Thick Braided Bracelet in 14K Yellow Gold

A wrist is not a cylinder. It is a flattened oval that changes shape as the hand turns, and the wider a bracelet gets the more it has to negotiate with that fact. A rigid band 14.50mm across would bridge the high points and stand off the skin between them. A braid twists slightly along its own length, so it stays in contact across its full width even while the wrist rolls underneath it.

That is what makes this width wearable, and the width is the whole proposition. At 14.50mm the individual strands are large enough to be read as separate pieces of gold from across a room, so what registers is a pattern rather than a mass. The diagonal of the weave also runs against the line of the arm, which is why a braid this size reads as movement where a plain wide band reads as a slab.

There are 19.1 grams in seven inches of it. That is a great deal of gold to put on a wrist, and it is manageable because a braid spreads its weight across many strands and around the full circumference rather than hanging it all at the bottom.

High polish, solid 14K yellow gold, with the DEEVE lifetime warranty.