Partners in three countries. About 212 people. The majority are women.
Every 25HOURS piece is made by one of three workshops we partner with — in Bangkok, in Jaipur, and in Panyu. We chose them carefully, and we keep coming back to them because the work that leaves their benches has the patience we want in jewelry meant to be worn every day.
Each workshop is independent — owned and run locally — and takes on 25HOURS production alongside their other work. We chose this model on purpose: it lets us work with teams who have specialized craft we couldn't replicate ourselves, and it keeps the people who make our jewelry rooted in their own communities and economies, not absorbed into a brand they don't control.
Bangkok is where we send our pieces for the slow work — hand finishing, premium plating, polishing, and final QC. The workshop has decades of experience in Thai silver craftsmanship. The majority of the people at the benches are women, many of whom have been doing this work for over a decade.
Jaipur has been one of the world's centers of fine silver and stonework for generations. The workshop we partner with handles stone sourcing, stone cutting, and the slow hand-setting that gives our gemstone pieces their character. Most of the artisans at the bench are women — this is craft that has been carried by women in this region for a very long time.
Panyu, in Guangzhou, is one of the world's largest modern jewelry-manufacturing districts — where many quiet, high-precision workshops produce for brands you would recognize. Our partner there handles casting, in-house production, plating, and assembly of our minimalist silver and gold-plated styles. Women lead the bench-level work.
Across all three workshops, the majority of the people making 25HOURS pieces are women.
This isn't a marketing choice. In each of these regions — Thai silver craftsmanship in and around Bangkok, the silver-and-stone traditions of Jaipur, and modern precision work in Guangzhou — women have carried the bench-level craft for generations. We chose these workshops in part because they reflect that history, and pay accordingly.
We don't run a women's-empowerment program. We work with workshops that already do this well.
The standard we hold our partner workshops to is on the material itself — because that is the part we can actually verify, batch by batch.
Every batch is sterling silver at 92.5% purity. Not silver-plated, not silver-toned. The hallmark is on the piece because the composition is in the piece.
We write this into every production order, because we make jewelry for sensitive ears and skin. Our partner workshops know that nickel has no place in 25HOURS pieces — and we hold them to that as part of how they make for us.
Both are excluded from our material spec — for safety, and because neither belongs in jewelry meant to be worn for years. Our partner workshops hold to that spec in every production run.
Where we use 18K gold-plating or rhodium plating, the thickness exceeds standard fashion-jewelry plating. A plating layer that wears through in weeks defeats the purpose.
From post-industrial and post-consumer recovery streams. The composition is identical to newly mined silver — the difference is in the supply chain, not in what you wear.
