From Louis Vuitton Damier checks to evil eyes, these are the wrist pieces worth wearing to Wimbledon this summer—and none of them look quite like the original
It started with the former American tennis player Chris Evert. In 1987, she paused a US Open match to retrieve her diamond line bracelet after it snapped off her wrist mid-rally, and in doing so coined both a term and an archetype that the jewellery industry has been repeating ever since. The tennis bracelet, with its neat row of prong-set round diamonds, has barely changed in the decades since, which is either a sign of how settled the format is or an argument for doing something different. The brands below are working with it on their own terms, and with Wimbledon underway, here are eight worth knowing about.
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