Pick the lion first, then the metal. For a lion you wear every day, take the small TraxNYC lion in 10K yellow gold with a diamond or a colored stone, or buy it as a set on a rope chain. That is what men take home here, and most of what sold weighs under 6 g. The big heads are showpieces, so talk to the desk before you order one.
The lion: lion head, lion face or small lion pendant meaning
A lion pendant stands for strength and courage, and for a man born under Leo it is his sign. The small TraxNYC lion sells most, about 15 mm across. A lion head is the face and mane in relief and sits bigger on the chest. The African lion faces run a little heavier.
The crowned heads and the two custom 14K lion heads are heavier pieces for a man who wants the lion seen. Two showpieces pass 350 g each, so ask the desk first.
Metal: 10K or 14K gold lion pendant, or .925 silver
Take 10K for the small lion. Seven in ten lions bought here were 10K, and every set comes in it. 14K fills most of this page, the big heads among them, in a richer yellow. The seven silver lions run large, up to 80.2 g.
Most buyers take yellow. Many listings offer white or rose, but none says whether those are plated, so ask. Karat is in the gold chains guide, silver care in the silver pendants guide.
Stones: diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald lion pendant
Buy a lion with a stone, because that is what sells here. Diamond lions took nearly half the sales. Ruby, sapphire and emerald lions took more than a third, far above the store's rate for colored stones.
A title that says diamond is diamond, grown in a lab or mined. Two listings mark theirs lab-grown, and the rest read natural on the origin line. Each diamond lion prints a diamond weight too.
Size and chain: lion pendant size and what chain it takes
Go by the grams, then the width. A small lion head is about an inch wide. A medium runs near 34 g. Nothing 2 inches wide or wider sold here in the year, so before you buy a big head, ask in the live chat or call the desk after 10 AM ET.
The descriptions point to a rope or a Franco. A small lion rides a light rope or a box chain, and a head near 25 g wants a stronger link. No listing prints its bail, the loop the chain runs through, so tell the live chat how wide your chain is; texts with the width go to 212-872-9692, and a person reads them from 10 AM ET. The rules are in the men's pendants guide.
Sets and buying: lion pendant and rope chain sets, and returns
Take the set if you have no chain yet. Six lions come with their chain, all 10K, four on rope. You choose the length, and 18 inches was bought most. The desk can shorten or extend any chain, and a chain altered for you is final; ask about the lock too.
Ask the desk for the timing on your lion. In stock, it ships tracked in two to five business days. Unless made or altered for you, a lion goes back unworn and unaltered on our return label, by the fourteenth day after delivery, minus that label and five percent to restock. Clear returns first with customer service at service@traxnyc.com or 212-391-3832, and a manager if anything is off.