Carabiner Lock
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Maroth Jewels manufactures custom carabiner lock jewelry in 9K to 18K gold, gold-filled, gold vermeil, and 925 sterling silver. We have produced in-house in Jaipur since 2010 and ship direct to jewelry brands, retailers, and designers across the United States. Minimum order is one piece, so you can test a design in market before you commit capital to inventory.
Minimum order | 1 piece, no maximum |
Metals | 9K, 14K, 18K gold in yellow, white, rose · gold-filled · gold vermeil · 925 sterling silver |
Stones | Natural and lab-grown diamonds · pavé · baguette · coloured gemstones |
Mechanisms | Screw-lock · auto-lock · push-gate enhancer |
Production | 100% in-house, Jaipur, India |
CAD to approved sample | 10–14 days |
Bulk production | 3–4 weeks for 500–1,000 pieces |
Shipping to USA | DHL and FedEx express, 4–7 business days, insured and tracked |
Services | OEM · private label · white label · custom design from sketch |
A carabiner lock is a metal loop with a spring-loaded gate. The form comes from climbing hardware, where the gate had to open fast under tension and hold under load. Jewelry borrowed it because it does two jobs at once: it functions as the clasp and reads as the centrepiece of the piece.
That dual purpose is why the style has held a permanent place in fine jewelry rather than passing through as a trend. A conventional lobster clasp is something a designer hides at the back of the neck. A carabiner is the reason the customer bought the necklace.
The commercial consequence matters more than the aesthetic one. A carabiner is an open anchor point, so the customer who buys one comes back for charms, pendants, and additional chains to hang from it. You are selling a platform rather than a single finished piece, and the attachment rate on follow-up purchases is what makes the category worth carrying. It is the same mechanic that built the charm bracelet category, applied to a silhouette that suits contemporary minimalist and demi-fine positioning.
The mechanism is the part of a carabiner most likely to be returned, so it is worth choosing deliberately rather than by appearance.
Screw-lock. A threaded collar turns down over the gate and holds it closed mechanically. The most secure of the three. Choose it for heavier pendants, for anything carrying stone value, and for pieces a customer will wear continuously rather than removing daily. The trade-off is that it takes two hands to open.
Auto-lock. The gate springs shut and locks itself with no second action from the wearer. Easiest to operate one-handed, which is the deciding factor on bracelets, where the customer is fastening it against their own wrist. Slightly more moving parts, so tolerances in manufacture matter more.
Push-gate enhancer. Opens with a single push. The lightest action and the most comfortable for charm-holder designs where the piece is opened and closed several times a week. Not the choice for heavy pendants, but the right one for interchangeable systems.
We produce all three in every metal and size we carry. Where a design calls for a mechanism outside these, we cut new tooling to your specification.
14K is the most requested karat across our US orders, and the reason is mechanical rather than commercial.
A carabiner is not a static object. The gate is a spring under repeated cycling, and the hinge pin takes wear every time the piece is opened. At 58.3% gold, 14K alloy holds spring temper and edge definition through that cycling in a way 18K does not. An 18K gate will soften and lose tension measurably faster under the same use. For a component the customer operates hundreds of times a year, that difference shows up as warranty returns.
14K also lands where most US fine and demi-fine price architecture sits, so you get the durability and the margin in the same decision.
9K works where the retail price point is the governing constraint. Harder still, though the lower gold content changes the colour noticeably in yellow, which some brands accept and others do not.
18K is the choice where brand positioning requires it and the piece is a pendant rather than a working clasp. Richer colour, softer alloy.
Gold-filled and gold vermeil suit demi-fine lines built to a lower landed cost. Vermeil over 925 silver with heavier microns on the gate and hinge, which are the first places plating wears through.
We manufacture in yellow, white, and rose across all karats, solid or hollow, plain or stone-set.
Shapes in existing tooling: heart, oval, rectangle, star, bolt, cross, and butterfly. Finishes include high polish, matte, brushed, and hammered.
