As the story goes, it was sometime back in the 1970s that a fellow by the name of David Yurman was working as a crane operator in his home town of Kalamazoo Michigan. One day, as he was loading sacks of steer manure onto freighters bound for who knows where a cable snapped and a small piece of it flew across the yard and landed around his wrist. He took one look at it and promptly told his boss to “take this job and shove it” and the rest is history.

He went home and by the end of the day he had introduced the world to what is now recognized around the globe as the the David Yurman cable look in designer jewelry. While everyone has given full credit to him since ever since that fateful day, no one has even given so much as a thought to Sam Zook who is the man who first invented the steel cable over 100 years earlier.

Its been a gold mine for him ever since, because if you want to own one of his pieces of cable jewelry you are going to have to literally empty your bank account or do you? As it turns out over the course of the past handful of years other jewelry designers around the globe have been taking a closer look at the cable as well and their work comes much cheaper too. In fact, its a lot cheaper and it has that same exact cable look that Big Dave takes credit for.

You won't recognize any of their names though, because anyone who wears their rings, necklaces or bracelets has to put up with people thinking it is a David Yurman every time they wear one. As the saying goes “the early bird gets the worm” and so it is that David Yurman will most likely always get the credit for the cable look. One thing that you as a jewelry buyer will get though, is massive savings when you buy your jewelry from any one of the other “cable jewelry” guys that are easily found online.

David Yurman Rings Are Enjoyed By Celebrities

Paris Hilton only wears authentic David Yurman jewelry but while Paris Hilton looks good, lets face it, shes as dumb as a box of rocks. You may not be as good looking as Paris but you most likely are a lot smarter and while you can get plastic surgery, dumb is forever. If Paris wants to throw her daddy's money away thats her option to do so, you however have the option of saving tons of money by buying your “cable jewelry” from any one of the bargain dealers that can easily be found online.

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