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Serrure bangle in brushed yellow gold: a slim open band whose flattened end forms a keyhole-shaped clasp, on a white ground.
Image © dinh van

dinh van · 1975

Serrure

A bangle of springy gold wire, one end flattened by a hammer stroke into a clasp shaped like a lock.

From €3,200on the dinh van site, October 2026

Introduced
1975
Designer
Jean Dinh Van
Idea
The screw and the bolt, the gold band
School
Place Vendôme
Materials
yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond
Moves
opens

Serrure at dinh van

The story

In 1975 Jean Dinh Van set out to make the perfect bangle, plain and free of any mechanism. He worked the gold by hand until it was supple enough to open and stiff enough to keep its shape, then flattened one end and cut a clasp that recalls a lock. The lock reappeared a year later in the Menottes.

The ladder

  1. Entry Bracelet Serrure Jonc, or jaune et diamant €3,200
  2. Signature Bracelet Serrure, or jaune 18 carats brossé €5,900
  3. Top of line Bracelet Serrure Carrée, or jaune et diamant €7,990

Prices as published by dinh van in euros, October 2026.

Lineage

  • Menottes dinh van bracelet: two interlocking yellow-gold half-rings on a knotted black cord, on a white ground.

    Answered by · 1976

    Menottes dinh van, dinh van (1976)

    A year after the lock-clasp bangle, Jean Dinh Van let the fastening take over: two half-rings hooked like handcuffs.

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