Tiffany & Co. Jewelry
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The quality of Tiffany fine jewellery is very high; possibly second only, IMO, to Cartier.
They use beautiful diamonds with not only excellent cut, colour and clarity, but also with amazing fire - which is very hard to capture in a photograph, but is very apparent and beautiful IRL.
You can find very good contemporary and vintage pieces at reputable retail jewellers, but as usual, be very careful, particularly if buying from somewhere like eBay; as Tiffany is very heavily faked.
They use beautiful diamonds with not only excellent cut, colour and clarity, but also with amazing fire - which is very hard to capture in a photograph, but is very apparent and beautiful IRL.
You can find very good contemporary and vintage pieces at reputable retail jewellers, but as usual, be very careful, particularly if buying from somewhere like eBay; as Tiffany is very heavily faked.
I think their diamond jewelry is so beautiful and I would have loved to have some of the "leaves" collection (if anyone remembers or has pictures).
For the rest, they make nice silver pieces that can be worn every day. I love the heart on a chain thing but I do see variations (dare I say copies?) everywhere nowadays.
There'll always be the Tiffany's cachet, though. Gotta love that blue box
For the rest, they make nice silver pieces that can be worn every day. I love the heart on a chain thing but I do see variations (dare I say copies?) everywhere nowadays.
There'll always be the Tiffany's cachet, though. Gotta love that blue box
do you really think so ? as before tiffany i would go to winston, vanCleef,graff,moussaieff,boucheron,chopard,schreiner neo haute joaillerie or even degrisogono. tiffany is in fact the last i consider when it comes to real high jewelrychloehandbags said:
lilach said:do you really think so ? as before tiffany i would go to winston, vanCleef,graff,moussaieff,boucheron,chopard,schreiner neo haute joaillerie or even degrisogono. tiffany is in fact the last i consider when it comes to real high jewelry
Sorry, I was attempting to reply to the original post. I probably should have made that clearer, by adding 'of the designers you mentioned'.
However, in my experience, the quality of the stones used in contemporary and vintage Tiffany fine jewellery is very good; sometimes, even better than those used by Cartier!
Of course, the fact that Tiffany & Co. items have become so popular and have, therefore, been so faked; may well have devalued the brand, in some people's eyes. Also, the fact that they offer a larger selection of much lower priced, entry items, than many of the brands you have mentioned, may have affected their popularity amongst (dare I say it!) elitists; although Cartier have finally started to do this too (but to not nearly the same extent, yet), in the last few years.
I think it must be very hard for a luxury goods company, to make the decision as to whether or not they should expand to serve the 'masses', when this may mean that they possibly lose favour amongst some of their higher end clientele.
Apparently, Cartier were very worried about this effect, which is why they put-off producing their entry items, for so long.
Do you mind me asking whether this why you see Tiffany as being akin to Coach, TheImportersWife?
. I do own some Tiffany's, but most of my jewerly are from a private jeweler.
jewlzz said:
tiffany is actually taking ebay to court right now because they did a study last year and found out that 75% of tiffany sold on ebay were fake! people are saying that if tiffany wins (doubt it, i think ebay will just pay them off), this might be the demise of ebay since it is illegal to sell counterfeit goods and tiffany is saying essentially ebay is doing just that.
definately overpriced, but i still love me some tiffany's. 
that said, the sterling is defiantely higher quality than the stuff you buy at the mall. i love that all their pieces have a "substantial" feel to them.
i also think that if *all* your jewelry comes from tiffany, it's time to branch out a little. there's some amazing stuff out there that doesn't nessicarily come in a little blue box.
that said, the sterling is defiantely higher quality than the stuff you buy at the mall. i love that all their pieces have a "substantial" feel to them.
i also think that if *all* your jewelry comes from tiffany, it's time to branch out a little. there's some amazing stuff out there that doesn't nessicarily come in a little blue box.
