Solid metal · No flash plating
Wear it in the shower.
Wear it forever.
Five ways it holds up
Take it off for nothing.
Most jewellery is sold on how it looks in a photograph. This is sold on what happens after two years of not taking it off.
Shower
Soap and hot water
No plating to lift, so daily water does nothing to it.
Gym
Sweat and chalk
Sweat is salt. Salt eats brass cores. There is no brass in here.
Sleep
Eight hours a night
Flat hinges and soldered links — nothing to catch on a pillow.
Sea
Salt water and chlorine
Rinse it after. That is the entire maintenance routine.
Forever
Two-year warranty
If it tarnishes or the clasp fails inside two years, we replace it.
The wear test
What actually happens over two years.
Day 1
It feels like any other piece
Slightly heavier than you expected, because there is no hollow filler under the finish. That weight is the whole point.
Month 6
The moment cheap jewellery fails
This is when flash plating wears through at the clasp and the contact points. Solid metal has nothing to wear through, so nothing changes.
Year 2
Still the same piece
Sterling may want one cloth-polish. Gold will not want anything. Neither will have changed colour against your skin.
The pieces people keep
View More›What it is actually made of
Six materials. Printed, not implied.
Every piece lists its metal, its gauge, its bond thickness and its weight in grams. If a spec is missing from a jewellery listing, it is missing on purpose.
“A brand that will not tell you the micron thickness is telling you the micron thickness.”
58.5% Au
14k solid gold
Solid through the whole piece. No core, no coating, nothing to wear off.
925
Recycled sterling
Reclaimed silver, anti-tarnish sealed, rhodium-free.
316L
Surgical steel
The post and core alloy used for implants. Zero nickel release.
2.5 µm
PVD gold bond
Five times the usual flash plating, only where solid gold would bend.
12 kg
Lobster clasp
Load-rated, not decorative. The part that actually loses jewellery.
EN 1811
Nickel-tested
Every batch tested to the European nickel-release standard.
Plated vs solid
The difference shows up in month six.
Both look identical in a product photo. Only one of them still looks like that after a summer.
Flash-plated jewellery
- 0.5 micron gold over brass
- Plating lifts at the clasp first
- Green marks where it meets sweat
- Nickel undeclared
- Take it off to shower
- Replaced roughly yearly
ALLOY
- Solid 14k, or a 2.5 micron bond over steel
- Nothing to lift — the metal goes all the way through
- No brass, so no reaction and no marks
- Nickel-release tested to EN 1811, every batch
- Rinse it and forget it
- Two-year warranty on tarnish and clasp failure
58.5% Au
Gold purity, stamped 14k
2.5 µm
PVD bond thickness where plated
3.0–5.0 mm
Chain gauge range
12 kg
Clasp load rating
EN 1811
Nickel release, tested per batch
2 years
Tarnish and clasp warranty
Start with one. Add to it.
Two years in
We went back and asked.
Survey of 1,842 customers who bought between 2024 and 2026. Self-reported.
Still wearing the first piece they bought
Reported no colour change against skin
Say they never take it off to shower
What we left out on purpose
The cheap parts are the ones you cannot see.
No brass cores
Brass is what turns skin green. It is also what makes a piece cost eight dollars to make.
No flash plating
0.5 micron is the industry default because it survives the photoshoot. It does not survive you.
No nickel
The most common metal allergy on earth, still legal to leave undeclared in most markets.
No resizing fees
Rings come in three milled sizes rather than one size and an invoice.
Two years of wear
Reviews from people who stopped taking it off.
“Eighteen months, every shower, two holidays in salt water. It looks exactly like it did in the box.”
Devin R.
Anchor Chain
“I have a nickel allergy and I have given up on jewellery twice. These are the first hoops I have worn for a full year.”
Amara O.
Tide Hoop
“The listing told me the clasp rating and the gram weight before I asked. That is why I bought it.”
Jonas W.
Curb Chain 3mm
“Bought the cuff knowing it was plated because they said so on the page. Still perfect at a year.”
Priya N.
Signal Cuff
Before you buy
The questions the spec sheet does not cover.
No. Green marks come from copper in a brass core reacting with sweat. There is no brass in anything we make — pieces are either solid gold, recycled sterling, or a gold bond over 316L surgical steel.
Yes, including chlorine and salt water. Rinse it with fresh water afterwards, which is less about damage and more about not leaving salt sitting in the links.
The Signal Cuff has a steel core with a 2.5 micron gold bond, because a solid-gold cuff at that width would cost roughly four times as much and lose its shape. Five times the usual plating thickness, and we print it on the page rather than bury it.
Tarnish and clasp failure. Send a photo, we replace the piece. It does not cover loss or a piece that has been physically crushed.
Rings ship in three milled sizes rather than made-to-order. Exchange within 30 days is free if the size is wrong.
Every batch is tested to EN 1811, the European nickel-release standard, at under 0.088 µg/cm²/week. That is the threshold used for jewellery worn against broken skin.
The wear test
We wore them so the spec is not theoretical.
Micron thickness, explained without the marketing
Why 0.5 microns is the industry default, and what changes at 2.5.
6 min read
What a nickel allergy actually is
The most common metal allergy on earth, and the standard that measures it.
4 min read
How to layer three chains without a tangle
Ten centimetres between lengths is the whole trick.
3 min read
One more thing
Stop replacing jewellery. Start keeping it.
Nothing here is sold on scarcity, a drop, or a season. It is sold on the fact that it will still be on you in two years.
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