Measure the wrist bone, add a finger
A bracelet should clear the wrist bone with one finger of slack. Tennis lines wear closer; bangles need to pass the widest part of the hand.
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Before you choose
A bracelet should clear the wrist bone with one finger of slack. Tennis lines wear closer; bangles need to pass the widest part of the hand.
Prongs on a wrist catch sweaters and door frames. Our tennis lines are bezel or half-bezel set for exactly this reason.
A tennis bracelet is only as good as its box clasp and safety eight. Open ours before you buy; it should close like a car door.
Mixed stones in one metal always work together. Matched stones in mixed metals rarely do.
The short answer
Ruby tennis bracelets are made to commission at Made With Color: one artist, one bench, in New York. Ask and we will pull stones in daylight and send passports before you decide. A line of matched stones around the wrist, named the day Chris Evert stopped a US Open to find hers.
Red corundum, the hardest colored stone after diamond. We choose every stone loose, in daylight, and every work above carries a passport that says exactly what it is.
Matched color beats matched size. We grade every stone in the line against its neighbors in daylight.
Ruby is 9 / 10 on the Mohs scale. Hard enough for daily wear in any setting, including rings.
Measure the wrist and add three quarters of an inch for a bracelet, one inch for a bangle.
Tennis lines want safety clasps. Bangles want a hinge if knuckles run large.
Chris Evert’s diamond line snapped mid-match in 1978 and play stopped until it was found. The name never left.
Ruby is 9 / 10 on the Mohs scale. A bracelet meets desks and door frames all day. Bezels and inline settings survive; high prongs do not.
Ruby is the Jul birthstone and the traditional stone of the 15th & 40th anniversary. We set it for both, and for no occasion at all.
Untreated unless the passport says otherwise. When a stone of ours is heated or grown in a lab, the passport says so in that word, in the same type size as everything else, and the price reflects it.
The clasp is the whole risk: ours lock twice, and we check them free at any visit.
Ready-now works leave the studio within two business days, insured and signed for. Made to order pieces state their bench time on the page, most within three to four weeks.
Kept for life
◆Cleaning and polishing◆Prongs tightened and retipped◆White gold re-plated◆Resizing◆Resetting into something newEvery page below is real: filtered from the works in the studio today, or an open invitation to commission the piece that is missing.
Client notes, unedited
“They talked me out of a bigger stone and into a better one. Who does that?”M. CHEN, SEATTLE · COMMISSION No. 114