Clasp for personal ornaments or furnishings

A clasp for personal ornaments or furnishings, the clasp comprising two metallic parts at least one of which attracts the other by virtue of magnetic property, said metallic parts can be removeably coupled together, one of the said metallic parts having an annular projection formed on the coupling surface thereof, the other of said metallic parts having an annular groove formed in the coupling surface thereof, so that when the said two metallic parts are coupled together, said annular projection is fitted in said annular groove, said one of said parts and said other of said parts being free to rotate with respect to one another when coupled together, each of said metallic parts being formed with a respective flange which extends laterally in the same plane as that of the respective said coupling surfaces of said metallic parts, said two metallic parts being of substantially identical external shape, each said metallic part having an approximately cylindrical portion adjacent its said coupling surface and an approximately semispherical end opposite its said coupling surface such that when said two metallic parts are coupled together, the length of the clasp from end-to-end is longer than the diameter of said approximately cylindrical portions, whereby the coupling direction can be extended along a surface of a wearer's body with the cylindrical portions resting against the user.