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Brutalist Bracelets

Six heavy bracelets in 925 sterling silver, 16.7 to 130.3 grams. BLADE links assembled on copper pins, from Rp 7,660,000. Made to order in Bali by STRUGA.

About this section

Mass on the wrist — the BRUTALISM take on a bracelet.

  • Six bracelets, 16.7 – 130.3 grams — a factor of nearly eight
  • Weight is the specification: everything else matters less than the grams
  • Massive Carabiner #2 Big closures; Mini Links V.2 uses a toggle
  • Prices: Rp 7,660,000 – 30,120,000 (≈ $430)

Six bracelets, from 16.7 to 130.3 grams. That is a factor of nearly eight, and on the wrist it is the difference between a piece you forget and one you are aware of every time you move your arm.

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Weight is the specification

Prices run from Rp 7,660,000 to Rp 30,120,000, and everything else — form, family, finish — matters less than the number of grams.

Brutalist here means mass, not the BRUTALISM family

None of these six belongs to BRUTALISM, the ring family built on Soviet brutalist architecture. Brutalist here describes what the bracelets do: heavy modules, flat planes, visible joints, nothing decorative.

Four of the six carry BLADE, the second form of the brand. One is EXPERIMENTAL, the family where STRUGA works outside its own conventions. One belongs to MOSAIC and SIGNATURE ASYMMETRIC at once, because it joins silver with carbon.

How the links are built

BLADE began with a chain link made in a CNC aesthetic: even planes, as if cut from sheet material. The link itself is assembled from two halves on copper pins and soldered into one whole.

That construction is why a BLADE link holds its edge instead of rounding off with wear, and why the heavy bracelets here hang the way they do.

Mini and Big

Mini Links and Big Links are one form in two sizes. Mini go into lighter bracelets, chains and chokers; Big into large bracelets and massive chokers.

Most of them close with a massive Carabiner #2 Big, but not all: the Mini Links V.2 uses a toggle clasp instead, which is part of why it is the lightest bracelet in the selection at 17 grams.

Living with a heavy bracelet

The first days you feel it constantly. After that it becomes background, until you take it off and your arm feels wrong.

Silver darkens in the joints between links and stays bright on the faces, so the structure of the chain becomes more legible over a year rather than less. This is the piece where patina does the most visible work.

Sizing

Measure your wrist and add room for the bracelet to move. A heavy link bracelet should sit loose enough to slide, because a tight fit on 95 grams is uncomfortable within an hour.

Care

Cloth or silver cleaner between the links whenever you want them lighter, and take the bracelet off before the pool. Five pieces are 925 silver throughout; the sixth anchors a carbon fiber cross in a chain of silver carabiners.

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