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Skinny rivière bracelet in white gold: a thin flexible line of diamonds forming a bangle, with a fine safety chain, on a pale grey ground.
Image © Messika

Messika · 2009

Skinny

A rivière of diamonds made elastic: tiny springs between the settings let the line twist, stretch over the hand and close back round the wrist.

From €5,900on the Messika site, October 2026

Introduced
2009 — House date. A UK stockist (W. Hamond) gives 2008.
Designer
Valérie Messika
Idea
The chain as the piece
School
Place Vendôme
Materials
white gold, rose gold, diamond

Skinny at Messika

The story

Developed by Valérie Messika in 2009, two years after Move, Skinny set out to turn the diamond rivière from an evening piece into an everyday one. The strands are threaded on an arrangement of nano springs, so the gold and diamond line bends and returns to shape without breaking; the technique has since run through necklaces, cuffs and the house's high jewellery.

The ladder

  1. Entry Bracelet rivière Skinny, petit modèle, rose gold and diamonds, 0.80 ct (06097-PG) €5,900
  2. Top of line Bracelet rivière Skinny, moyen modèle, white gold and diamonds, 1.6 ct (04849-WG) €9,900

Prices as published by Messika in euros, October 2026.

Lineage

  • Elsa Peretti Diamonds by the Yard sprinkle necklaces in 18k yellow gold, bezel-set diamonds spaced along fine chains, hanging against a peach ground with evergreen sprigs.

    Answers · 2009

    Elsa Peretti Diamonds by the Yard, Tiffany & Co. (1974)

    Skinny takes up the line of diamonds worn as lightly as a chain and makes it elastic.

  • Move Classique double-chain bracelet in white gold: an open gold cage holding three diamonds that slide along it, on a pale grey ground.

    Answers · 2009

    Move, Messika (2007)

    Two years after Move, Messika put the movement into the line itself: tiny springs let a rivière stretch over the hand and close back.

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Image © Tiffany & Co.

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Granelli

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Pepita

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Image © Cartier

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