Cartier Love Bracelet - Without or With 4 Diamonds?

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#197
I'm very partial to the diamonds. I've read time and time again of people posting here that they regret "settling" for the plain one and now they have to sell it and lose money in order to get the one they truly want with diamonds.
 
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#198
I appreciate you all for taking your time with your inputs. Probably have a few weeks to decide as cartier have closed down until further notice.

if anyone else wants to share their opinions feel free, as I love reading what all you amazing people think :)
 
#199
I am also taking advantage of the temporary closure to take my time to make a decision regarding my 2nd love bracelet.
I have the plain YG and trying to decide between the 4 and the 10 diamonds.
Honestly, I know I want the 4 diamonds just because I love the screw motif that much!

If it was my only one, I’d definitely go for the 4 diamond one :smile:
 
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XCCX said:
I am also taking advantage of the temporary closure to take my time to make a decision regarding my 2nd love bracelet.
I have the plain YG and trying to decide between the 4 and the 10 diamonds.
Honestly, I know I want the 4 diamonds just because I love the screw motif that much!

If it was my only one, I’d definitely go for the 4 diamond one :smile:
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Thank you for your input :) you are so right, with the 4 diamond you get the best of two worlds with the screw motif since it is my first and I probably won’t get an additional for a couple of years :)

keep me posted what you decide to go for ! :) x
 
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#202
I avoid white diamonds because though they’re pretty I know they’re basically valueless. I have two plain Loves but if I wanted something a little more flashy I’d get colored gemstones.
 
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#203
I will be ordering the RG 4 diamond classic love this week to go with RG small love. I debated between the two also, but I think the extra oomph will make my stacking more special. Ironically, my husband knew I would want some diamonds on it and went straight to looking at the ones with diamonds online - guess he knows diamonds are a girl's best friend!

I'm very excited, but it will probably take longer to arrive since we are getting it engraved for our anniversary (so I better like it! haha).
 
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New here. Please help. Do your classic love and diamond love stack perfectly? Or is the diamond love a little thicker/wider looking? My original is pretty old and not stacking perfectly w diamond new design one.
 
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kim_mac said:
also fyi - the 4 diamond bracelet is slightly thicker (more metal) than the plain and has more glow coming from the metal. i didn't know this until the SA pointed it out.
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@LaAlan - I wonder if this is why. It was the first I ever heard of it, but I suppose it makes sense. It's also one of the reasons why I decided to go with the 4 diamond one, which my husband and I just ordered online. I hope it will stack well or perfectly with the small love, but I haven't heard anyone mention anything about it previously.

While we are on the topic, my husband and I decided to hold off on the engraving because as it turns out, the 4 diamond only allows 4 characters, which includes spacing as characters, making it extremely difficult to engrave anything meaningful on it. We wanted to do his FIRST INITIAL (space) HEART symbol (space) MY INITIAL - (this is on our wedding bands with mine the opposite), but that's 5 characters in total when you include the spacing between the heart. We might have to go with no spaces, but we didn't know how that would look aesthetically so we decided to hold off until we can go inquire in person in an actual boutique for the engraving.
 
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Chaton said:
@LaAlan - I wonder if this is why. It was the first I ever heard of it, but I suppose it makes sense. It's also one of the reasons why I decided to go with the 4 diamond one, which my husband and I just ordered online. I hope it will stack well or perfectly with the small love, but I haven't heard anyone mention anything about it previously.

While we are on the topic, my husband and I decided to hold off on the engraving because as it turns out, the 4 diamond only allows 4 characters, which includes spacing as characters, making it extremely difficult to engrave anything meaningful on it. We wanted to do his FIRST INITIAL (space) HEART symbol (space) MY INITIAL - (this is on our wedding bands with mine the opposite), but that's 5 characters in total when you include the spacing between the heart. We might have to go with no spaces, but we didn't know how that would look aesthetically so we decided to hold off until we can go inquire in person in an actual boutique for the engraving.
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My wife has 3 traditional Loves and one thin. (One full diamond, one 4 diamond, one no diamond and thin full diamond). They stack perfectly together. As for the engraving, her full diamond has 11 characters engraved, it's quite small though. If they were able to fit 11 on the full diamond, I don't know why they are saying you can only have 4 characters. Her 4 diamond has 7 characters, but this one is about 10 years old and maybe they've changed their policy??
 
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avcbob said:
My wife has 3 traditional Loves and one thin. (One full diamond, one 4 diamond, one no diamond and thin full diamond). They stack perfectly together. As for the engraving, her full diamond has 11 characters engraved, it's quite small though. If they were able to fit 11 on the full diamond, I don't know why they are saying you can only have 4 characters. Her 4 diamond has 7 characters, but this one is about 10 years old and maybe they've changed their policy??
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This is very helpful, and thank you for your response. If you go online, you can see it only allows 4 characters on the 4 diamond. For the plain, it allows 10 characters. We called them on the phone, and as it turns out, the SA also stated you can only engrave 4 characters (after initially stating you can't engrave at all and after overlooking that what we wanted was 5 characters). I was sort of shocked that they are not better informed as he had to check on the engraving after we stated the site allows it. It's ok - since he was really patient and nice even if lacking knowledge on their products.

Did you do it in-house, where they send it off to NY, or a third-party? I know I have seen others have theirs engraved on a blog before, but she stated it was sent to a third party and she could fit more than the standard on the 4 diamond. However, it was not as centered as she would have liked. I prefer to have it done by Cartier in-house. With what you have said is good info, hopefully, we can persuade them to make it smaller and place more characters also!! Thanks again!
 
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Chaton said:
This is very helpful, and thank you for your response. If you go online, you can see it only allows 4 characters on the 4 diamond. For the plain, it allows 10 characters. We called them on the phone, and as it turns out, the SA also stated you can only engrave 4 characters (after initially stating you can't engrave at all and after overlooking that what we wanted was 5 characters). I was sort of shocked that they are not better informed as he had to check on the engraving after we stated the site allows it. It's ok - since he was really patient and nice even if lacking knowledge on their products.
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Did you do it in-house, where they send it off to NY, or a third-party? I know I have seen others have theirs engraved on a blog before, but she stated it was sent to a third party and she could fit more than the standard on the 4 diamond. However, it was not as centered as she would have liked. I prefer to have it done by Cartier in-house. With what you have said is good info, hopefully, we can persuade them to make it smaller and place more characters also!! Thanks again!
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Yes, all of our engraving was done by Cartier. It was sent out, maybe to New York, but done by them. We are talking about engraving on the inside of the bracelet, correct?? I've heard that Cartier can be persnickety about repairs and polishing if you have it engraved by anyone but them. If you'd like, drop me a PM and I'll see if I can find a photo to send you.

I haven't seen the engraving on my Wife's Loves for many years, but I'm assuming it's still there!
 
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avcbob said:
Yes, all of our engraving was done by Cartier. It was sent out, maybe to New York, but done by them. We are talking about engraving on the inside of the bracelet, correct?? I've heard that Cartier can be persnickety about repairs and polishing if you have it engraved by anyone but them. If you'd like, drop me a PM and I'll see if I can find a photo to send you.

I haven't seen the engraving on my Wife's Loves for many years, but I'm assuming it's still there!
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Yes, engraving on the inside. I will send you a PM - thanks for taking the time to do this for me!
 
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