Gold Bracelets: A Guide to All 1,207 of Ours

Start with weight, not with pattern

We hold 1,207 solid gold bracelets. They run from 2.96g to 89.15g with a median of 10.2g, and from £690 to £21,320 with a median of £2,410. Every one is solid 14ct gold — never plated, never filled — and 1,177 of them can also be made in 9ct or 18ct.

Those two spans are the whole decision, and weight is the half most people skip. A bracelet's weight determines what it feels like on the wrist, how it hangs, how it survives a knock, and — more than anything else — what it costs. Pattern determines what it looks like. Choose the weight first and you will be choosing between a handful of bracelets rather than 1,207 of them.

The bands, and how many bracelets sit in each: under 5g there are 33, a fine everyday piece that layers and disappears under a cuff. Between 8g and 13g there are 521 — this is where our median sits, and where a bracelet is clearly visible, sits still, and can be worn daily for decades. Above 20g there are 112, and they are single-piece propositions: worn alone, on a wrist that can carry the width. Above 50g there are 6 in the entire range.

Notice how quickly the range thins at the edges. Nearly half of everything we make sits in that 8g to 13g band, and that is not a stocking decision — it is where a solid gold bracelet is most comfortable to wear and most durable for the money. If you have no strong feeling either way, that is the band to shop in, and the pattern becomes the only thing left to decide.

The fourteen collections

Eleven of these are patterns — the geometry of the link itself. Three are finishes — plain, stone-set and medallion — which cut across the patterns rather than sitting beside them. A bracelet has exactly one pattern and exactly one finish, so a plain curb appears in both the curb collection and the plain collection.

Every guide above is written from what is actually in that collection: real weights, real prices, real colour counts, and three named products at the light end, the middle and the heavy end.

Four questions that settle it

Is it going to be engraved? Then it is an ID bracelet or a medallion, and nothing else. Those are the two designs with a surface intended to take a cut. A chain link cannot be engraved legibly at this scale.

Is it going on a wrist that already wears things? Then look at bar link and bead. Open gaps and round edges let a second bracelet sit alongside without the two marking each other. Two flat faces — curb against brick link, say — will rub each other dull.

Does it need to survive being worn without thinking about it? Curb and braided, because both spread movement across many small links instead of a few large joints. Avoid herringbone for that job: it is the most beautiful flat chain we make and the least tolerant of being caught.

Does it need stones? 504 of ours have them and 623 do not. Stone-set pieces hide surface scratching better and need a claw check once a year. Plain pieces have nothing to loosen and take a polish back to new.

What every bracelet here has in common

All 1,207 are solid 14ct gold. The standard length is 7.5 inches across the entire range, and every bracelet is sized to your wrist before it is dispatched, at no cost. If it still is not right when it arrives, resizing is free and so is return postage.

Colour is more concentrated than most people expect: 1,162 are yellow gold, 35 rose, 8 two-tone and 1 white. If rose gold is a requirement, plain holds 18 of the 35 and curb holds 11. If it must be white gold, there is currently one bracelet in the range.

Gold items are UK hallmarked at the London Assay Office on qualifying pieces. Everything comes from our own workshops, which is the practical reason repairs are simple: a bracelet that needs a link replaced or a claw re-tipped goes back to the bench that built it, not to a third party who has never seen the design.

Most orders arrive within 14 days, whether the piece is in stock or made to order, and we ship worldwide.

How to measure your wrist

Wrap a strip of paper around the wrist bone, mark where it overlaps, and measure the flat length. That figure is your wrist measurement, not your bracelet size. Add half an inch for a bracelet that moves normally, a quarter of an inch for a tennis bracelet or a medallion, which must be stopped from rotating, and three quarters of an inch for a heavy chain that should hang.

If the measurement falls between two sizes on a pattern with large links — bar link and fancy link both adjust in steps of 15mm or more — tell us the measurement and we will build to it rather than to the nearest step. There is no charge for that.

Start browsing

The full range is in the gold bracelets collection. If it helps to see the edges of it first, these three mark them out: 2.96g at £690 is the lightest and least expensive bracelet we make, 10.20g at £2,370 sits at the exact median of the range, and 89.15g at £21,320 is the heaviest and most expensive. Everything else we make lives between those three.

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