The gold band

Berbère answers Allegra

Berbère takes up the single ring that reads as several and lines its rows up straight, plain or paved.

Laurence Graff Signature answers Ice Cube

Graff also cuts gold into facets, carving it like one of its own diamonds before a single stone is set.

Juste un Clou answers LOVE · 1971

Two years after the screw bracelet, Aldo Cipullo bent a single nail round the wrist, so the hardware became the whole form.

Possession answers Trinity · 1990

Trinity's bands roll over one another; Possession gives a ring a second band that spins freely round it.

B.zero1 answers LOVE · 1999

Thirty years on, Bulgari took up the gold band that announces itself, spiralling it after the Colosseum and engraving its own name on the rims.

Allegra answers Trinity · 2003

Allegra winds thin bands round one another until a single ring looks like a loose, happy stack.

Quatre answers Trinity · 2004

Where Trinity lets three golds roll apart, Quatre presses four bands, each carrying an archive motif, into one solid ring.

Bee de Chaumet answers Tulle · 2011

Chaumet builds a whole line on the hexagonal cell, the honeycomb set side by side into bands, hoops and pavé.

Antifer answers Berbère · 2013

Antifer keeps Berbère's rows and gives each a single peak, so the ring rises into a ridge like the Normandy cliff it is named for.

Extremely Piaget answers Macri · 2014

Extremely Piaget takes up gold engraved until it reads as cloth, chasing its cuffs like silk or bark.

Fantina answers Elsa Peretti Bone Cuff · 2020

Fantina takes up the open cuff with no clasp in sight, one poured line of gold tapering to a point.

Sculpted Cable answers The Cable Collection · 2023

Forty years on, the round helix is pressed into low relief, a row of polished gold waves laid side by side.

Pomellato Together answers Trinity · 2023

Together pares the joined rings down to two gold ellipses and one link, worn turned to the front or hidden behind the finger.