Broken clasp
A clasp that no longer holds — the small mechanism whose failure releases what the ornament was supposed to keep on the body.
A broken clasp in a dream is the dream's image of the small mechanism whose failure releases what the ornament was supposed to keep on the body. The chain is fine; the clasp is the failure point. The dream brings the broken clasp when something in your life — a small joining mechanism in a relationship, a piece of procedure that holds an agreement together — has worn out, and what it was holding closed is now open. A broken clasp noticed in time, with the necklace caught in the hand, is the dream affirming that the small failure was caught. A broken clasp discovered only when the chain is already gone is the dream noting that the small mechanism failed in private and the loss has already taken its course.