It's the real deal, I have an identical one myself.
Regarding the link question, they are not gold plated. If you remove the links and split the bracelet, there are 18k gold sleeves covering the middle parts of the links that can be slid off. I'm not too sure about the small outer ends, they appear to be solid, but I suspect they are gold capped, although they too could be small gold sleeves pressed on.
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