TH Solid 10K Yellow Gold Round Green Chrome Diopside Tennis Bracelet - 7 Inch

TH solid 10K yellow gold tennis bracelet set with a continuous line of round chrome diopside, marked 10K and TH. Each stone sits in its own four prong basket head, and the heads link directly to one another so the bracelet articulates at every stone and lies flat around the wrist rather than holding a curve. The stones are matched closely for size and color, running an even deep forest green with a sharper yellow green flash coming off the crown facets when the light moves. Closure is a lobster clasp.

Chrome diopside takes its color from chromium, and in this material the element produces a saturation that holds up even in small round stones where many green gems wash out and go pale. Set in a continuous line the effect compounds, because each stone picks up and returns the color of the ones beside it rather than sitting isolated against metal. Against yellow gold the green reads cooler and deeper than it would against white metal, which is what keeps a line this dense from looking flat.

7 inch length. The articulated construction means the line of stones stays face up all the way around the wrist instead of rolling, which is the entire point of a tennis setting.

Verifications:
Solid 10K gold has been verified using an Auracle Gold Analyzer.
Chrome diopside has been verified using a Presidium Gem Tester II.

Details:
Maker's Mark: TH
Metal: Solid 10K Yellow Gold
Hallmarks: 10K, TH
Stones: Chrome Diopside
Stone Cut: Round
Setting: Four Prong
Bracelet Style: Tennis
Clasp: Lobster Claw
Length: 7 Inch
Condition: Excellent estate condition

Fun Facts:
One element is responsible for three completely different famous gemstones. Chromium is what makes emerald green, what makes ruby red, and what gives chrome diopside the color it is named for. The same metal produces opposite ends of the spectrum depending on which crystal structure it lands in and how the surrounding atoms are arranged around it, which is why two stones can share a colorant and look nothing alike.
Diopside is named for how it is cut rather than for where it is found or what it looks like. The name comes from the Greek for two and view, a reference to the two distinct ways its prism can be oriented, which was significant to the mineralogists who first described it because that orientation changes what you see through the stone. It forms at depth under heat and pressure and reaches the surface only through volcanic activity, which is why gem quality material stayed essentially unknown to the jewelry trade until the late twentieth century.