Bronze Jewelry Design · 2023
Tube Bracelet
by Jingcheng Wu
- A' Design Award 2023 Bronze Winner in Jewelry Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: Wu High Jewelry
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 14,685
- Verification code CBBB1CE629 · Verify this award
About Tube Bracelet
This unique Tube Bracelet is from the Tube collection by Wu High Jewelry. The bracelet is inspired by the simplest material: a tube; and it is transformed into a minimalist bracelet, with the help of new material (titanium), with a technique designer was an expert in. The designer wanted to make a tube collection for people to rethink what jewelry originally is. The bracelet was crafted with simplicity, astonishing color, and structure together, which gives the tube bracelet an out-of-the-world beauty and elegance.
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- Unique Properties
- minimalist design of a bracelet using titanium(black part) and gold. Titanium give this bracelet strength and the special color. Its structure is booth very clean and smooth to the wrist, hidden clasp inside the bracelet which is unseen to the surface.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- width 188mm x depth 6.4mm x height 25mm
- Tags
- bracelet, minimalism jewelry, minimalism bracelet, bangle, titanium jewelry
- Production Technology
- For the production of this design it uses Titanium 3D printing machine, metal casting, stone-setting, goldsmith, sandblaster. Using material such as Titanium, yellow gold, diamond or lab-grown diamond.
- Design Challenge
- Challenges of making this bracelet. First, Titanium is very hard to sand and to polish, secondly is titanium can't soldering under oxygen environments which we invented a tool to push away oxygen. Thirdly, to connect all the parts we must invent a kind of joint to fill in. Fourthly, change titanium to black color, this remains a secret process. Finally was making of the clasp, the clasp must be easy operated, safe enough not fallout during wearing them, and must not be visualize by other person easily.
- Project Duration
- The project started in November 2021 and finished in May 2022 in Shenzhen.
- Operation Flow
- The bracelet is very smooth and fluid by its links designed by us and tested. On one link there's the hidden clasp, before wearing it, connect the two part into one hole, and role into certain angle to fill in, when to take off, simply turn to the angle, pull the button and it will automatically come off.
- Research
- We didn't do such research.
- Inspiration
- It first came up with an idea, what if a goldsmith's bracelet will be? It must be convenient for work, must be tough, simple but different. Or, should it be a bracelet or bangle? What if both? So designer broke a design of a traditional bracelet, and form it into an bangle like design, and used titanium to give a strength.