Elsa Peretti Bone Cuff Decision/Discussion Thread

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#362
I was wondering that too, but I was just in Tiffany where I tried on 3 more bone cuffs, all size small. I even tried on an original size in the small.
They were all too big.

I’m still going to measure when I get home though, to compare to the measurement you just gave.

farely said:
I purchased a small/ small in February. It is not as open in the back as yours. I wonder you really have a small/ small. Inside opening to inside opening, it measures about 4.5 inches. It's a bit tricky to remove. So, no fear of it coming off. It does shift a bit side to side and up and down my wrist.
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#363
Is this how you are measuring? If so this is definitely bigger. And what is really crazy is that today I tried on 3 of them today when I went back, all of which were said to be small, and all of which were too big.


farely said:
I purchased a small/ small in February. It is not as open in the back as yours. I wonder you really have a small/ small. Inside opening to inside opening, it measures about 4.5 inches. It's a bit tricky to remove. So, no fear of it coming off. It does shift a bit side to side and up and down my wrist.
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#364
Oh boy. Well I have a crazy story and I could use some advice.

I went into the SoHo store where I got my cuff. I tried on 3 different ones, all were said to be small, all were too big for me.

They agreed it was too big but told me that ever since Elsa passing they have decided to not resize any of her pieces. They said it was to retain design integrity. My SA bought the manager in who insisted that they could absolutely not resize it or even add a chain (not that I would want that) as it would be considered a design change.

I’m at a loss as to what to do. Clearly bending it a bit is not a good idea.

Hermes Nuttynut said:
I was at the Peretti silver counter in the Tiffany NYC store, and one of the SAs told me a customer was trying the bone cuff on. It didn’t fit, so the SA tried to just slightly bend it to fit better and it broke!
:shocked: :amazed:

I’m thinking it probably wasn’t annealed properly. :shrugs:
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#365
renee_nyc said:
I got a bone cuff today, and I absolutely love it. I could use a little bit of advice. The SA in the store (SoHo, NYC) was lovely, but she did not think the cuff could be adjusted. Based on what I’ve read in this thread, I think it could be.

Does this look big to you? My wrists are pretty tiny and this is the size small of the small. When I was walking around with it, it spun around a little, and I felt like it might fall off. But I don’t want to make a big deal of it if that’s just the way they are supposed to fit. Here are a few examples.



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The length of the bangle may be correct, but opening looks really big. My small/small opening is a little less than 1". Your opening looks like 2". That may be the difference. Maybe measure the open gap. How much space is your gap?
 
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#369
Hermes Nuttynut said:
I was at the Peretti silver counter in the Tiffany NYC store, and one of the SAs told me a customer was trying the bone cuff on. It didn’t fit, so the SA tried to just slightly bend it to fit better and it broke!
:shocked: :amazed:

I’m thinking it probably wasn’t annealed properly. :shrugs:
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Broke?! Can you get more details? Like what exactly did the SA do? Where was the break?
 
#370
She only said it broke when she tried making it larger. If silver isn’t annealed properly, which is supposed to make the metal softer and less brittle, it can break more easily at stress points. Try making the opening larger on a poorly annealed piece, and it will probably snap. That’s just my guess. I wasn’t there at the time of the event.
 
#372
I mentioned this and tagged you in the Peretti thread, but after you mentioned buying your cuff at the 57th street store and that they really understood the small sizing, I thought I would try to buy it there.

So I called to ask if they could cancel the back ordered cuff, which they did.
57th was showing in stock on the Tiffany site but they checked the 57th street inventory and said there were no smalls at all in NY and none online.

So then they said they could order it from one of the other stores. The Customer service rep looked at the inventory in the US and said there are 75 small size, small style for the right wrist in the country.

She specifically picked a store that had 3 of them so I would get a fresh one, not a display one.

They placed the order and I got a confirmation. But then an hour later I received a notice saying it was back ordered.


farely said:
I got mine from the 57th street store. The two SA I worked with understood BC sizing.
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renee_nyc said:
I mentioned this and tagged you in the Peretti thread, but after you mentioned buying your cuff at the 57th street store and that they really understood the small sizing, I thought I would try to buy it there.

So I called to ask if they could cancel the back ordered cuff, which they did.
57th was showing in stock on the Tiffany site but they checked the 57th street inventory and said there were no smalls at all in NY and none online.

So then they said they could order it from one of the other stores. The Customer service rep looked at the inventory in the US and said there are 75 small size, small style for the right wrist in the country.

She specifically picked a store that had 3 of them so I would get a fresh one, not a display one.

They placed the order and I got a confirmation. But then an hour later I received a notice saying it was back ordered.
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I wonder if there is a problem with this recent batch so they withdrew it from inventory. Or, they may be doing inventory for a count and it is only temporary withdrawn... who knows.

I would not worry though, Tiffany is now really pushing the Bone Cuff, so you are buying at a good time. The small/small size was once very hard to get, and it was not often not even listed as an option on the website. When I purchased mine, the SA I worked with insisted the sizes were only medium and large. She says she had never seen a small/small, hence some SAs are not aware.

I am sure you will get your small/small.
 
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