Stone-set work runs from a single bezel accent through full pavé and baguette channel setting. Our highest-volume stone-set piece remains the pavé carabiner necklace, engineered to sit correctly across a range of chain lengths so one SKU covers most necklines rather than forcing you to stock three.
A note from the bench on pavé carabiners specifically: stones set along the gate side need a marginally deeper seat than the same pavé run on a static surface, because the gate flexes each time it opens. Setting it identically to a solid pendant is the most common reason a carabiner loses stones in its first year. It is the kind of detail that only shows up after you have made several thousand of them.
Where your design is not in our existing tooling, we cut new from a sketch, CAD file, or reference image.
The same carabiner component carries a full collection, which is what makes the category efficient to stock:
Necklaces. Carabiner as centrepiece on paperclip, cable, curb, or rope chain in your specified gauge and length.
Bracelets. The same lock scaled to wrist proportion, or the necklace doubled.
Charm holders. Carabiner as the anchor for interchangeable charms.
Earrings and huggies. Miniature carabiner forms.
Loose findings. Carabiner clasps supplied as components, at wholesale, without any requirement to order finished pieces.
That last line matters if you assemble in-house. Designers who need only the hardware are usually told by manufacturers to order finished jewelry instead. We will supply the clasp on its own.
Most of our US clients arrive with a design rather than a catalogue order.
1. Send your concept. A sketch on paper, a CAD file, a reference photograph, or a written spec. Any one of these is enough to begin. You do not need technical drawings.
2. Quote and spec sheet. We return pricing broken out by metal, karat, finished gram weight, and stone specification, with a production timeline. You see the cost structure, not a single number.
3. CAD and approval. We produce a 3D render for your review. Two revision rounds are included, and in practice most designs settle inside one. Nothing is cast until you approve.
4. Sample. A physical first article goes to you for approval. Sample cost is credited against your bulk order when you proceed.
5. Bulk production. The approved sample becomes the reference standard on the floor. Casting, setting, polishing, and inspection all happen in our own facility.
6. Dispatch. Packed to your specification, including your own branded boxes, cards, and tags where you supply or commission them.
We manufacture under your name. Private label, white label, and OEM are standard arrangements here, and nothing leaves the factory carrying our mark unless you ask for it.
Most manufacturer websites will not discuss cost. That is not useful to you, so here is how the quoting actually works.
Fine jewelry is not priced as a flat unit cost. A quote is built from three components:
Metal. Finished gram weight multiplied by the gold rate on the day of quoting. Gold moves daily, so this portion of any quote is time-limited, typically held for 48 hours. A small plain 14K carabiner runs roughly 2 to 4 grams finished; a substantial statement piece can reach 12 grams or more. Weight is the single largest lever you have on cost, and it is worth resolving at CAD stage rather than after sampling.
Making charge. The labour and overhead of production, quoted either per gram or per piece. A plain polished carabiner sits at the low end. Pavé setting raises it substantially, because the cost is in setting hours rather than materials. Baguette channel work is higher again. Making charge falls as volume rises, and the meaningful breaks are typically at 50, 250, and 1,000 pieces.
Stones. Priced separately by size, quality, and whether natural or lab-grown. Lab-grown diamonds have changed the economics of pavé carabiners considerably and are worth pricing both ways before you commit to a spec.
Understanding this split tells you where to push. Brands new to sourcing tend to negotiate the total. Experienced buyers negotiate the making charge and redesign for gram weight, because those are the two numbers actually within anyone's control.
We manufacture in Jaipur and supply the US market directly. Being plain about that is worth more to you than a vague claim of local presence, because the location is the reason the pricing works.
Jaipur has been a centre of gemstone cutting and fine jewelry production for generations, and the depth of bench skill concentrated here is not something that can be replicated by scale elsewhere. A setter who has spent twenty years on pavé is not unusual here. That labour depth is why a fully pavé carabiner costs what it does with us rather than what it costs from a domestic US workshop, and it is why the finish quality holds across a thousand-piece run instead of drifting after the first two hundred.
