A bead is a shaped, perforated unit (metal, gemstone, glass, or organic material), that only becomes jewelry in sequence. The perforation is the defining feature: with it, you have the building block of an entire jewelry category.
Myth & Meaning
Amethyst jewelry carries a romantic layer of meaning that most people haven't connected. Medieval European tradition associated St. Valentine with an amethyst ring carved with the image of Cupid, giving the stone a symbolic relationship with love that sits on top of its birth month placement and makes February amethyst gifting unusually resonant for Valentine's Day as well.
Made With Purpose
The spring inside a lobster clasp is small, but its performance is not fragile. The mechanism is built to cycle, open and close, thousands of times under normal jewelry use before showing any functional degradation. Each press and release during daily wear is unlikely to exhaust it.