Moissanite Tennis Bracelet, 3mm GRA Certified 925 Silver

A tennis bracelet has to bend without breaking the line of stones, and that comes down to the links. Each setting here is joined to the next rather than mounted on a solid bar, so the row wraps the wrist and every stone stays turned outward instead of rolling face down. The 3mm width is the most useful size on a wrist: fine enough to sit beside a watch strap without crowding it, wide enough to be read as a tennis bracelet rather than a plain chain.

The stones are D colour, VVS1 moissanite and the bracelet is GRA certified. D colour means graded colourless, so the row returns clean white light instead of the grey cast that lower grades show when stones are set side by side in a line. Hardness is the other reason to pick moissanite on a bracelet. At 9.25 on the Mohs scale it survives desks, doorframes and steering wheels far better than softer stones, and its refractive index near 2.65 keeps the fire up.

Lengths run from 14cm through 19cm and beyond, so measure the wrist and add roughly 1.5cm if you want the bracelet to drape rather than grip. Two plating finishes are offered on the s925 sterling silver base. White gold reads as bright silver and keeps the stones the only point of interest. Yellow gold warms the setting and makes a colourless stone look brighter by contrast.

• Stone: moissanite, D colour VVS1, GRA certified
• Stone width: 3mm
• Metal: s925 sterling silver, 18k plated
• Finish: white gold or yellow gold
• Lengths: 14cm, 15cm, 16cm, 17cm, 18cm, 19cm and up
• Build: linked settings, stones to the full length
• Suits men and women