Creating a metal bracelet means answering all these questions. Based on this array of choices, one can decipher what emerges from designers’ imagination. Yet their greatest constraint lies elsewhere, because when it comes to bracelets, one has to innovate in order to exist. And the spectrum has already been significantly explored.

There are countless recognizable creations that connoisseurs are able to attribute to a given brand or even the original model. Witness the fabled classic Rolex Oyster bracelet, as well as the more precious Jubilee with its central small curved links.

The perfect replica Breitling Navitimer with its oblique alignment. The Octo’s very large single link, articulated by means of a smaller inner section. The unmistakable Royal Oak plate with its two vertical pins. The polished plate in the middle of the large matt link of the Laureato by Girard-Perregaux, a variant on the same theme as the Nautilus…