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Ducas oversees the design of all the collections, while Ayton handles the business operations along with Links' new managing director, links of london jewelry Gareth Morris, former managing director of the English men's wear retailer Hackett.

Links has about 1,100 products and changes about 25 percent of the assortment a year. The Madison Avenue store is projected to have first-year sales of $1.5 million to $2.3 million.

"What we do is young but it meets an awful lot of people's needs," Ducas said, noting Links' core customer is from 30 to 45. "We don't do cutting-edge, trendy jewelry, which usually has to be inexpensive because its style doesn't last very long. We are affordable and contemporary classic."

One of Links' designers will transfer from the cheap Links of London Bracelet 

UK

to

New York

, where he will work in the store for the next two years.

"That shows how important we believe the

U.S.

is," Ducas said. "We need someone on the ground who understands what the customer wants. There is another 1,000 square feet downstairs that we will turn into an area for business gifts and for doing one-ofs for customers. We think there will be a big demand for that in

New York

."

Links has 11 stores in the

UK

-- including seven in

London

-- as well as two units in Hong Kong and a store each in

Dubai

and

Abu Dhabi

. A store in Singaporeopened in late July, to be followed by a store in

Hamburg

,

Germany

, Raindance Earrings in September.

The company also wholesales to such department stores as

Saks Fifth Avenue

, Bergdorf Goodman, Isetan in

Tokyo

, Selfridges and Harrods in

London

, Brown Thomas in

Dublin

, Bon

Marche

in

Paris

and Holt Renfrew in

Toronto

. It believes the

New York

store will help boost its wholesale business in the

United States

.

"Our closest competition in

London

is Tiffany's second floor and it will be the same in

New York

," Ducas said. "But Tiffany has actually helped us because it is scaling back its wholesale worldwide. That's opened up huge possibilities for us because I don't know of any other company that offers the breadth[of merchandise Flutter & Wow 18ct Gold Stiletto Earrings that]we do."Copyright 2000 Fairchild Publications, Inc., a subsidiary of Advance Publications, Inc.Copyright 2000 Fairchild Publications, Inc., a subsidiary of Advance Publications, Inc.641

Along

Toronto

's links of london up-market jewellers are noticing an increasing demand for cuff-links. Purchasers are often women buying gifts for men, but also for themselves. This is nothing new. In the age of the shirt-waist, women were customers for all sorts of cuff-links. Gibson Girls wore them. In 1934, Marlene Dietrich wore baton cuff-links of gold with calibre-cut sapphires from Van Cleef & Arpels.

In the jazz age, jazz-violinist Joecheap Links of London Earrings Wingy Manone, the one-armed trumpet player, a single cuff-link on every birthday.

And as the new millennium approaches, men in their 30s and early 40s are showing renewed interest in discreet male jewelry. Abandoning the sport- and T-shirts of an adolescence prolonged by job scarcity -- and with them, one hopes, the farmyard ornaments of nose-rings and other body-piercing hardware -- peripheral males bucking for acceptance are wearing more formal clothes, including dress-shirts with French cuffs, which fastenWide Purple And Pink Friendship Bracelet . (French cuffs, incidentally, is a term that came in around 1900. The French call them poignets mousquetaires or musketeer cuffs.)

Men in northern countries tend to beSmall Sweetie Bracelet With Freshwater wearing jewelry. In 1908, the New York Sartorial Art Journal declared that ''anything more than plain pearl studs and sleeve links is regarded as the attire of the 'bounder', and to wear diamonds stamps one at once as nouveau riche.'' Granted that almost all Canadian riche are nouveau (in comparison to, say, the Duke of

Westminster

, whose family archives go back to Doomsday), it's no longer necessary to look poor. If you've got it, flaunt it.

Quietly, if you like. Holt Renfrew is showing a selection of English cuff-links priced at about $85 and up, some with ''wingbacks'' (cuff-links with levers), some with curved shafts (easy to insert) and others more traditional in which the backs are linked by chains. Favorites at the moment are little watches, real ones that tell the time. Cartier was first with this idea in 1938, as with the wrist watch itself, but featured only one watch. Not that we need two watches to tell the same story. Smart travellers set one to local time, the other to home time.