Navajo TURQUOISE Coral Silver Watch Bracelet 2737-WT
This is a true classic. You'll be offering the time of day to complete strangers just to show off this impressive watch. Shining hand cut Sterling Silver watch tips each hold a nugget of sky blue Sleeping Beauty Turquoise (the Tiffany of Turquoise), and a nugget of genuine Red Branch Coral. Hand twisted Sterling Silver wires, hand made 'Navajo Tear Drops', hand made Sterling Silver coils, and Sterling Silver feather figures all help to dress up this work of wearable art. Complimentary watch face may vary. Made in our shop, the watch tips are 1-1/8" wide and 1-3/8" long. It has an adjustable stretch band, and it can be sized for you. Just send us your wrist size. Signed with the artist's hallmark.The existence of coral for Adornment, and it's great demand in our world, dates back over ten thousand years. The name for this is "Moorish or Oxblood Jewelry" Quality Coral is also referred to as RED GOLD! Coral is known to be used as a gem since prehistoric times. Coral has a history of religious meaning and is one of the seven treasures in Buddhist scriptures. There are many legends about Turquoise; The Pima consider it to bring good fortune and strength and that it helped overcome illness. The Zuni believe that blue turquoise was male and of the sky and green turquoise was female and of the earth. Pueblo Indians thought that its color was stolen from the sky. In Hopi legend the lizard who travels between the above and the below, excretes turquoise and that the stone can hold back floods. The Apache felt that turquoise on a gun or bow made it shoot straight. The Navajo consider it as good fortune to wear and believe it could appease the Wind Spirit. |