Haut de bras bracelet

The arm bracelet is a piece of jewelery rarely used by men today.

However, it was widely used in ancient times as a male jewel worn on the upper arm to emphasize virility and the status of nobles.

The bracelet presented here is a very large silver bracelet, as it is 50 millimeters high. This is a Celtic bracelet with classic motifs from the Celtic world engraved in the cavity.

Entirely in solid silver, it weighs almost 200 grams.

The silver plate that composes it is 2 millimeters thick, and the bracelet is 25 centimeters long, with an opening of 70 millimeters for the passage of the arm.

It is the rigidity of the silver that provides sufficient tightening to hold the bracelet in the upper arm.

Silver bracelet made in our laboratory that allows you to create your own jewelry

Celtic design

Since this project is a tailor-made production on behalf of one of our clients, we started from a design he imagined and from sketches provided by our client which outline the motifs to be engraved on the bracelet.

Celtic motifs of the arm bracelet for men

We used this sketch to plan the production of the bracelet, estimate the amount of silver needed to make it and also to present a visualization of the final result to our client before even starting the work.

3D CAD design of our future silver bracelet

Once modeled on the computer, the project was validated by the sponsor before moving on to the actual implementation phase.

Making the arm bracelet

This operation is performed in the traditional way, by rolling two silver ingots into plates which will be cut and then soldered to obtain the final result.

Once the plates have been prepared, the designs to be engraved on a 1:1 scale are cut out from a sheet of paper.

The design is transferred to the silver plate by manually sawing the design into the silver plate.

Cutting the bracelet plates

The paper master saw the Celtic pattern on our bracelet

We thus obtain two plates, a solid one is the plate that will support the rolled silver plate in which the Celtic motifs are cut.

The silver plate thus cut is then prepared to be soldered to the base silver plate using solder flakes, flakes visible in the following photo.

Silver plaque with the design of our arm bracelet

Soldering of the two silver plates

Once we weld our pattern cut plate to our base plate and straighten everything out, we get a plate very similar to our end goal.

Bracelet before being folded to go around the arm

In this phase the bracelet is curved around a steel master which represents the circumference of the arm on which the jewel will finally be worn.

Then we can move on to the finishing touches.

Finishes: polishing and oxidation

In this case it involves polishing the entire surface of the bracelet, softening the corners so they don’t hurt when you put it around your arm and oxidizing the hollow engraving.

View of the oxidized silver bracelet over its entire surface

We then carry out careful polishing to bring out the shine of the flat surfaces in relief.

Side view showing the oxidized engraving of the bracelet

Top view of the cuff opening for the passage of the arm

Detail view of the engraved and oxidized Celtic motif on our silver bracelet

Other examples of similar bracelets

Bracelets are unisex jewelery whose style varies enormously depending on whether they are intended for a man or a woman.

Bracelet with Poseidon’s trident in silver

Here is another example of a very similar men’s arm bracelet that includes motifs of the god of the oceans: Poseidon, recognizable by his trident.

Snake arm bracelet

Arm bracelet depicting two intertwined snakes, the manufacturing details of which are presented in this article.

Smooth arm bracelet

Smooth women’s arm bracelet in silver from our jewelry collection.

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