A rectangle link bracelet in sterling silver, built from flat links joined by short hinges, so it bends one link at a time and lies in an even line around the wrist. Across the front half, each link frames a rectangle of blue opal set flush with the silver. Toward the clasp the links carry no stone and stay plain and polished, which keeps the color on top of the wrist. The design is repeated rectangles with no engraving or texture, a modern silver bracelet that looks as right below a shirt cuff as on a bare arm.

The inlays are lab-created opal, grown in a laboratory rather than mined from the ground. The body of each stone is a deep blue, and inside it green and turquoise flecks catch the light and shift as you move, the play of color that sets opal apart from other blue stones. Each inlay has its own scatter of flecks, so the pattern changes from link to link along the row. This is synthetic opal, not opalite glass, which glows a milky blue with no flashes of color at all. Every stone sits level inside a silver rim with no prongs, so nothing on this opal link bracelet catches on knitwear or sleeves.

The links are 925 sterling silver, cast and finished by hand in our workshop, then rhodium plated and polished to a mirror shine. The rhodium gives the silver a cool white tone that sits well beside the blue of the opal. Because the plating lies over sterling silver and not over brass, it is a real silver bracelet from the first link to the clasp.

At 9 grams it is a slim, flat silver bracelet that weighs very little and lies close to the skin, easy to keep on as an everyday silver bracelet. The low profile also lets it sit in a stack. Beside a watch or other silver stacking bracelets it adds one line of blue, and the plain back half stays out of the way. A lobster clasp fastens directly to the last link.