Pick lab-grown or natural stones first, then the width, your wrist length and the gold
Settle the stones before the style, because lab-grown or natural changes how many carats you can wear. About half the pieces here are lab-grown, and their titles say Lab. Then choose how wide, from a thin line of emerald-cut stones to a cross link past 20 mm. No bracelet here offers a second length, so measure your wrist and ask us about a change before you order.
Styles: fancy link bracelets, infinity, cross and emerald-cut diamond links
Choose by how loud you want it. Most emerald-cut bracelets are the quiet end, long step-cut diamonds down to a 3 mm line. The infinity links sit in the middle, a loop of diamonds that wears well beside a watch. The cross links are the loud end, past 20 mm across. Between them sit wide diamond links, two Harmony of Shapes bracelets that mix stone shapes, and two bangles. Four chains share the tray, two of them diamond tennis chains.
Stones: lab-grown or natural diamonds in a link bracelet
Twelve pieces here are lab-grown, and every one says Lab in the title. Most of the rest list natural diamonds in the stone line, so read it and ask us to confirm it in writing. Both are diamonds, the same crystal and hardness, and it takes a gem lab to separate them. The lab bracelets carry more stone, up to 30 carats. Most natural bracelets stay near 12 carats or under. Carats on a listing are every stone added up, so ask the size of one stone, since that is what the eye sees.
Length: what length a diamond link bracelet should be
Pick one listed at the length your wrist needs, since none here offers a second one. Most are listed at 7 or 8 inches. Pull a paper strip snug over the wrist bone, mark it, then add about half an inch. A wide, stiff diamond link needs a touch more room, and it should sit still, not spin. The desk can shorten or lengthen many bracelets for a charge, so ask before you buy, since an altered bracelet is yours for good. The bangles list no length, so ask us for the inside size.
Width and weight: how wide and heavy a fancy link bracelet runs
Stay under 8 mm if it shares the wrist with a watch or slides under a shirt cuff. The infinity links and most emerald-cut bracelets live there. Past 12 mm the bracelet is the whole statement. Weight climbs with width. The middle bracelet here weighs 41 grams. The heaviest is the emerald-cut Miami Cuban, about 130. Those grams can include the stones, and a carat weighs a fifth of a gram, so ask us for the gold alone.
Gold and clasp: 10K, 14K or 18K in yellow, rose or white
Take 14K if you will wear it often. It is the gold on most pieces here. 10K is harder and paler. 18K is richer and softer. Nearly every listing offers yellow, rose and white, so match your watch. A heavy link lives or dies by its clasp, so ask which lock yours has and work it a few times when it arrives. Returns run fourteen days from delivery for a piece still unworn and unaltered, and each starts with customer service at service@traxnyc.com or 212-391-3832, which mails our return label. From the refund we hold back that label and five percent for restocking. Ask anything in the live chat, or call or text 212-872-9692 from 10 AM ET.