Search Results: tennis-bracelet

Shape, setting, stone size, length and metal: the five decisions that make a tennis bracelet sit flat, move freely and look right, with current lab-grown diamond prices.

Total carat weight is how tennis necklaces are sold and almost the worst single number to judge one by. This guide works through what actually decides how a diamond line looks and lasts — individual stone size, how tightly colour and clarity are matched across the set, prong against bezel against channel, 16 against 18 against 20 inches, and the clasp, which is the component that fails first and the one nobody asks about. It ends with nine questions to put to any maker, ours included.

Anniversary gifts by year, decoded for jewelry lovers: a year-by-year chart of traditional and modern themes plus ideas she will actually wear.

Necklaces, bracelets and earrings are the three gifts you can buy without measuring anybody. An 18-inch chain suits most adult women, seven inches is the usual bracelet length, and studs and huggies have no fit to get wrong. Here is where each necklace length falls, how to read a bracelet size off her watch strap, the point at which hoops become a size decision, and the two pieces you should never buy blind.

Gold chains fail in only three places: the link pattern, the solder joints holding each link closed, and the clasp. A construction guide to which chains survive daily wear, why herringbone and snake kink for good, and why weight per inch tells you more than millimetres or karat.