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Expansion watch bracelet, gold-tone
Object/Artifact
A gold-tone expansion (stretch/expandable) watch bracelet of the linked-block type: rows of small rectangular metal links connected by internal springs so the band stretches to slip over the hand. The top faces are gold-tone with a textured finish (one band has a fine engine-turned/wave texture, the other a squarer basketweave-like texture); the end pieces are gold-tone straight-end connectors for attaching to a watch case. The reverse shows bright steel link undersides stamped repeatedly "STAINLESS STEEL" and, at the end links, "MADE IN CHINA." There are two such bracelets, similar but with slightly different link textures; each is shown front and back.
2025.1.91
Kept by Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecition
2025.1
People's Republic of China
Asia
MAKER: Unknown maker; unbranded replacement watch bands. Stamped "STAINLESS STEEL / MADE IN CHINA" on the link backs (origin of manufacture: China); no brand name. DATE / PERIOD: Not dated; later 20th century (estimated). Expansion bands are long-running; the "Made in China" marking suggests a later-twentieth-century (or later) manufacture. Undetermined more precisely.
On link reverses, repeated "STAINLESS STEEL"; at the end links, "MADE IN CHINA." No brand or model. Languages: English.
Steel
MATERIALS: Stainless steel links (so stamped) with gold-tone plating; internal expansion springs; gold-tone end connectors. TECHNIQUES: Assembled expansion bracelet — stamped textured top links and plain steel underside links joined over internal springs to form an expandable band; straight-end connectors for spring-bar attachment to a watch.
Fair
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
People's Republic of China
Asia
production
These are two gold-tone expansion watch bracelets — generic, unbranded replacement bands of the springy stretch type, made in China of plated stainless steel. They are accessories/spare parts rather than complete watches: detached bands kept (likely as spares or replacements) for a wristwatch. Their interest is modest and contextual — they sit alongside the Soviet "Slava" wristwatch (which is on an improvised strap) and document the practical business of keeping watches wearable, the same repair-and-replacement theme seen across this material; whether either band was ever fitted to a specific watch in the holdings is not established and should not be assumed.