unusual mesh-tube bracelet (??)

I *guess* it is a bracelet anyway -- I can't say I know that for sure, but I also don't have any better idea what else it would be . . . ??

It was cheap, and handy, and interesting/unique enough that it followed me home from a junk store without much more thought. :-) It had two cheap 'jump rings' around it with bits of broken former somethings, those easily removed.

It is made from probably stainless steel (it is magnetic, anyway) in a tubular overall shape made up of tiny little rectangular bits all somehow hooked together in a brick-ish pattern of repeating rings that can move and expand and contract lengthways together, in a really weird (and really cool!) snake-like, chain-maille-like combination of ways. There are no discernable 'ends' to it that I can see either, adding to the puzzlement of how it is put together.

Gotta admit, the thing kinda baffles me just a bit, wondering forzactly how somebody somewhere really *did* make it -- but I'm not gonna break it to find out?? ;-) :-) It measures roughly 5" long when elongated but just under 4" when not, so is also actually kind of big for a bracelet, on my wrist anyway. It also isn't nearly as 'heavy' as it could appear 'chunky', only about 8.5g. It *does* seem to be somewhat of a wrist-hair pincher/puller, for what *that's* worth...?? <lol>