Cufflinks - icons of men's style and elegance

Types of jewelry clasps

March 29, 2022

Epoxy resin – colorless jewellery glass

March 30, 2022

Although the history of using cufflinks goes back hundreds of years ago, this truly masculine decoration has experienced its ups and downs – it has disappeared from fashion to reappear again and again. Cufflinks are currently experiencing their “come back”. To meet the fashion and needs of men and their tastes, we have created an offer of silver cufflink settings.

Create unique men’s jewellery based on 925CRAFT cufflink findings, so your customers feel special and sophisticated, both for a romantic dinner with the loved one, as well as for a business meeting.

Silver cufflink settings

In the range of jewellery components models that we offer, you’ll find silver cufflink settings in various shapes and sizes. By purchasing them, you will receive products made of the best 925 silver alloy, which have a solid and durable mechanism. The silver components are free of allergic nickel, so you will avoid complaints from your customers. Additionally, at your request, we will cover them with a protective galvanic coating of gold, platinum or rhodium, which not only increases the silver’s resistance to chemical reactions, but also offers a beautiful color in several versions:

Silver cufflink blanks for crystals and stones

A very popular group is represented by the silver cufflink blanks dedicated to crystals, including so-called Rivoli (1122) or GAVBARI in sizes 10 mm and 12 mm, Cushion Square, and Chessboard. Rivoli bases have different variants of the cup intended for gluing the crystal:

with walls in the shape of a tire,
with straight walls,
without walls protruding above the crystal.

Our offer also includes settings for cufflinks intended for sticking natural stones with a diameter of 12 mm. Examples include silver base without border as well as base with border that will allow you to create elegant jewery for men GAVBARI natural stones are available in a wide range of colors. We offer white, smoky and pink quartz, chalcedony in turquoise, azure, yellow, fuchsia and tanzanite, jade in green, pink and orange, green chrysoprase, tiger’s eye and black onyx.

Settings for personalized cufflinks

Worthy to note are the silver cufflinks bases for engraving and resin, through which you express your or your customers preferences, immortalizing their memories:

Silver bases for engravable cufflinks

If you would like to personalize your silver cufflinks with an engraving, we give you this opportunity by offering the engraving service – a precise laser engraving on our findings. Thanks to our specialized computer software and modern laser devices, you will get an accurate reflection of your jewellery project – an effect that will satisfy your most demanding customers. Thanks to personalization through your own text, graphics or logo, you will create unique designs of men’s silver jewellery. You will find silver cufflinks bases for engraving in basic shapes:

round,
square,
rectangle.

The bases are also suitable as a ground for gluing any stone or crystal with a flat bottom in a matching dimension. In addition, you can successfully add to them decorations of the selected material. Check out the colors and shapes of Swarovski crystals with a flat bottom. As a complement of our jewellery offer for men, there are also the separate silver clasps – cufflink fittings – swivel backs designed for completely original projects.

Silver bases for resin cufflinks

Almost any small element can be embedded in the epoxy resin – photo, crystal, stone, plant fragment. Interestingly, the resin can be colored, obtaining surprisingly beautiful shades of the desired color. Silver cufflinks – resin bases are designed and available in our offer in the following options:

round resin bases,
oval resin bases.

As a response to the growing interest in these products, we also offer products that complement the creation of an individual design of resin cufflinks – colorless jewellery glass (epoxy resin), UV lamps, dyes and resin pigments, which you will find here. Bases for resin can also be used for gluing stones or crystals.

History of men’s cufflinks

These jewellery gadgets owe their “birth” to the need to secure long lace sleeves for men’s shirts during the Renaissance. The shirts were very elegant at the time, but not practical – it was easy to get their edges dirty, even by feasting at the table. Only a rich part of society had access to such fashionable outfits. Initially, long cuffs were tied with ribbons by servants. It was a time-consuming and labor-intensive occupation, so the idea for a more convenient and practical way to fasten the cuffs was born. Over the years, methods of fastening sleeves have changed to achieve the modern form of cufflinks.

Cufflinks, just from the beginning of their existence have testified the high social status of their owner, because they were made of expensive materials, such as gold or silver. They were set with precious stones, including diamonds. In the 18th and 19th centuries, designers worked intensively on new designs and forms for hairpins. Slowly, they became more accessible to a wider society, so that after the industrial revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century, it would make a good accessory for men. In Poland, models with patterns of patriotic character were popular, for example with coats of arms, a white eagle or images of national heroes like Kościuszko.

