Fine Handmade 9ct Gold Bracelet. A close look at the link work on the above bracelet shows the piece to be handcrafted. Linkage such as this is impossible to produce by machine. Each link is a length of 9ct Gold 0.5mm round wire crossed over to create a figure-of-eight, the ends turned at the waist and carefully soldered. The work is precise, neat, the craft of a patient, experienced bench jeweller. These days no bench jeweller in the affluent West capable of such work would contemplate creating such a chain: too time-consuming; and even in India, itself increasingly affluent, it has become difficult to find a Gold worker both capable and willing.
The design is early Arts and Crafts, English late 1800s, one of the many from that movement aimed at artisans reacting against mass production, wanting the satisfaction of producing items of beauty by hand.