How to Size a Cuban Link Bracelet

Eight inches shows up constantly because a lot of men's ready-made bracelets are built there. It is a manufacturing habit. It is not your wrist. A 6.5 inch wrist in an 8 inch Cuban will swing like a napkin ring. A 7.5 inch wrist in a 7 inch Cuban will not pass the hand.

1. Measure just below the wrist bone with a soft tape, in inches, to the quarter inch.
2. Note the hand. If the hand is much wider than the wrist, the bracelet has to clear the hand, not just match the bone.
3. Decide if a watch is on that wrist. A Cuban next to a watch needs the loose end of the range.
4. Only then add the fit allowance below.

The general version of this tape method, for every bracelet style, is the bracelet size guide. Ring sizes do not convert. If you need that chart for a different order, it is the ring size chart.

A Cuban link is a flat, tight curb. As it gets wider it also gets thicker. The bracelet becomes a short, stiff oval instead of a floppy chain. The inside diameter is what touches you. The outside diameter is what you see. On a 12 mm or 14 mm Cuban, a lot of the "length" is metal stacked toward the center of the wrist.

Common retail practice: take the length you would wear in a thin bracelet and add about half an inch once the links pass about 10 mm wide. Some fitters add a quarter inch at 8 to 10 mm and a half inch above that. This is practice from bracelet counters, and the plan for this page flagged it as something to confirm with a bench. Franky has not published that half inch as a house rule. If you are ordering a wide Cuban custom, put your wrist measurement in the note and let the length be part of the price conversation, not a guess you lock in from a blog.

Read that table as a starting sketch. Try the piece on if it exists. Do not treat the second column as a Franky spec.

Cuban bracelets in the trade usually close with a box clasp, often with a safety latch, because the bracelet is heavy and a lobster looks unfinished on a wide link. The box has length. If you measure a bracelet you already own, include the clasp in the end-to-end number if you wear it inside the circle, which you do. People measure only the links, forget a 15 mm box, and then say the new one feels short.

A box clasp should sit on the underside of the wrist, not on the bone. If your length puts the box on the bone, go a half size so it can rotate under, or accept a snug fit that keeps the box centered underneath. Safety latches are there because a heavy Cuban on a sidewalk is an expensive sound. Close them.

Clasp education is general. None of the live bracelet titles say Cuban, so none of them is the sample. The plain curb that is in stock, the Curb Chain Bracelet at $315, is a thin cousin. It shows the link family. It does not show wide-Cuban fit. Browse bracelets for what can ship now, and Cuban link bracelets for that collection when pieces are listed.

A Cuban beside a watch needs clearance at the clasp and at the lugs. Add toward a full inch over the bare wrist, and look at the stack in a mirror with the watch on. If the Cuban is wide, it may not belong on the watch wrist at all. The other wrist is a valid answer.

Neck chains are sized in a different language: 18, 20, 22 inches. Do not reuse a bracelet inch for a chain. Cuban chains that are actually in the catalog live under Cuban link chains, with diamond and plain gold splits at diamond Cuban links and gold Cuban links.

Shortening a Cuban means removing links and refinishing the clasp joint. That is bench work. It is not a published Franky service. Hollow Cubans are a poor candidate anywhere, because the links collapse under a saw. Order the length you measured. If you want one built, custom starts with a design and an exact price before any gold is cut.

Send the wrist in inches, the fit you want (snug or easy), the width you want in millimeters, and whether a watch shares the wrist. A photo of a tape on the wrist, with the number readable, beats a paragraph. If you already own a Cuban that fits, measure that one end to end, clasp included, and send that number instead of a formula.

The showroom can put a chain or a bracelet on the wrist, which ends the argument. 7900 NW 27th Ave, Unit 506, Miami FL 33147. Phone 954-504-5640. Insured shipping applies to pieces that leave. A wrong guess on length is not a manufacturing defect. The 7-day window is for defects. All sales are final.