New Release: Sterling Silver Tennis Bracelets at $99

3mm Tennis

Solid S925 - the stacking width, men and women

$99 - 30 made

4mm Tennis

Solid S925 - the iconic width, worn alone

$99 - 30 made

Caligio has released two sterling silver tennis bracelets at $99 each: a 3mm built as the stacking width for men and women, and a 4mm at the iconic proportion most men choose. Both are solid S925 sterling silver containing roughly 5 grams of silver with no plating anywhere, with individually set lab-created stones in four-prong galleries and a box clasp with a double safety latch. The first production run is limited to 30 pieces of each model, in two sizes: Small up to 6.6 inches and Medium up to 7.2 inches.

There is a version of this announcement that would open with excitement. This one opens with arithmetic, because the arithmetic is the interesting part.

Two sterling silver tennis bracelets are now live at $99. Not silver-tone, not plated, not silver-finished steel - solid S925, individually set stone by stone. That combination at that price is not something we can produce indefinitely, and this page explains exactly why.

The Quick Answer

Thirty of Each

Worth being direct about what that does and does not mean. It does not mean the design disappears - if these sell we will make more. It means we cannot promise this price again, because on a piece where the metal is most of the cost, the next run gets priced by the metal market on the day it is made rather than by what we would like to charge.

Why $99 Is a Price From Ten Years Ago

The 3mm

3mm Sterling Silver Tennis Bracelet

The stacking width - solid S925, $99, 30 made.

This is the width to buy when the bracelet will not be alone on the arm. It slides under a shirt cuff without dragging and sits beside a watch case without crowding it - the specific job a fine line does better than a wide one.

The rule that makes a stack work is simple: one piece carries the shine and the rest carry texture. At 3mm this is the shine. Put it next to braided leather, a rope bracelet or a plain steel chain and it lifts the whole wrist without taking it over. A wider line in that position argues with everything around it.

It also genuinely suits men and women both, which is not something we claim about most of the catalogue. At this width the piece reads as fine rather than as scaled for anyone in particular - which is why the two sizes matter here more than anywhere else in the store.

Width	3mm - the stacking width
Metal	Solid S925 sterling silver, around 5 grams, no plating
Stones	Round lab-created cubic zirconia, individually set
Settings	Four-prong silver galleries, open at the back
Clasp	Double-locking box clasp
Sizes	S up to 6.6in, M up to 7.2in
Run size	30 pieces
Price	$99

Shop the 3mm

The 4mm

4mm Sterling Silver Tennis Bracelet

The iconic width - solid S925, $99, 30 made.

4mm is the proportion the style settled on over decades of being made, and it stopped there for a reason: it is the point where each stone is large enough to read individually at conversational distance while the piece still looks like a line rather than a band.

A millimetre sounds like nothing and it is a third more stone. That is the difference between a bracelet you wear and one people notice. It holds proportion on a fuller wrist where a finer line can look under-scaled, and it carries a look on its own without needing anything else on the arm.

The design is symmetrical the whole way around - no centre stone, no pendant, no front - so it looks correct however it rotates through a day. That is the original tennis bracelet logic, and 4mm is the version of it most people picture when they picture the style.

Width	4mm - the iconic width
Metal	Solid S925 sterling silver, around 5 grams, no plating
Stones	Round lab-created cubic zirconia, individually set
Settings	Four-prong silver galleries, open at the back
Clasp	Box clasp with double safety latch
Sizes	S up to 6.6in, M up to 7.2in
Run size	30 pieces
Price	$99

Shop the 4mm

Sizing: S and M, and Who They Are For

Two sizes, chosen to cover the two densest parts of the range rather than to split it evenly.

Measure with a tape or a strip of paper around the wrist bone, then add about half an inch of wearing room. A tennis bracelet should move slightly but never slide over the wrist bone - that is the fit rule, and it matters more here than on other bracelets because the line itself is what is being looked at.

If you fall between the two, take the Medium. A tennis bracelet that sits tight looks tight, and there is no way to hide it on a piece designed to lie flat.

3mm or 4mm

That last row is worth a sentence. Two identical bracelets read as a set bought together; the same design in two widths reads as two choices that happen to agree - and each person gets the width that suits their wrist rather than the one that suited the packaging.

Sixty pieces, one price, and no version of this where we make the metal cheaper to make the run longer.

What Is Actually In It

Four things, and the first consumes most of the budget.

Around 5 grams of solid sterling silver. S925 is 92.5 percent pure with the balance alloyed for strength, which is what the 925 stamp certifies. It is in the band and in every individual stone setting, and because it is solid there is no coating to wear through at the clasp or on the underside - the two places a tennis bracelet takes its contact.

An individual four-prong setting per stone. Each stone sits in its own silver gallery, and each gallery links to the next so the line bends and lies flat. This is the labour: dozens of separate settings, each placed and each linked. It is also what makes it a tennis bracelet rather than a stone-set band made in one operation.

Settings open at the back. Every gallery is hollow underneath so light enters each stone from below as well as above. Budget tennis bracelets skip this, and skipping it is why a cheap line looks dead indoors - a stone sitting on solid metal has one light path, and in a lit room that is not enough.

A box clasp with a double safety latch. The tongue seats with an audible click, then two sprung side levers fold over the seam and lock it. A tennis bracelet traditionally has no safety chain, so the clasp carries the entire security of the piece - which is exactly where the engineering belongs.

The stones are lab-created cubic zirconia, cut to return light the way a diamond does. That was the deliberate trade: a natural diamond line at these widths is a four-figure object, and we would rather have real metal with lab stones than plated metal with the same stones.

Against What Else $99 Buys

Reading down that table shows the gap plainly. Under $100 the tennis bracelet market is almost entirely plated, and the next honest step up is gold at four figures. Solid sterling silver at $99 sits in a space that is mostly empty, and filling it was the whole exercise.

Care, Briefly

Silver tarnishes. That is chemistry rather than a fault, and it reverses completely.

Wipe it with a soft cloth after wearing to remove the skin oils that speed tarnish. Store it in the gift box rather than loose, since air exposure and contact with other pieces are what dull it fastest. Keep it out of chlorine and salt water, which accelerate tarnish and can loosen settings over time. When it does darken, a silver polishing cloth brings it back with no specialist service needed.

The stones need less attention than the metal - warm water, a drop of mild soap and a soft brush around the settings restores the light path. Dust in the open backs is what dulls a tennis bracelet, not the stones.

The Bottom Line

Two sterling silver tennis bracelets, $99 each, thirty of each model. Solid S925 with roughly 5 grams of silver per piece, individually set stones in four-prong galleries left open at the back, and a box clasp with a double safety latch.

The price is the story. Silver has climbed for a decade and setting labour has climbed with it, which is why nearly everything sold at this level is plated - and why a solid piece at $99 reads as a number from roughly ten years ago. It exists because there is nobody between the workshop and your wrist taking a margin, not because we found a cheaper way to make it.

Take the 3mm if you wear other bracelets or a watch on that wrist; it stacks and it suits men and women equally. Take the 4mm if it will be the only thing on your arm; it is the iconic proportion. Size S for women and smaller-framed men, size M for most men.