Two materials, and no fourth idea.

Most jewellery is sold on the amount of metal in it. That is a simple proposition, and it produces heavy, careful things that live in a drawer. We wanted the opposite. Something you put on once and stop thinking about, that still looks considered two years later.

So the body of the bracelet is wax cord, not chain. It weighs almost nothing and survives water, cuffs and keyboards. That leaves the silver one job, which is to be the only bright thing on the wrist. One piece of it. Solid 925, marked, never plated.

The cord is the part that eventually goes, and we would rather say so here than leave you to find out. It softens with wear. One day it needs replacing. We replace it whenever that happens, at no cost, and set your silver on the new one.

Laconic was started in Alexandria by Omar Deabes and Mostafa Mahfouz. The workshop is still there.