One chain.The one you don’t take off.
The Cuban link is the only chain we make. 316L steel under titanium nitride, then gold. The nitride is the layer that takes the wear, so you shower in it, train in it, live in it.
The Cuban link. Boxed and checked by hand. Ships the same or next business day.
The Guarantee
Keep the chain.Get your money back.
There is no deadline. If you decide it is not for you, we refund every dollar. You keep the chain. No return required.
The 12mm at 20 inches, in daylight.
The spec
316L is the steel of surgical instruments and watch cases. It carries two to three percent molybdenum, the element that resists salt, and sweat is salt water. Titanium nitride is the coating on cutting tools and watch cases: about 2,000 on the Vickers scale, against about 200 for the steel under it and about 150 for 18K gold. It is the layer that takes the wear. The gold on top carries the color.
Shipping
United States
How it is made
Three factories.About sixty days.
We make one chain, in two widths and four lengths. Each production run takes about sixty days.
The chain, the clasp and the plating are each made at a different factory, so none of them decides what is good enough.
Most of the production time goes into the curvature and the construction of the links. That is slow work in 316L steel, which is harder to shape than gold.
Ground flat under coolant, then coiled off the wheel. Steel, before the gold goes on.
Finding the right plating factory took the longest. A materials scientist works on the coating with us: half a micron of titanium nitride goes on in a vacuum chamber, then the gold. It is the same coating that gives a drill bit its gold color, put there for wear.
This is what the sixty days are for.
The links close up, hanging under their own weight.
The clasp
A thicker latch.More tension in the spring.
A clasp has one job: stay shut while you wear it. We tightened the fit inside ours to help it stay that way.
What gets measured
A tenth of a millimetre.Written down, on the day.
Four checks on every run, signed off by Josef, the co-founder. One dated example of each, from the record.
The samples, before a run is signed off
7.90 · 7.91 · 7.82 mmThe line for an 8mm is 7.90 to 8.10 mm. Three samples, June 2026: two inside it, one not.
The finished chain, on the calipers
8.01 mmA finished 8mm off an earlier, signed-off run. 30 June 2025.
The clasp spring, on the gauge
3.5 NEvery batch of springs goes on the gauge before it is used. This one read 3.5 newtons, 5 August 2026.
The first ten of a new run, one at a time
5 things flagged29 July 2026. A latch, the spring tension, tolerances we wanted tighter, and one link spaced slightly off on one chain. That chain went back.
The chains that pass ship. The ones that do not, do not.
48,323 customers.
Since 2021.
WHAT THEY SAY
4.69 / 5“I recently received the Balanzi 8mm chain and I couldn’t be happier with it. The quality is excellent — it feels solid, durable, and has the perfect weight to it. The shine and finish make it stand out without being over the top, and it’s comfortable enough to wear all day. I’ve gotten several compliments already. Overall, I love this chain and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a stylish, well-made piece.”
“I love this chain the weight and the quality is unmatched. I would definitely recommend these products definitely purchasing more.”
“Nice heavy chain the clasp will not come off no tarnish”