The length is good and so is the durability (strength-wise), at least for the price. It's thin and delicate looking, but because it's so long (40") obviously it's easy to have "accidents" with it. I caught it on a metal object and there was a hard/fast enough moment of  pulling where it really should have broken but it didn't, so _that's_ great. Unfortunately, the plating is gone pretty much instantly. My necklace had the rose-gold plating and it still does, sort of. It now has: rose gold plating, some areas that look gold, and some that show the silver. The silver, of course, is front-and-center where any pendant I put on it hangs. I can make this weird ombre thing work with how I wear jewelry and anyone who noticed would probably think it was deliberate, but, if I needed it to be uniform this would be a major problem. I haven't had the necklace very long at all. I have worn it several times but not on a daily basis, and not through showers or swimming or anything, so I REALLY wouldn't expect it to have deteriorated this quickly.