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Baraka 18 karat gold and rubber bracelet, 7″, 12.7 grams. Diamond clasp. $1,890.00 CAD. 441-00389

Who would have ever thought that precious 18 karat gold could be paired with rubber to make luxury jewellery. High end Swiss watch brands have been doing just that for many years. Even some well know jewellery brands like Cartier, Chopard, Saro, Bvlgari, Van Cleef & Arpels have been known to use rubber components in their designs. Baraka in an Italian manufacturer who aren’t afraid to blend premium 18 karat gold with innovative materials like ceramic, 316L stainless steel with high tech PVD coatings. Italy has always been the design capital of the world for many industries. The Baraka website showcases some very edgy and fashionable designs are in keeping with the Italian tradition for pushing the style envelope. Baraka designs showcase complicated manufacturing techniques and beautifully engineered proprietary components like the patented clasp on our latest bracelet. The clasp showcases a small diamond in the release trigger. This clasp is made up from no less than 13 separate parts all working together forming a beautiful esthetic with incredible security, far better than your typical spring loaded clasp. Almost every spring loaded clasp uses steel to supply resistance for the closing mechanism. Baraka have used a 7 sided flat piece of white gold sheet that has been annealed to make harder and to supply spring resistance. This section is secured by 4 heavy rivets into a frame. Rivets are used because soldering the pieces together would fuse the parts and soften the metal. An interference trigger (also rivetted) with a small diamond forms the close/release trigger. It take a strong fingernail and significant force to open and close this clever clasp. Functional and attractive, this is the focal point of the bracelet, not something you’d want the hide on the backside of your wrist. The two other hinged sections have been crafted with complicated joints using multiple parts made from 18 karat white and rose gold. This bracelet measures just 7 inches in overall length, so it would be most suited to a lady’s wrist or slender gentleman. The bracelet weighs 12.7 grams including the three rubber sections. We feel the net weight of just the 18 karat parts of this bracelet weight around 10 grams. It is in original condition and never been polished. The gold sections display some minor scratches to the rose gold and white rhodium finish the top but the inside edges are almost perfect. This rare Baraka piece is estate priced at $1,890.00 CAD. Stock #441-00389.

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