Round Cut Tennis Charm Pendant

What It Is

Aurate New York built this pendant around a single insight: most people who own a tennis necklace wear it plain, because adding a separate pendant means dealing with a second clasp, a second chain length, a second everything. The Round Cut Tennis Charm Pendant sidesteps all of that. It's designed to slide directly onto a strand — specifically Aurate's own Lab Grown White Sapphire tennis necklaces — so the pendant sits at the center of your neckline without any additional hardware. It's one piece doing the work of two.

The Stone Options

Five choices: Lab Grown Green Emerald, White Sapphire, Yellow Canary, Red Ruby, and Blue Sapphire. Each is lab-grown, which matters for a few reasons. Lab-grown stones are chemically and optically identical to mined ones, but they don't carry the sourcing ambiguity that follows mined gemstones — and at this price point, you're not buying a collector's stone anyway, so the ethical clarity is a genuine upside. The round cut is classic and maximizes brilliance; it catches light cleanly rather than sitting flat.

Our instinct: the Green Emerald and Blue Sapphire read most distinctly against the white-stone strand, giving you real contrast. White Sapphire on White Sapphire is subtler — more texture than color pop.

The Setting

A 14k gold vermeil prong setting. Vermeil is sterling silver with a thick layer of gold (by US law, at least 2.5 microns) — it's not plated costume jewelry, but it's also not solid gold. It looks indistinguishable from solid gold when new. The honest caveat: with daily wear, friction points will eventually show wear through to the silver beneath, particularly where the pendant touches the strand. How long that takes depends entirely on your skin chemistry and how often you take it off. We've seen well-cared-for vermeil last years; we've also seen it dull faster than expected on someone who never removes their jewelry.

The Design Logic

At $218, you're paying for the concept as much as the materials — the sliding mechanism, the Aurate design language, the stone selection. If you already own an Aurate tennis necklace, this is an unusually coherent upgrade: one purchase, no new chain, immediate visual impact. If you don't own the matching strand, the math changes. The pendant is designed for their specific strand width and construction, and Aurate doesn't guarantee it'll seat correctly on third-party chains.

The weight is negligible — 0.01 lb — so there's no pulling or asymmetry even on a delicate chain.

Honest Assessment

This is a well-executed, purposeful piece for a specific customer. Aurate's design restraint works in its favor: no logo, no fussiness, just a clean prong-set stone in a format that doesn't ask you to rethink your whole jewelry setup. We'd feel comfortable buying this as a gift for someone who wears the Aurate strand regularly. We'd feel less comfortable recommending it as a standalone fine-jewelry purchase for someone starting from scratch.