{"title":"The Cuffs","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeavy open cuffs, hand-poured solid in sterling silver or bronze. No solder, no plating, no clasp. Each one adjusts by hand to the wrist that wears it.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-vigil","title":"The Vigil","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e— 1 Corinthians 16:13\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA vigil is a night spent awake on purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore a man was knighted he kept one. Armor laid on the altar, the church dark, and him kneeling in front of it from dusk until the first mass. Nobody watched him do it. No one would know if he slept. That was the test — not whether he could fight, but whether he could stay at his post through the long hours when it would be easy not to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of a man's life is that. Not the battle. The watch. The hours nobody sees, when you hold the line anyway because you said you would.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlank grain cut down the length of the band, the way a cross was built from timber, not carved from it. A plain cross at either end, so it is at both edges of the opening — there is no way to put it on without one facing you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKeep the watch.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand poured solid — .925 sterling silver or bronze\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApproximately 2.4 troy ounces in silver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e78mm × 57mm outside, 12mm band\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpen cuff, adjusts by hand for a closer or looser fit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-oxidized recesses, polished high points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShips in a leather presentation box\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned Certificate of Authenticity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoured and finished in Vermont\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFit\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFits wrists 6½ – 7½ in. Measure around your wrist where the cuff will sit, snug but not tight. Slides on from the side over the narrow edge of the wrist and sits with the opening on the inside. If your wrist is outside this range, contact us before ordering — we can pour to fit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vancroft \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Silver","offer_id":48499399688413,"sku":"VC-VIGIL-AG","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Bronze","offer_id":48499399721181,"sku":"VC-VIGIL-BZ","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/3774\/7421\/files\/cross_cuff_product_photo.jpg?v=1788470296"},{"product_id":"geri-freki","title":"Geri \u0026 Freki","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo wolves sat at Odin's feet in the hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeri and Freki. The names mean the same thing — the greedy one, the ravenous one. Whatever was set in front of the god he gave to them, every scrap, and lived on wine alone. The old poem says it plainly: the Father of Armies feeds his wolves and needs no food himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe did not chain them. He did not starve them into obedience. He kept them fed and kept them close, and they went where he went.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery man has a pair. The hunger that gets him out of bed and the one that would eat him alive if he let it. You do not kill them. You feed them what you decide, and you keep them where you can see them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo wolves at the opening, jaws open, facing each other across the gap. Knotwork and hammer marks down a thick-walled band, heavy on the arm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeed the wolves. Keep them close.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand poured solid — .925 sterling silver or bronze\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApproximately 3.16 troy ounces in silver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e80mm × 54mm outside, heavy-wall band\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpen cuff, adjusts by hand for a closer or looser fit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-oxidized recesses, polished high points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShips in a leather presentation box\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned Certificate of Authenticity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoured and finished in Vermont\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFit\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFits wrists 6¼ – 7¼ in. Measure around your wrist where the cuff will sit, snug but not tight. Slides on from the side over the narrow edge of the wrist and sits with the wolves on top. This is a thick-walled piece and sits closer than a thin cuff. If your wrist is outside this range, contact us before ordering — we can pour to fit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vancroft \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Silver","offer_id":48499474366685,"sku":"VC-GERI-AG","price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Bronze","offer_id":48499474399453,"sku":"VC-GERI-BZ","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/3774\/7421\/files\/wolf_cuff_charwood.jpg?v=1788832140"},{"product_id":"the-rode","title":"The Rode","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe rode is the chain between the ship and the anchor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything else on a vessel can fail and she will still be there in the morning. If the rode goes, she is on the rocks by midnight. So it was the one thing a sailor never trusted to a weld. Stud-link chain, each link forged with a bar across the middle so it could not stretch or kink under load, laid out in a locker in the bow where the whole crew could see it and nobody could hide a bad link.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA man is only as good as what holds him when the wind comes up. Not the sails. Not the speed. The thing underneath that nobody looks at until it matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBar-link anchor chain, every link cast solid in a single pour. No solder, no joins, no clasp to let go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHold fast.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand poured solid — .925 sterling silver or bronze\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApproximately 1.64 troy ounces in silver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e79mm × 55mm outside\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpen cuff, adjusts by hand for a closer or looser fit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-oxidized recesses, polished high points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShips in a leather presentation box\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned Certificate of Authenticity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoured and finished in Vermont\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFit\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFits wrists 6½ – 7½ in. Measure around your wrist where the cuff will sit, snug but not tight. 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Every navigator who ever crossed open water lived by it, because most of the time the sky was overcast and the coast was gone and the only thing that told you where you were was where you had been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe skull was on the chart too. Not as a threat. As the last known point. Every man who reads a chart knows how his line ends; the work is in how straight he holds it until then.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo skulls at the opening, faceted flat and hard, facing each other across the gap. 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