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Swarovski
is a brand of artificial crystals made from highest
lead content glass components. Swarovski are regarded as the
premier quality machine cut and polished crystal jewelries
in the world. The Swarovski brand of crystals are
exclusively produced and named by its owner, Daniel
Swarovski who patented the machine that was capable to cut
the crystals with exact precision. Swarovski crystal started
over one hundred years ago in the Alps of Austria.
Aside
for the special compound of Swarovski that creates jewelries
with incredible brilliance of crystals, the subtle colour
palette is another aspect that sets Swarovski crystal
components apart from others. Swarovski crystals are
perfectly consistent and uniform. Since they are machine
cut, each crystal is very identical.
With so
many crystal beaded jewelries and imitations out there,
there are some techniques on how to determine which
jewelries are genuinely created by Swarovski. Swarovski
jewelries are packed in elegantly designed box with swan
hologram. A hand polished imitated crystal beads will not
have uniform and precise cuts. Size differences from
crystals or beads are likewise noticeable in imitated
Swarovski jewelry.
Further
more, the facets of genuine Swarovski crystals have a
perfect meeting of the points which is impossible in
imitated crystals. Real Swarovski jewelries are perfect and
without any bubbles or scratches on its surface. The
imitations often have scratches, swirl marks or waxy looking
surface. Lastly, Swarovski crystal will really out-sparkle
any crystal of lesser quality when placed in a side-by-side
comparison.
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