Our story
and patient hands.
Chapter Ten is a silver atelier — devoted to lost-wax casting, hand engraving, oxidized patina, and natural stone setting.
Yik Lam Chan studied fine art and fashion design as a student, a period that exposed him to a wealth of jewelry and pop-culture influences. After graduating in 2014, a chance opportunity led him to a job in a jewelry workshop.
Through self-teaching and further study he picked up the techniques of the craft, and through constant exploration came to see jewelry-making as a way to express his own understanding of beauty. In 2022 he founded Chapter Ten and set down the brand's core value: to make jewelry that can accompany you for a lifetime.
Every Chapter Ten piece begins as a prototype designed by Yik Lam Chan, then takes shape with colleagues in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, who carry out the casting, polishing, and stone setting together.
Why Chapter Ten
I was picking a name for the studio while watching Tarantino's Kill Bill. Between scenes, the film cuts to a title card — Chapter One, Chapter Two, on and on. By the time it reached Chapter Nine, I caught myself thinking: surely the next would be Chapter Ten?
Ten also echoes my given name. As if the chapter were already mine. That is how Chapter Ten was named.
Rock, metal, gothic
Elements drawn from rock, heavy metal, and gothic — folded into freehand sculpture. Rough by intent. Unscripted by hand.