Birkin/Kelly Hardware: GH or PH

[lil*miz*vixen]

Hi Birkin & Kelly Girls,
i've noticed that most of you tend to favor/purchase palladium hardware rather than gold hardware. Other than matching your hardware with your jewellery (gold jewellery with gold hardware / diamonds & platinum jewellery with PH)...

Can you tell us what is your reason to favor one type of hardware over another?
also, is it true that H will no longer make birkin/kelly in gold hardware?
thanks alot of your input~

 

[isus]

Hello, lil.....don't know about H no longer making Birkin/Kelly in gold h/w.....I have not heard about that....but, I don't favor one over the other.

I wouldn't turn down a bag I really wanted ( leather, color ) just because of the hardware......do you have a preference and would you?

 

[lil*miz*vixen]

i have a preference over GH, but i dont use any gold jewellery, rather diamonds & platinum... i just feel GH looks more elegant & classy... but is PH more scratch resistant, or its just abt the same?

 

[SCL]

I wear white gold predominately...

I have one black bag with GH and two black bags with PH...love them all... H has "cured" me of my OCD regarding hardware match...

 

[crochetbella]

I love GH but my 1st H bag has PH (its BJ and I love BJ with PH) and my 2nd will probably have PH too because I want a black JPG Kelly and I think the PH will make it easier to wear for both day and evening. But I want my future Birkin to have gold HW because I have a gold Hippo cadena and think he'd look so cute on a Rouge H or Noisette Birkin.

 

[lovehermes]

I can't imagine H not making gold hardware anymore on the Birkin/Kelly...where did you hear this? I favor gold hardware...looks classic.

 

[Grands Fonds]

I like both - for me it depends on the colour of the bag, not my jewellery or other reasons. For instance, i love gold h/w on gold, browns, and funnily enough, Blue Jean (but we all know I'm a bit of a weirdo). I also like it on Navy and Black. (My black boc Kelly has Pall h/w though - go figure...)
I don't think Hermes will ever discontinue gold hardware. It was the first hardware metal they used, after nickel.....interestingly in Europe, gold jewellery is back in vogue, and gold hardware is making a HUGE comeback in Hermes bags.

 

[lovehermes]

^^I love gold hardware on blue jean too!!

 

[Grands Fonds]

It's funny, LH, isn't it? When I think about it, it sounds like a terrible combination, but when I see it, I love it...

 

[Greentea]

I used to be a palladium only person but now I've began to love gold HW, too on some bags.

 

[Kellybag]

both hw choices are lovely...I just think some leather colors look better with certain hw than others.

 

[lovehermes]

It's funny, LH, isn't it? When I think about it, it sounds like a terrible combination, but when I see it, I love it...

I love it too...it's so retro! I have been checking Ebay and so many Birkins have palladium hardware...now I love gold!

 

[S'Mom]

I love the way gold just glows though against some colors - Gold against Gold or Caramel or Noisette just really glows!!! Ruthenium against black is just beautiful IMO. So....I think it's not so much what jewelery I choose to wear....more maybe how the hardware stands against the color/leather of the bag itself.

 

[PGN]

I've always been a palladium lover but as I am searching ebay and all the pf threads I am leaning towards gold......and I've ALWAYS been a silver person! There is something about gold that is so rich looking....but-I wouldn't turn down a bag based on hardware!

 

[lil*miz*vixen]

i dunno, but i've read it somewhere on PF or a blog...
i'm so glad its not true, coz i want GH very badly... LOL~