How to distinguish original Pandora jewelry from a fake?

Pan­do­ra prod­ucts are extreme­ly pop­u­lar. An increas­ing num­ber of girls are dream­ing of such brand­ed jew­el­ry. In this regard, at the request of con­sumers, we decid­ed to fig­ure out how to dis­tin­guish the orig­i­nal Pan­do­ra bracelet from a fake.

Today, there are many indi­ca­tors based on which you can imme­di­ate­ly under­stand the dif­fer­ence between the orig­i­nal and the fake. Let’s get acquaint­ed with them in more detail.

The man­u­fac­tur­er Pan­do­ra has a brand mark for each type of jew­el­ry mate­r­i­al:

• For sil­ver jew­el­ry — “s925 ale”.
• For gold jew­el­ry — “g585 ale”.
• For rose gold items Pan­do­ra Rose and for beads — “ale r” (in 2018, the mark­ing was changed to “ale met”).

The above mark­ings can be seen on every orig­i­nal ring, bracelet and charm, as well as on all Pan­do­ra pen­dants. Often this stamp is not so easy to find, so if you have doubts about the orig­i­nal­i­ty of the prod­uct, you should take a mag­ni­fy­ing glass and inspect the jew­el­ry. The mark­ing can be hid­den on the small details of the beads, on the rim or on the inside of the charms — open­works.

The com­pa­ny decid­ed to launch this mark­ing in 2011. Pre­vi­ous­ly brand­ed beads were dis­tin­guished by the mark­ing “925 ale”.

In addi­tion, when buy­ing prod­ucts of a world-famous brand in Ukraine and in many Euro­pean coun­tries (I mean offi­cial offline stores), you will notice that they bear the hall­marks of the assay office, since this is a manda­to­ry con­di­tion of the law. But for the most part in the Euro­pean regions and in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, the fac­to­ry mark­ing of the brand is suf­fi­cient.

925 test — this amaz­ing alloy com­bines two impor­tant fea­tures in the best pos­si­ble way: a col­or shade like that of the purest sil­ver and extra­or­di­nary strength.

How to dis­tin­guish Pan­do­ra beads from a fake — proven meth­ods

There are sev­er­al ways to dis­tin­guish Pan­do­ra charms from fakes.

• The above mark­ing

Many buy­ers are inter­est­ed in the ques­tion regard­ing the mark­ing of bicol­or beads (these are charms made of gold and sil­ver). What label should be there? The answer is very sim­ple. These beads are marked with sil­ver, as they are pre­sent­ed as sil­ver with gold inclu­sions. There are no mark­ings on the gold ele­ments.

Dur­ing the devel­op­ment of exclu­sive jew­el­ry, the man­u­fac­tur­er uses met­als such as: sil­ver, gold, rose gold and all kinds of these alloys (gold with sil­ver, rose gold with sil­ver).

Bracelets and beads are not made of stain­less or con­ven­tion­al met­al alloy. Pan­do­ra also does not use sput­ter­ing tech­nol­o­gy in the pro­duc­tion of prod­ucts. Gold ele­ments of bracelets and charms are real­ly made of nat­ur­al gold, this is not a coat­ing.

Mak­ing bracelets, rings, pen­dants and charms, the com­pa­ny uses var­i­ous stones (from bud­get options like zir­co­ni­um to expen­sive dia­monds).

All these nuances will make it easy to dis­tin­guish orig­i­nal Pan­do­ra charms from cheap fakes.

What is the dif­fer­ence between a Pan­do­ra bracelet and a fake from Chi­na?

Before you buy Pan­do­ra brand jew­el­ry, you need to know for sure how to dis­tin­guish low-qual­i­ty fakes from the orig­i­nal. If you buy a bracelet, first of all, focus on the PANDORA let­ter­ing itself.

In a real bracelet, the inscrip­tion is even, the sym­bols are drawn as clear­ly as pos­si­ble, they should not be smeared. The prod­uct is char­ac­ter­ized by a cer­tain fea­ture — a crown over the let­ter “O”. Pan­do­ra decid­ed to patent this mark­ing back in 2008. Pre­vi­ous­ly, this addi­tion­al mark­ing was not used.

Nowa­days, the orig­i­nal jew­el­ry with the absence of a crown over the let­ter “O” is sim­ply impos­si­ble to find. Of course, we are talk­ing about the lat­est mod­els of jew­el­ry, not used. Also, do not for­get that real bracelets are always ini­tial­ly rigid. They become soft only after some time of wear­ing. Even if an exact copy of the Pan­do­ra bracelet falls into your hands, it will imme­di­ate­ly be soft, like weav­ing (the orig­i­nal is more reli­able).

• The col­or tone of the orig­i­nal is much dark­er. If you buy orig­i­nal prod­ucts, you will notice that they will not shine as much as a copy. The bracelet will be dim­mer than a reg­u­lar ster­ling sil­ver piece.
• The thread itself has thin edges of weav­ing, on which a clear carv­ing is vis­i­ble.
• The thread in the orig­i­nal is vir­tu­al­ly unbend­able. If you put the jew­el­ry on a flat sur­face, it will remain even, which can­not be said about fakes. Forg­eries may vary.
• Gen­uine prod­ucts have a loose-fit­ting clasp. She talks a lit­tle. In fakes, the clasp will fit as tight­ly as pos­si­ble, and it will also dif­fer in a small­er size.

If your bracelet is orig­i­nal, it will be heavy because it is not hol­low on the inside.

Nobody fakes leather bracelets yet, so there will be no prob­lems with this. Per­haps this is due to the fact that they are bought much less often than mod­els made of sil­ver or gold.

You can also dis­tin­guish orig­i­nal Pan­do­ra brand watch­es from fakes by mark­ing and mate­r­i­al. Nat­u­ral­ly, the cost of orig­i­nal jew­el­ry will be much high­er than the price of fake prod­ucts, remem­ber this.