David Yurman · Bracelets & Bangles
David Yurman Cable Classic Bracelet Resale Value & Gold Content
Boutique retail
$895
$971 with sales tax
Resale today
$340
38% of retail retained
Metal & stones
$120
13% of the retail price
5-yr net
−$880
$176 a year to own
Baseline: bought new at the boutique with 8.5% sales tax, kept 5 years, sold at 25% commission, after $130 of insurance and servicing, with metal appreciating 4% a year. Adjust everything below.
Model your Cable Classic Bracelet
Pre-filled with David Yurman Cable Classic Bracelet figures. The metal growth rate is the input to argue with — it decides whether the materials ever overtake the name.
The piece
Two values, not one. The branded price decays; the metal and stones underneath do not.
List price before sales tax.
38% of retail. Projection starts here.
Trade value of the materials — 13% of retail. This is the floor.
Per year. Gold is volatile — 1980 to 2000 returned nothing.
Cost of keeping it
Sales tax and the selling commission are never recovered, and on jewelry the commission is the larger of the two.
$76 on this purchase, and never recovered.
Consignment runs 20–40%. An auction house also charges the seller.
A scheduled rider, roughly 1–2% of value. Jewelry rates exceed handbag rates.
Polishing, prong check, rhodium, or restringing.
Charged only in the years one actually falls due.
David Yurman Cable Classic Bracelet — 5-year net
−$880
cost of owning it, after resale
$176 per year · 23% of outlay recovered
$895 plus $76 sales tax
Still below the branded value
Total across the holding period
Today the market pays $220 above the materials for the name. It does not break even within 5 years at these assumptions — the normal outcome for fine jewelry bought at retail.
The name against the materials
Where the lines cross, the design has stopped contributing to what the piece is worth.
- Branded resale value
- Metal & stones alone
Full breakdown
The twisted cable that became an American signature, and the entry point to the house.
David Yurman Cable Classic Bracelet at a glance
- Specification
- Sterling silver with 14k gold domes
- Material
- Sterling silver, 14k gold
- Detail
- Approx. 25 g silver with 14k accents
- Category
- Bracelets & Bangles
- Typical use
- 200 wears a year
- Servicing
- $100 every 3 yrs
Cable Classic Bracelet market position
Produced in volume and sold through department stores, which is the combination that guarantees weak resale. It settles near a third of retail and stays there — the floor is close enough underneath that there is not much further to fall.
What you are paying for
Retail split into the materials and everything else.
- Metal and stones, at trade value
- $120
- Design, workmanship, and the name
- $775
- Of that, what resale still pays today
- $220
After 5 years the branded value is still $149 above the materials, so the name is still doing work.
What ownership costs
5 years with the Cable Classic Bracelet costs about $880 net of resale — $176 a year. You recover 23% of what you paid.
- Sales tax at purchase
- $76
- Insurance per year
- $6
- Selling commission
- $74
- Cost per wear over 5 years
- $0.88
At 200 wears a year — 1,000 wears across the period.
David Yurman Cable Classic Bracelet — common questions
- How much does the David Yurman Cable Classic Bracelet cost?
- Boutique retail is $895 before tax — $971 out of pocket once sales tax at 8.5% is added. On the resale market an excellent-condition example currently asks around $340, or 38% of the boutique price.
- What is the David Yurman Cable Classic Bracelet actually worth in materials?
- About $120 — 13% of the retail price — counting sterling silver, 14k gold at trade values rather than retail ones. The remaining $775 is design, workmanship, distribution, and the name. Of today's $340 resale price, $220 is what the market still pays for that name, and it is the part that can disappear.
- Does the David Yurman Cable Classic Bracelet hold its value?
- Not in cash terms. Held 5 years and consigned at 25% commission, it returns about $222 — roughly 23% of the $971 paid. After $130 of insurance and servicing, owning it costs about $880, or $176 a year. No fine jewelry reference in this dataset reliably clears its own retail price.
- Is the David Yurman Cable Classic Bracelet a better buy than the gold in it?
- Not on these assumptions. After 5 years the branded piece is worth about $295 against $146 for the materials alone, so the name is still carrying $149 of the value. The gap narrows every year the metal price rises faster than the design holds.
- What does it cost to maintain the David Yurman Cable Classic Bracelet?
- Budget approximately $100 per service — polishing, prong inspection, and refinishing — roughly every 3 years, plus around $6 a year to schedule it on a personal-articles policy. Over 5 years that totals about $130. At a typical 200 wears a year it works out at $0.88 per wear.
Compare with
Hermès
Clic H Bracelet
Palladium-plated metal, enamel
- Retail
- $760
- Resale
- $580
- Retained
- 76%
- In materials
- 1%
Messika
Move Uno Bracelet
18k white gold, diamonds
- Retail
- $3,300
- Resale
- $1,300
- Retained
- 39%
- In materials
- 14%
Hermès
Chaîne d'Ancre Bracelet
Sterling silver
- Retail
- $3,600
- Resale
- $2,200
- Retained
- 61%
- In materials
- 2%
Van Cleef & Arpels
Perlée Gold Pearls Bracelet
18k yellow gold
- Retail
- $4,150
- Resale
- $2,600
- Retained
- 63%
- In materials
- 31%
Path to own
How long until you can own this?
Carrying a David Yurman Cable Classic Bracelet costs about $3 a month once finance and running costs are combined — implying roughly $324 of net monthly income at 5% of net monthly income, plus $971 up front. Enter your own figures to see which of those two is actually your constraint, and when it clears.
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