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For some reason, I can’t find anything quite like this online (apart from attached to this watch I don’t want).

Really stoked on how this one turned out, band is recycled sterling silver and the setting is Argentium.

So, I make these loop in loop chains out of Argentium 940 on a fairly regular basis and I’m confident in my ability to make them solidly. The links are fused which Argentium lends itself to well.

I’d like to make one in 14k yellow gold, but I really can only see how I’d pull it off if I can fuse the gold jump rings in a similar manner. I’d give myself very low odds of success with soldered jump rings as these chains require frequent annealing during production, and have tightly placed links; I’d bet good money that I’d end up reflowing solder somewhere very inconvenient.

I use Legor premium working yellow master alloy (from Rio) to make 14k gold wire (if that matters), I could use a different master alloy if that was critical here and I could source it. I’m an amateur, so no wholesale accounts anywhere.

Open to other process suggestions as well!