Mens Silver-Tone Chain Necklace

Men's silver chain necklaces: pick the link first

This page gathers our silver-tone chain necklaces, the plain chains and the ones that come with a pendant. "Silver" here is the color, not the metal: every piece is stainless steel or titanium steel, a stainless steel alloy. Most are bare polished steel, so the silver tone is the steel itself.

The fastest way to choose a silver chain necklace is not the width or the length. It is the link. Each link has its own look, and each one only exists in certain sizes. The table below lists the real ranges of our silver-tone chains.

Silver-tone links and their real sizes

What each link says

Smooth and quiet: box, snake, bar

These read as one clean line. A box chain from 1.2 mm disappears under a shirt and holds a small pendant well. The flat snake lies against the skin like a ribbon of steel.

Textured: rope, wheat, Figaro

Texture catches light without being loud. The titanium steel wheat chain is the most flexible in size, from 3 mm for a pendant to 7.5 mm worn alone.

Bold: cable, Cuban, curb, Franco

These are chains you wear for the chain itself. The polished cable link goes up to 10 mm, the Franco to 13 mm, with a square profile that moves like a flexible bar.

With or without a pendant

If you want a pendant, stay at 4 mm or under in a smooth or textured link, and take 22" or 24". If the chain is the statement, go 6 mm and up and keep it at 20" or 22". For more silver-tone pieces sorted by width, see our main men's silver chains page.

Care

Bare steel handles the shower, the gym, the sea and the pool. Rinse it in clean water after salt or chlorine, then dry it. On the few plated pieces, perfume and chlorine wear the plating down over time.