Dark Spinach Green Pakistani Nephrite Bangle, Natural Type A

A dark, even spinach green with enough wall thickness to give this bangle noticeable heft. Cut from one piece of stone and finished by hand, so the ring is seamless: no metal, no clasp, no hinge. Turn it in the light and the tone shifts subtly from arc to arc, the kind of quiet variation you only get in natural material.

Measurements

• Inner diameter: 60.45 mm
• Width: 16.4 mm
• Thickness: 9 mm

Bangles are sized by inner diameter. Measure across the widest part of your hand with the thumb tucked in, and compare that to the diameter above to check the fit.

About Pakistani nephrite

Quarried in northern Pakistan, where the mountains of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan hold some of the world's finest modern nephrite. The deposits worked around Shangla and the Swat-Kohistan belt yield a dense, fine-grained stone in deep spinach-to-forest greens, still recovered in small quantities and finished largely by hand.

• Toughness. Nephrite's interlocking fibrous structure makes it the most durable of the jades, built for daily wear.
• Luster. That structure takes the soft, almost oily polish collectors look for.
• Type A, guaranteed. No dye, no polymer impregnation, no bleaching. Natural color, cut and polished only.

Each piece is one of a kind, so color and translucency vary slightly from the photos.