Bracelets

Petros broke fourteen bracelet prototypes in his first year on our bench in Athens and we promoted him for it. Not immediately. First we were annoyed because gold is expensive and watching a grown man snap links off a 14k gold bracelet by opening a jar of pickles was not our idea of productive testing. But Petros breaks gold bracelets for women the way customers break them, which is accidentally and without remorse, and that turned out to be exactly the quality control filter we were missing.

Before Petros, we tested bracelets for women on mandrels and pull gauges and static load machines. Very professional. Very useless. Because mandrels do not open pickle jars or wrestle toddlers or type angry emails with their wrists pressed flat against a desk edge. Petros does all of those things daily and his wrist is our proving ground. Our current rejection criteria for a solid gold bracelet came directly from his breakage data: clasp junctions fail first, the third link from the clasp on the dominant hand fails second, and anything protruding more than 1.5mm from the chain plane catches on everything and eventually snaps. We fixed all three. Every gold chain bracelet design in this collection reflects those fixes. Petros has not broken a production gold bracelet in nine months. He is quietly disappointed about this because he used to keep the broken ones.

See our gold bracelets for the full gold range, our diamond bracelets for stone set styles, or our stacking bracelets for layering combinations.