Hermes Mini Clic Chaine d’Ancre Bracelet Plain Enamel Yellow Gold Rouge Amarante H209000F 94PM

Amarante is a wine-dark red, and on a narrow enamel band with yellow-gold plating it looks more grown-up than red usually manages.

The bracelet is the same architecture as its sisters: a band 0.31 inches wide, a toggle closure, the anchor link revealed at the clasp, and a fit for a 6.3-inch wrist. The yellow gold warms the deep red so that it reads as burgundy rather than cherry, and the glossy enamel has real depth when the light hits at an angle. It opens with a satisfying click, if that matters to you as much as it does to me.

Mine gets worn with navy, charcoal and cream knitwear, the palette that makes dark red look deliberate rather than accidental. I like it in autumn particularly, when it pairs naturally with tweed and leather boots, but I have worn it in July with a white cotton dress and it looked just as much at home. It has also survived a summer of garden lunches without a scratch, which I put down to never wearing it at the sink.

Honest caveat: this is plated metal over enamel, so perfume, chlorine and very hot showers are unkind to it. I put bracelets on after fragrance, and I take mine off before I swim. Do that and the colour stays deep for years, which is more than most red jewellery can claim.

For a first enamel piece, dark red is the safest bold choice I can recommend; it flatters almost every skin tone. Made in France.