• Store your kada in the velvet pouch when not wearing it – direct contact with hard surfaces over time can create micro-scratches on the mirror-polished arc.
• The steel core is built for daily life – shower with it, wear it to the gym, sleep in it if you choose. What it cannot tolerate is prolonged submersion in chlorinated water. Remove before swimming pools and hot tubs.
• After heavy sweat or workout, wipe the bracelet with a soft dry microfibre cloth. This preserves the 22K gold finish and keeps the engraving detail on the disc clean and defined.
• Never use abrasive cleaners, toothpaste, silver polish, or ultrasonic machines on the piece – these strip the gold plating. A damp cloth with a drop of mild soap is the deepest clean it will ever need.
• Avoid spraying perfume or cologne directly onto the bracelet. Apply your fragrance first, let it dry, then wear the piece. Alcohol in perfumes is the most common cause of early gold plating wear.

For Pendants

• The chain is as important as the pendant – clasp and unclasp from the hook, never pull the chain over your head. Repeated stretching weakens the links at the connector points over time.
• When you are not wearing the pendant, hang it or lay it flat in the pouch. Do not coil it tightly or let it sit tangled — the box chain links interlock under pressure and can become difficult to separate without damage.
• The open-frame pendant (Raghunath) and the coin pendant (Bajrang) both have fine engraving detail. Clean the disc gently with a soft bristle brush – a clean soft toothbrush works — to remove any dust or oil that settles in the engraved lines. This keeps the Devanagari script and deity face sharp and visible.
• The 22K gold plating on the chain and disc will last years with normal wear. The one thing that accelerates plating wear faster than anything else: sleeping with the pendant tangled in fabric. If you wear it to sleep, tuck it inside your clothing so it rests against skin, not against cotton or synthetic fabric.
• Do not store alongside other metal jewellery — silver pieces especially. Different metals in contact cause galvanic corrosion, which dulls the gold finish permanently.