Calcutta · Estd. 1987A Contemporary Indian MaisonBy Appointment

Drafted Across Two Thousand Hours

A maison letter on the third Karigar Edit — twenty-four pieces drafted across more than two thousand hours, each named for the hands that drafted it.

The third volume of the Karigar Edit was drafted across more than two thousand hours, by twelve karigars, under a single conviction — that the names of the hands belong, quite literally, inside the work.

Each piece in this edition carries a karigar's signature engraved beneath the clasp. Not on the back, not on a tag — beneath the clasp, where it is read only by the wearer.

Twenty-four singular pieces

There are twenty-four pieces in the edition. There is no twenty-fifth. The maison's discipline is the refusal of repetition — and this volume is, in its own quiet way, an inheritance from the bench to the wearer.

For the karigars of Bowbazar, whose patient hands have drafted these pieces.