My father spent his life
inside the spine.
I spent mine honoring it.
"My father was a spine surgeon. I grew up surrounded by X-rays clipped to light boxes."
The blue-white glow of vertebral imagery filled his office. It hung in the hallways. Before Julius Margulies understood what he was looking at, he knew the shape.
Before ABALLE, he was a tattoo artist — a waitlist measured in years, clients who flew him to places he can't name. But everything he made disappeared with the skin it was made for.
He needed permanence. He went through sculpture, bronze, aluminum, light boxes glowing like windows into somewhere else. All of it reaching toward the same thing: a form that would survive the person who wore it.
Then he looked back at his father's world. The vertebrae. The structure that holds us upright and carries us forward. It had been there his entire life.
He just took a lifetime to see it.
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Vertebral anatomy.
Fine metal. Your wrist.
SPINALE is the only piece of fine jewelry ever built around the architecture of the human spine. Every link replicates the articulation, negative space, and structural logic of a vertebra. Every link moves independently — the same biomechanical logic as the structure it references.
HOROLOGIUM
SPINALE
The SPINALE bracelet integrated with an authenticated vintage Rolex Datejust. The complete object — bracelet and watch as one architectural system. As seen in Worn & Wound.
What 46 years
actually looks like
Every claim on this page is sourced from a documented interview with ABALLE's master jeweler — 46 years in the trade. Nothing here is marketing copy.
50 pieces.
Per year. That's it.
All handmade. No two identical. Each one passes through 14 hands and 8 to 14 quality control points before it ships. The next one is yours or it isn't.
The SPINALE.
The only piece of fine jewelry ever built around vertebral anatomy. By someone who grew up in a spine surgeon's house.