Tennis fans of a certain vintage will remember the famous incident at the 1987 US Open when Chris Evert’s diamond eternity bracelet snapped mid-rally. Officials immediately paused the match in order to retrieve the star’s signature piece of jewellery, and the term ‘tennis bracelet’ was coined.
An ace for the jewellery industry
A classic tennis bracelet was originally considered to be an elegant, in-line band of individually set diamonds, just as Evert’s had be[..]