Cufflinks are of many types. We usually talk about men?s cufflinks as they are the wide known and most commonly used cufflinks. A disk shaped plate is attached with a chain or a rod. Also two flat disk plates may be attached to each other via a thin rod like material. Cufflinks are designed for dress shirts or blouses having either French Cuffs or Double Cuffs, which have buttonholes on both sides but no buttons. An important aspect of cufflinks is that, the front disk which is visible has some sort of designing or carving done on it. It might be brand name, initials of a person or just a simple design.

Gold cufflinks come in 14kt gold. They come in variety of designs like diamond covered, antique style, engraved with company's name, decorated with gemstones, etc. High profile professionals or corporate people are seen wearing gold cufflinks. It's not necessary that gold cufflinks should go along with all shades of colors. They are good to go with shades of blue, black and grey etc. 

Army Cufflinks are designed for personnel of armed forces. They work as identification mark for people who belong to Army of a particular country or for cadets who belong to different academies of army within the same country. They are plane cufflinks with the snapped logo of Army academy of any place. Air force and Navy force cadets and officers also use cufflinks for the representation of their academy. Also people visiting ships or army bases, bring these cufflinks as souvenirs. 

Diamond cufflinks are the best gifts for anniversary or wedding. Brands like Mont Blanc are the best manufacturers of diamond cufflinks. There can be one diamond; there can be multiple diamonds in square or circular shape. They look good in square shape most of the time because the diamonds are formulated in square shape most of the time.
Turquoise is a precious blue stone that has always been used as a glorifying element for any kind of jewelry. This includes necklaces, rings, bracelets etc. In turquoise cufflinks, either place stone is carved into any shape or it is mixed with some other element and then carved in any shape. At times diamonds are combined with this stone too. Turquoise cufflinks look good with dress shirts that come in shades of white, grey or black.