosophy.

Jewellery

The original trade. Handcrafted gold, B2B manufacturing, retailer relationships across South India.

Financial Markets

Active participation in the markets, led with the same patience that defines the workshop.

Financing

A return to the founder's earliest line of work — extended now with experience, structure and scale.

Real Estate

Long-horizon investments in property, treated as a craft of their own.

A timeline, briefly told.

Early 1970s

Gyanmal Jain arrives in Chennai from Udaipur.

1975

The jewellery work begins, informally, in a city still finding its rhythm.

1991

RK Jewellers is formally established after the silver-to-gold pivot.

2006

Vishwas Jain completes his MBA at Coventry, UK.

2007

Trains at HRD Antwerp; interns in jewellery manufacturing.

2008

Vishwas joins RK Jewellers — the second generation begins.

Today

A diversified group across jewellery, finance, financing & real estate.

The few things we don't compromise on.

Hand over machine.

Where the hand can do it better, the hand does it. Always.

One standard.

The same finish for the smallest order as the largest.

Long relationships.

We'd rather earn a retailer for a decade than a season.

Quiet over loud.

Our pieces speak. We try not to.