108 Corals, Tibetan Amber. The Tibetan meditation mala, or bead necklace, is of 108 beads, often, as in the above necklace, in four segments of 27. Oppi Untracht opines that the basic Tibetan meditation bead number is 100, and that the extra eight beads are there in case the meditator misses a few en route through, the extras ensuring that at least 100 of the inner chants are achieved. He does however grant the number 108 a special Tibetan spiritual significance.
The number 108 has significance, in Buddhism, in Hinduism, and the 12th.century mathematician Fibonacci theorized that it could represent the wholeness of existence. Certainly it is an interesting number, if only because 1 x 2 x 2 x3 x 3 x3 = 108.

The three Tibetan Ambers are old “butterscotch”, dating back to the mid 1900s or earlier, originally from the Baltic; the Corals, of a uniform fine gemstone-quality deep orange-red, were handcut in South India, from one good-sized Coral branch imported from the Mediterrranean.
The above 108 Corals necklace has been created and professionally strung in Sydney, based on the ancient Tibetan 108 bead meditation mala, or necklace, using a combination of gemstones and Gold that itself is based on Tibetan bead necklace compositions.