I purchased this for a gift. As it was a significant birthday I was hoping for something a bit glamorous, The silver did not look like silver, it looked like steel or aluminum wire. It was not shiny which one expects silver jewelry to be. Also the stones were smaller and sort of dull and somehow "insignificant" against the rather industrial looking metal wire. Not terrible, just disappointing. The clasp however was very well made. In fact the entire item was well made just not great looking.