How to distinguish original Pandora jewelry from a fake?

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

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

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

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

The mark­ings list­ed above can be seen on every orig­i­nal ring, bracelet and charm, as well as on all Pan­do­ra charms. Most 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 exam­ine the dec­o­ra­tion. Mark­ing can be hid­den on small details of beads, on the rim or on the inside of charms — open­work.

The com­pa­ny decid­ed to launch this mark­ing in 2011. At first, brand­ed beads were marked “925 ale”.

In addi­tion, when buy­ing prod­ucts of a world-famous brand in Ukraine and in many Euro­pean coun­tries (refer­ring to offi­cial offline stores), you will notice that the stamps of the tast­ing room are vis­i­ble on them, as this is a manda­to­ry con­di­tion of the law. But most­ly in Euro­pean regions and in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, the fac­to­ry mark­ing of the brand is enough.

925 is a stun­ning alloy that has two impor­tant fea­tures: a col­or shade like the purest sil­ver and extra­or­di­nary strength.

How to dis­tin­guish Pan­do­ra beads from a fake — proven meth­ods

you can dis­tin­guish Pan­do­ra charms from fakes in sev­er­al ways.

• the above mark­ing

Many buy­ers are inter­est­ed in the ques­tion of mark­ing bicol­or beads (these are charms made of gold and sil­ver). What brand should be there? The answer is very sim­ple. These beads assume the hall­mark of sil­ver as they are pre­sent­ed as sil­ver with gold flecks. There is no mark­ing on the gold ele­ments.

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

Bracelets and beads are made of stain­less steel or ordi­nary met­al alloy. Pan­do­ra also does not use sput­ter­ing tech­nol­o­gy in the pro­duc­tion of prod­ucts. The gold ele­ments of the bracelets and the charm are real­ly made of nat­ur­al gold, it is not a coat­ing.

When mak­ing bracelets, rings, pen­dants and charms, the com­pa­ny uses var­i­ous stones (start­ing from bud­get options based on the type of zir­co­ni­um, end­ing with expen­sive dia­monds).

All these nuances will allow you to eas­i­ly dis­tin­guish the orig­i­nal Charms of Pan­do­ra from a cheap fake.

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

Before buy­ing Pan­do­ra jew­el­ry, you need to know how to dis­tin­guish low-qual­i­ty fakes from the orig­i­nal. If you buy a bracelet, first of all, pay atten­tion to the PANDORA inscrip­tion itself.

In this 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 above the let­ter “O”. Pan­do­ra decid­ed to patent this mark­ing back in 2008. Pre­vi­ous­ly, such addi­tion­al mark­ing was not used.

Nowa­days, it is sim­ply impos­si­ble to find orig­i­nal jew­el­ry with­out a crown above the let­ter “O”. Of course, we are talk­ing about the lat­est mod­els of jew­el­ry, not used. Also, don’t for­get that real bracelets are always hard at first. They become soft only after some time socks. Even if you get your hands on an exact copy of the Pan­do­ra bracelet, it will imme­di­ate­ly be soft, just like the weav­ing (it is more reli­able in the orig­i­nal).

• The col­or shade of the orig­i­nal is sig­nif­i­cant­ly dark­er. If you buy the orig­i­nal prod­uct, you will notice that it will not shine as much as a copy. The bracelet will be duller than the usu­al sil­ver jew­el­ry.
• The thread itself has thin bor­ders of weav­ing, on which a clear carv­ing is vis­i­ble.
• The thread in the orig­i­nal is actu­al­ly not bend­able. If you put the jew­el­ry on a flat sur­face, it will remain flat, which is not the case with fakes. Forms of fakes can change.
• The orig­i­nal prod­ucts have a loose­ly fit­ting fas­ten­er. She hangs a lit­tle. In fakes, the fas­ten­er will fit as tight­ly as pos­si­ble, and it will also be small­er in size.

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

Leather bracelets have not yet been per­fect­ed by any­one, 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 an orig­i­nal Pan­do­ra brand watch from a fake by mark­ing and mate­r­i­al. Nat­u­ral­ly, the cost of orig­i­nal jew­el­ry will be much high­er than the price of fake prod­ucts, remem­ber this.