Jewelers Row, Chicago · Since 1975
Bracelets.
Cocktail and high jewelry bracelets — tennis lines, solid bangles, sculptural cuffs and links heavy enough to last. A bracelet gets knocked against a desk and a steering wheel all day, so how it hinges and how it clasps matters as much as the stones, and nothing here carries a price on the screen. Tell us which piece you are looking at and we will answer you personally.
The hub
Ten bracelets. Ask about any of them.
These are the ten kinds of bracelet we make and keep. Each one is built around its own stones, so what is in the case changes constantly and no two quotes are the same. Pick the one closest to what you have in mind and ask — you will hear back from the shop, with what we currently have and what it would take to make it.
Tennis bracelets
An unbroken line of stones all the way round, each one set in its own box and hinged to the next so the whole thing lies flat on the wrist.
Look at the underside. That is where a well-made one shows.
Bangles
A rigid circle of gold that keeps its shape, hinged and clasped or slipped straight over the hand. Worn alone or stacked four deep.
A solid bangle has to clear the knuckle. That is what sets the size, not the wrist.
Cuffs
A wide open band that slides on from the side and sits where you put it. The most sculptural thing you can wear on a wrist.
Squeeze a cuff to adjust it and you will fatigue the metal. Let us do it.
Gemstone line bracelets
Sapphire, ruby or emerald running the full length, alternating with diamonds or left as one solid colour the whole way round.
Matching forty stones for colour is the slow part. Ask early.
Heavy gold links
Solid curb, oval and fancy links in 14k and 18k, with enough weight that you know it is on. The bracelet people wear every day for thirty years.
Solid, not hollow. Ask to hold both and the difference is immediate.
Charm bracelets
A chain heavy enough to carry them, and charms added one at a time over years. The only piece that gets better the longer you own it.
Bring the charms you already have. We will hang them properly and they will stay on.
Pearl bracelets
A single strand or a double, knotted by hand between every pearl and matched for size, shape and lustre before a single one is strung.
A wrist takes more wear than a neck. Have a bracelet restrung sooner.
Estate & vintage bracelets
Period pieces that came through the shop and were kept — hand engraving, old cuts, and links nobody builds that way any more.
One of a kind by definition. When it is gone there is not another.
Heirloom resets
A tired line bracelet rebuilt on a new frame, or stones out of a piece nobody wears set into something that gets worn daily.
Nothing is cut or removed until you have seen and approved the plan.
One-of-a-kind commissions
A bracelet that exists once, drawn around stones you have chosen and made at the bench here. A bracelet has to hinge, flex and survive a desk, a steering wheel and a coat sleeve, which is why the build matters more here than anywhere else.
Nothing is quoted until the design is settled, and nothing is made until the quote is.
Before you enquire
Two things worth knowing first.
Size and clasp are the two questions that come up at the counter every day. Here they are, so your enquiry can start further along.
What length to ask for
Run a tape snug around the wrist, just past the wrist bone where the bracelet will actually sit. Type that measurement in and pick how you like it to sit.
A guide, not a rule. A wide cuff or a heavy link needs more room than a fine chain at the same wrist, a bangle is sized to clear the knuckle rather than the wrist at all, and most line bracelets can have a link taken out afterwards. We measure at the counter, free, and it takes a minute.
Clasps
A wrist takes more knocks than anywhere else you wear jewelry, so the clasp is the part that decides whether a bracelet comes home with you. Tap one.
Lobster. A sprung claw you press open with one hand. The everyday clasp, easy to work alone, and simple to replace with a bigger one if it is fiddly.
After you own it
An important piece needs looking after.
The bench that makes the bracelets is the bench that services them. Bring in anything, whoever sold it to you.
Clasp & safety check
A worn clasp is how a bracelet ends up on the pavement. We look at the clasp, the hinge pins and the links either side of it while you wait.
Repairs & serviceSizing and links
Links taken out or added, a bangle opened or closed, and a safety chain fitted to anything that does not have one.
Repairs & serviceCleaning
A wrist collects more than a neck does. A proper clean brings a bracelet back further than most people expect.
Visit the shopCome and try them on
Suite B1, one floor down from Wabash.
No screen tells you what a bracelet weighs, or how it moves when you turn your hand over. There is a mirror at the counter. Tell us what you are after and we will have those pieces out of the safe and waiting.
- Address
- 1 N Wabash Ave, Suite B1
Chicago, IL 60602 - Phone
- (312) 782-8633
Hours
- Monday10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday10:00 – 17:00
- Friday10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday11:00 – 16:00
- SundayClosed