George Bryan Brummell, known as the arbiter of elegance in Great Britain, friend of the regent prince, future king George IV, made a great contribution to the dissemination of cufflinks. Thanks to his suit, as well as accessories attached to it, including cufflinks, have become common items of men’s wardrobe and still present today in business field, but also for elegant exits and celebrations.

At the end of the 19th century, Georg Krementz invented a machine for the production of buttons and cufflinks. The result was a reduction in the cost of their manufacture and dissemination of this jewellery accessory for men. In the 20th century enamelled shirt clips were popular but since the 1990s cufflinks have been experiencing their renewed flourishing. Today, jewellery brands compete with each other in designing unique and newer designs. The first models were small works of art and considered jewels, today they are also works of art, but ones that are available to everyone.

Do you know the types of cufflink fittings?

Just as the patterns of the decorative part of cufflinks changed, so were the ways used of fastening them.

chains,
silk knots, węzły,
T-shaped clasp or lock.

Most of the modern cufflinks have a fastening system invented in 1924 by a man named Boyer of the Boyer Company. He created a fastening system that consists of an element – a pivot / switch tilting between a double post attached to the decorative part of the clip.

Today we also use:

switches with a lever mechanism called ‘whale’, because it resembles the shape of a whale’s tail;
ball clips;
or in the form of a screw / button;
as well as a locking clasp – one of the most modern ones, like in wristwatches.

Do you know what are the most expensive cufflinks in the world so far?

Currently, the most expensive cufflinks in the world are 3 JACOB & CO. projects – an exclusive New York jewellery company. Their products are promoted by celebrities like Mila Jovovich, David Beckham and Katy Perry.

The most expensive model at a starting price of nearly 4.2 million dollars contains a 21-carat yellow diamond with a canary yellow color, surrounded by white diamonds, which are also located on the fastener of the cufflinks. The total value of small diamonds is of 10 karats . The design of the gadgets was made of 18k white gold.
The second design of basketball ball clips costs “only” 162 thousand dollars and was made of white and yellow gold accompanied by small white diamonds with a total value of 22 karats.
The third design of this brand is a similar reference to sport – in this case, to the American national sport. The cufflinks have the shape of a rugby ball / American football on both sides. They used white diamonds with a total value of 15 karats and 18 – karats gold, and were connected by a chain.

Another example of expensive and interesting shirt clips is the Fonderie 47 brand proposal. Their design and method of construction is not considered typical – you can make a bracelet with them. Rose and white gold, as well as metal from melted Russian AK47 rifles found on the battlefields were used to make them, as the company’s mission was to publicize the problem of illegal weapons used during conflicts in Africa and to eliminate it. In these models of cufflinks, they used the mechanisms as for Swiss watches. A pair of cufflinks costs $ 32,000, and the profits from their sale are to be used to eliminate illegal weapons.

When to wear cufflinks?

GIORRE – Rivoli cufflinks with Swarovski

Until recently, a special occasion was needed to put on the cufflinks but today, a man can feel elegant without having a special circumstance, because wearing such gadgets is no longer reserved for great celebrations or only for the rich people. An elegant wardrobe in the form of a suit, shirt and tie is an everyday outfit for many men.

The basic thing is to have a shirt with French cuffs that are sewn specially for cufflinks or just a shirt with holes for cuffs. The way of wearing them, depends mainly on the type of occasion. Currently, they can be worn for less formal parties, official parties or meetings. It is important to feel good in a suit and a shirt with cufflinks. Such a gadget is intended to express your style, sometimes the task of them is to stand out in the men’s circle or emphasize the importance of the ceremony.

Their color is selected by matching the colors of other clothing items such as a watch, signet ring, bracelet, tie or belt buckle or wallet. So, the gold watch will match the gold color cufflinks. All base cufflinks in our offer have the option of gold plating and rhodium plating, thanks to which we obtain several color versions: yellow and rose gold, as well as white rhodium. This gives to the men the option of ordering the desired shade of shirt accessories that matches with their existing suit accessories.

The design of men’s cufflinks sets the character of a celebration or party on the one hand, and the style we want to present ourselves on the other hand. However, both the nature of the meeting and style must interact with each other, because it is different to compare a very formal business dinner with a bachelor party. Cufflinks are to harmonize with the other accessories of the male outfit – neither they, or any of the complementary elements should dominate the whole of the male outfit.

Cufflinks are symbolic signs of elegance, class and style. Men who appreciate this style of living, will definitely make sure to have this type of accessories in their wardrobe. Although considered to be men’s gadgets, cufflinks can also b e used by ladies who like to wear elegant blouses with cuffs, which fastened with decorative, beautiful cufflinks will add uniqueness and style.

Cufflinks – icons of men’s style and elegance