
Tungsten carbide · 8mm · Brushed
The Alloy
$155

Tungsten carbide · 8mm · Brushed
(20 reviews)
$171
Free US shipping.
Brushed black with polished gold at the edges, stepped so the gold reads as a line rather than a border.
If you’re not sure about your size, no problem. We can send you a ring sizer first so you can find the perfect fit. Just let us know your size once you have it, and we’ll ship your band right away. You can keep the sizer!
Every band is comfort fit, with a gently rounded interior so it passes the knuckle more easily than a flat-profile ring. Comfort-fit bands usually run about a half size larger than standard, if you are between sizes, take the smaller one.
Not sure? We’ll send a free sizer first, and you keep it.
Free US shipping on every order, dispatched within one business day. Returns are accepted for 60 days, no questions asked. If you chose the free sizer, your band ships as soon as you send us your size.
Three free replacements, for any reason at all, lost, broken, or simply the wrong size. No receipt hunting and no argument. How it works.
Warm water, mild soap, soft cloth. Avoid abrasive polishes: tungsten carbide does not need them and they can dull a brushed finish. Remove it before heavy lifting. Tungsten is very hard, which means under extreme force it cracks rather than bends.
Bought it for my brother. He works with his hands and had gone through three bands in two years, and this is the first that has lasted past six months. Still on him.
My partner gave it to me and it took a fortnight to notice that the matte finish stops just short of the inner edge, where it goes polished. That transition is clean enough that you only find it with a thumbnail.
I forgot to take it off before a swim in month two and it made no difference to anything. Size 10, worn daily for fourteen months now, and the fit is the same as the day it arrived.
My wife gave it to me and pointed out that the black is not uniform under close light. It has a very fine grain running round the band, which is why it does not read as painted.
Ordered a 12 on a Monday and had it Thursday. It went on close at the base without adjustment. The matte black arrived even across the face and over both edges. It has been on since.
I wore it at our February ceremony, which was indoors and candlelit, and it read as a dark outline on the hand rather than catching anything. My mother said afterwards she had not realised it was black until she was close.
At a wedding in August the groom had a Vitaly black band and we put them side by side. His was glossy and mine is genuinely matte, with no reflection off the face at all, which under the marquee lights was a visible difference.
Day one it looked severe next to my old titanium band. A week later severe was the point. The titanium always read grey; this reads black.
Through a two-day house move it never came off once. Size 11, close at the base and easy over the knuckle. The inside is polished rather than matte, which is why it slides.
It turned up a week before our October wedding, size 11, and I had a proper moment of relief opening it because the sizing was right first go. The box was better than it needed to be. Only thing, it wants a wipe before photographs.
Sixteen months of daily wear in a size 9 before I would say anything. The fit has not changed and neither has the finish, which is the whole of what I wanted from it.
An 11 sits close at the base. Two years in, the matte black has gone very slightly satin at the contact point under the finger and nowhere else, so you only see it if you take it off. Everywhere visible it is still dead flat.