Your Personal Guide to Spot a Fake Cartier Love Bracelet

Cartier Love Bracelet
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Designed in 1969 by Aldo Cipullo for Cartier, the Love Bracelet is one of the most iconic pieces of jewelry from Cartier. The Cartier Love Bracelet has become a global symbol of love and commitment. Desired by men and women worldwide, the Cartier Love Bracelet enjoys the opulent status of being one of the most recognized and coveted pieces of designer jewelry. Almost, every couple in this world desires to own a set of Cartier Love Bracelet. The immense popularity that the Love Bracelet from Cartier enjoys, indeed, is beneficial for the company; however, it has a disadvantage as well. A lot many counterfeit and fake pieces of Cartier Jewelry are making rounds, especially in the online jewelry market.

A few years back nobody would have thought that they will purchase jewelry online as a significant majority of the population liked to shop for jewelry from land-based stores. However, nowadays, due to lack of time or any other reason, people prefer to buy jewelry online as well and get the same straight away delivered to their home. You can spot innumerable websites on the World Wide Web selling jewelry, however, only a few of them has original Cartier jewelry for sale. This has given rise to the cases where a customer receives counterfeit jewelry instead of the original piece. In the case of Cartier, there is a multitude of fake Cartier Love Bracelets available on the Internet as well as in certain land-based stores. In this post, we are going to provide you with certain tips that will help you distinguish between fake Cartier Love Bracelets and original Cartier Love Bracelets.

How to identify fake Cartier Love Bracelet?

• Feel the weight and check the quality

Cartier utilizes top-notch materials in designing their products. The design of Love Bracelets is exclusively in 18k yellow, white, or pink gold, as well as 950-Platinum. Moreover, all the gemstones utilized are, of course, real diamonds.

Therefore, if you see a Cartier Bracelet in silver, steel or any other material, it is decidedly a fake product. If the gemstones are not diamonds then also it is a fake Cartier Love Bracelet. Please note that on an original Love Bracelet, the diamonds are visible on the inside of the bracelet as well via hexagonal cut-outs.

An original Love Bracelet, depending on the model you select, weighs between 30-38 grams. The fake one will, of course, be lighter in weight than the original one. The finishing on the fake one will also be inferior. If you look closely you can spot chipping or discoloration in the fake bracelets.

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• Closely check out the hallmarks and the logos

Love Bracelets made of gold have the stamp 18k or 750 or sometimes both. Platinum bracelets have the stamp 950. If you don’t find these hallmarks then it is a warning sign. Please note that when the first Love Bracelets came into the market; they didn’t have the hallmarks and neither had they had the serial number so it was extremely easy to create fake bracelets. Hence, more than 50% of the Love Bracelets from the 1970s are fake products.

Moreover, even if you see the hallmarks and the Cartier logo impressed upon the bracelet check their finishing. Fake Love Bracelets would have smudged logos, the font may be different than the cursive font, and the finishing will not be precise. One close look and you can see that the finishing job will be extremely careless on the fake love bracelets. Please have a close look at the spellings as well.

Sometimes, in fake bracelets, the placement of the engravings is also wrong. Please note that the original Cartier Love Bracelets also contain the two-digit bracelet size engraved on them. This is the diameter of the bracelet in inches and the options are 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20.

Finally, all the modern Cartier Love Bracelets have a serial number that is unique to the particular piece only. There can never be a duplicate of this number.

• Check out the screws

In the recent update to the design of the Cartier Love Bracelets, the screws are now attached to the bracelet. The real Cartier Love Bracelets have the screws perfectly stamped into the metal. They are extremely precise. On the other hand, the fake bracelet has misaligned screws and an uneven surface.

If you spot too much of wide screw axes then you are most likely looking at a fake piece. The authentic bracelets have thinner screw axes.

• Price

If you are getting a Cartier Love Bracelet at a price that is too good to be true then you are, indeed, receiving a fake Cartier Love Bracelet.

Please note that there is a special edition love bracelet for which Cartier partnered with Revlon Cosmetics. They come with an inscription of ‘Carles Revson.’ This was a less expensive model. These pieces are still available in the market. Make sure you are notified properly of the same.

Final Words

It might be difficult to recognize a fake Cartier Love Bracelet, but a few additional minutes of scrutinizing can help you stay away from shelling out your hard-earned bucks on a fake love bracelet. Look closely and if you happen to spot any kind of imperfections, you are most likely investing in a fake bracelet.


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