For a US buyer, working direct means no importer's margin between you and the bench, and direct conversation with the people actually running your production rather than a sales intermediary relaying specifications.
Shipping and customs. Orders ship DAP by DHL or FedEx express, insured and tracked door to door, typically 4 to 7 business days to US addresses. You are the importer of record, and US duties and any applicable taxes are payable by you on arrival. We supply the commercial invoice, HS classification, and any documentation your customs broker requires. If you would prefer a landed-cost arrangement handled end to end, we can quote that instead.
Our pieces are produced nickel-free and lead-free throughout.
This is a practical requirement rather than a marketing line. Several US states, California and Minnesota among them, regulate lead and cadmium content in jewelry, and federal CPSIA limits apply to anything intended for children. Nickel is the most common contact allergen in jewelry and a leading cause of returns in earrings and anything worn against the skin continuously. Sourcing a piece that fails a state content restriction after it is already in your warehouse is an expensive problem, and it is one you should be confirming with any manufacturer you approach, not only with us.
Gold is supplied and hallmarked to the karat specified, and we provide stone certification from an independent laboratory on request for diamond work.
Independent brands launching a first collection
Established retailers adding carabiner to an existing range
Wholesalers and distributors buying at volume
Designers who want a manufacturing partner rather than a catalogue
Studios who assemble in-house and need findings only
The one-piece minimum exists for the first group. A new brand should be able to put a design in front of real customers before committing to inventory, and most factories will not allow that because single-piece runs are inefficient to produce. We accept that inefficiency because the brands that start with one piece are the ones that come back with a thousand.
In-house production. Casting, setting, polishing, and quality control happen under one roof. Nothing is subcontracted. This is why a repeat order matches the first one: the same bench, working to the same approved reference sample, with no third party interpreting your spec.
Sixteen years on the same product. Working in production since 2010. The value of that is not the date, it is the accumulated knowledge of the specific failure modes of this component: how gate springs fatigue, which hinge tolerances cause rattle, where plating wears first, how pavé behaves on a flexing surface. It is why our samples usually clear approval in one round.
One piece to unlimited. No minimum order value, and no penalty structure for small runs.
Direct communication. You talk to the people running your production, on WhatsApp, with responses inside one business day on IST working days. Not a ticket queue.
One piece, with no maximum and no minimum order value. We quote sample and bulk pricing together so you can see the volume break before deciding how to start.
Yes. Send a sketch, CAD file, photograph, or written specification. We produce a 3D render for approval, then a physical sample, then bulk. Nothing goes into production until you have approved a piece you can hold.
14K for most US price points. The alloy holds spring temper and edge definition through repeated gate cycling better than 18K, which matters because a carabiner is a working mechanism rather than a static pendant. Choose 9K where retail price governs, 18K where positioning requires it, and gold-filled or vermeil for demi-fine.
Screw-lock for heavy or stone-set pendants where security matters most. Auto-lock for bracelets, because it operates one-handed. Push-gate enhancer for charm holders opened frequently.
Yes. Private label, white label, and OEM production are standard. Pieces ship in your packaging with your branding and no reference to us.
CAD to approved physical sample runs 10 to 14 days. Bulk production is 3 to 4 weeks for 500 to 1,000 pieces. Express shipping to the US adds 4 to 7 business days.
Yes, at wholesale, with no requirement to order finished jewelry alongside them.
Pricing is built from three parts: metal weight at the day's gold rate, a making charge for labour, and stones priced separately. Gram weight and setting complexity are the two largest variables. Send your design and we will return the full breakdown rather than a single figure.
Orders ship DAP, so you are the importer of record and duties are payable on arrival. We provide the commercial invoice and HS classification your broker needs. We can quote landed cost instead if you prefer.
Send a sketch, CAD file, or reference image. You will get pricing, a full spec sheet, and a production timeline back.
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