TWENTY-SIX LINKS, NO TWO ALIKE
A tennis bracelet is normally one link drawn twenty-six times. One stone size, one seat, one hinge pitch, repeated until it reaches length — which is what makes it a manufacturable object rather than a series of separate decisions.
The Tracy is five outlines in a single line: a round at 3.50 mm, a heart at 3.50 × 3.50, an emerald cut at 3.50 × 2.50, an oval at 4.50 × 3.00 and a pear at 5.00 × 3.00. The largest of those footprints covers nearly twice the area of the smallest, so no two links are the same size and no two joints sit at the same pitch.
That is the difficulty. A bracelet articulates by bending at every joint, and joints of unequal spacing do not bend evenly — the line kinks at the tightest and gaps at the loosest unless each one is cut to suit the two links it happens to join. Twenty-six seats, a joint between every pair, and no repeating unit to check any of them against.
THE SETTING
Every stone is collet-set: an individual collar cut to that outline. Five shapes means five collar geometries — a circle, a curve with a cleft and a point, a rectangle with cut corners, a continuous ellipse, and a taper to a single tip — each cut to its own depth so that twenty-six tables finish on one plane.
At 7.24 grams of gold in 14K this is the lightest bracelet in the collection, which is what the small stone size allows: less diamond to carry means less structure needed to carry it.
SPECIFICATIONS
Diamonds — 6 round at 3.50 mm, 0.165 ct each (0.99 ct); 5 heart at 3.50 × 3.50 mm, 0.152 ct each (0.76 ct); 5 emerald at 3.50 × 2.50 mm, 0.125 ct each (0.63 ct); 5 oval at 4.50 × 3.00 mm, 0.160 ct each (0.80 ct); 5 pear at 5.00 × 3.00 mm, 0.176 ct each (0.88 ct). 26 stones, 4.06 ct total.
Certification — these are melee diamonds and are not individually certified, which is standard practice at this size.
Setting — Collet, one per stone, cut to five different outlines.
Length — fixed at 7 inches.
Metal — 14K or 18K gold, in yellow, white or rose. 7.24 g at 14K, 8.52 g at 18K.
Diamond origin — natural or lab-grown, to preference.
Made to order. Two to three weeks from order to dispatch.
Bracelets are made to a fixed length and cannot be resized.
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