Passage to India

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Upstairs at Taché on the 21st floor, Dhirendra Hirawat slides a flat box out from under his desk. "In India the highest expense a man has in his life is getting a daughter married, and jewelry is the biggest part," he says. He unwraps a necklace with 70 carats of rose-cut diamonds in a kundan setting with a peacock enamel motif. "This is for my cousin. We just had it made." And asked for the wedding date, he laughs and answers, "We still have to find the boy."