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The Mossante Marquise Bracelet laid on a warm cream ground: a fine box chain in gold plated sterling silver, a single marquise moissanite set east-west at the center, a lobster clasp and an extension chain ending in a tiny pear-shaped drop.
Close view of the marquise moissanite, its two points running along the chain, held in a four-prong basket on gold plated sterling silver.
The bracelet worn on a woman's wrist in daylight, the marquise stone lying flat along the top of the wrist, the box chain fastened along the extension.
The Mossante Marquise Bracelet

Found in a crater. Worn at the wrist.

In 1893 Henri Moissan pulled small bright crystals from an Arizona meteorite crater and misread them. What he found is grown in a lab now. One stone of it sits at the center of this chain.

One marquise moissanite, prong set. Gold plated or silver.

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Where it comes from

From a crater to your wrist

Why one stone throws that much color, and why nothing was mined for it. Six pictures, one minute.

Something hit Arizona
About 50,000 years ago

Something hit Arizona

An iron meteorite struck the high desert and left a crater three quarters of a mile across. It is still there.

Henri Moissan went looking
1893

Henri Moissan went looking

The chemist who first isolated fluorine, and who would win the Nobel Prize for it, began sifting fragments from the crater.

Crystals that threw color
The find

Crystals that threw color

They flashed more fire under his lamp than anything he had handled. He recorded them as diamonds.

He was wrong, and it was better
1904

He was wrong, and it was better

Eleven years of work proved them silicon carbide. George Kunz named the mineral moissanite, after him. Now it is grown in a lab.

Set by hand
Today

Set by hand

Grown in a lab, nothing mined. One marquise stone is seated in a four-prong basket at the center of the chain, points along it.

Finished by hand
Today

Finished by hand

The basket joins a sterling silver box chain. Then the lobster clasp, the extension chain and its pear drop. Then the white box.

Choose

Choose one, or a pair

Gold plated or silver. One, or a pair. Pick a finish for each.

16 cm of chain with a 4 cm extension. Fasten the lobster clasp where it sits right, snug or loose. No size to know before you give it.

FreeTracked shipping, worldwide
30 daysTo change your mind
BoxedArrives ready to give

Questions, or ordering more than two? Email info@mossante.com

What it is made of+
One marquise-cut lab-grown moissanite, held east-west in a four-prong basket at the center of a fine box chain. 925 sterling silver, gold plated or finished in rhodium. A lobster clasp, a 4 cm extension chain and a tiny pear-shaped stone at its end. Grown in a lab, not mined.
Shipping+
Free and tracked, to the US and worldwide. It leaves us within 1 to 2 working days, then allow 6 to 10 working days in the US; international orders can take a little longer. You get a tracking link by email when it leaves us and can follow it to the door.
Returns+
Thirty days from delivery. Send it back unworn in its box for a refund; return postage is yours. If you keep part of a pair or bundle, what you keep is charged at the single price. Details in the Refund Policy.
On the wrist

One stone, on purpose

Still, it is a fine line of chain. Moving, it is one point of light.

A bride's hand holding the stems of a small white bouquet against ivory silk, the gold plated marquise bracelet at the wrist, the stone catching daylight.
The bouquet
A woman's hand round a cappuccino cup at an open cafe window on a sunny old-town square, the gold plated marquise bracelet on top of her wrist.
Morning coffee
Two women's wrists in sage green satin side by side, each wearing the marquise bracelet, one gold plated and one silver, the stones lined up across the frame.
Bridesmaids
A South Asian woman's hand holding a black phone over a marble counter, an espresso behind, the silver marquise bracelet lying flat at the wrist.
The phone
A Black woman's wrist resting on a white linen tablecloth beside a glass of white wine in late afternoon sun, the marquise stone lying along the top of the wrist.
Late sun
An East Asian woman's hand resting on the open page of a book on white bed linen in morning light, the bracelet loose at the wrist.
Sunday
A mother's and a daughter's hands resting side by side on white linen at a garden lunch, one wrist wearing the gold plated bracelet and the other the silver.
Two of you
A Black woman's hand holding a black satin clutch against a black dress, restaurant lights behind, the single marquise stone catching the light at the wrist.
Evening out

Up close, one marquise. Across the room, one light that travels with the wrist.

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Close view of the marquise moissanite in its four-prong basket on the box chain, on a cream ground.

One marquise, four prongs

A single marquise moissanite, set east-west in a four-prong basket so it lies flat along the wrist. Dispersion 0.104: the light that leaves it breaks into color. Grown in a lab, nothing mined.

Two marquise bracelets side by side on a cream ground, each in its own open white box with a black velvet interior, one gold plated and one silver.

A pair, one for each of you

Two bracelets, each in its own white box. Gold plated for one of you and silver for the other, or two the same. A mother and a daughter. Two sisters. The two of you.

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The marquise bracelet in its white box with the lid open, the black velvet interior holding the chain, a white paper bag with red rope handles beside it on a cream ground.

Arrives boxed, ready to give

A white rigid box with a black velvet inside, in a white paper bag with red rope handles. Free tracked shipping, and 30 days to send it back unworn in its box for a refund; return postage is yours.

Questions

Before you choose

Is moissanite just a fake diamond?+
No. It is its own mineral — silicon carbide — first found by Henri Moissan in an Arizona meteorite crater in 1893. It is not an imitation of anything, and it throws more fire than a diamond does: 0.104 against 0.044. The one on this chain was grown in a lab. Nothing was mined for it.
Will it fit?+
Yes. The chain is 16 cm with a 4 cm extension, and the lobster clasp fastens anywhere along it, so it adjusts from snug to loose. If you are giving it, you do not need to know her size.
Gold plated or silver: which one?+
Look at what she already wears. If her rings and earrings are warm-toned, choose gold plated. If they are white, choose silver, which is finished in rhodium, a hard white metal. Both are 925 sterling silver underneath, with the same stone. The pair can be one of each.
Will the plating wear? How do I care for it?+
Both are plated finishes over 925 sterling silver: rhodium-white, or gold plated. Plating wears with time, and perfume, lotion and pool water hurry it. Put it on last, take it off for pools and the sea, wipe it with a soft cloth, and keep it in its box.
Is it for every day, or for occasions?+
Every day first. One stone on a fine chain stays out of the way at a desk or a steering wheel. It suits a wedding wrist, a bride's or a bridesmaid's, and it is fine enough to keep wearing on the Tuesday after.
When will it arrive, and what if it is not right?+
Free and tracked, to the US and worldwide. It leaves us within 1 to 2 working days, then allow 6 to 10 working days in the US, so order early if there is a date; international orders can take a little longer. Then 30 days to send it back unworn in its box for a refund; return postage is yours.
How do I reach you, or order more than two?+
Email info@mossante.com. A person answers, usually within one working day. Write to the same address for a larger order or a change to your order. If it is a gift, tell us and we will leave the prices off the paperwork.

Anything else? A person answers at info@mossante.com