so hello welcome back to my channel i'm billie from billie luxe thanks for joining me today
so today's video we're going to do a little bit of a mini unboxing of my new cartier chain love
bracelet and then we're going to do a comparison between my cartier pieces and my van cleef pieces
and we're going to look at the differences the similarities and all of the details of the two
we have our cartier bag seat now the authenticity card comes in an envelope like this
and i will just cover over my number so i can show you what it looks like
now you get a nice long box for the bracelets
inside here we have another box and inside this box we have our beautiful chain bracelet
so here it is
pretty so the first comparison we're going to make is between the packaging so cartier
first thing cleave the cartier item bracelet comes in a beautiful red box with sort of suede
and then some books to hook your item in a nice little gold clip where's your van cleef bracelet
comes in a nice green suede box with a pull out center piece
so that you can loop your bracelet around the back the van glaze boxes are so beautiful and smooth
they are suede all over now travel pouches this is the travel pouch i was given when i purchased
my love bracelet this has two buttons on top a soft couch inside that you can put your bracelet
around the other compartments inside this one so that you could store earrings or a necklace
or something else in there whereas the van cleef & arpel's travel pouch for the five movie bracelets
you can clip your bracelet behind i feel like the clear winner here for
packaging is van cleef i just feel like the suede makes a huge difference it feels very
luxurious and really soft and beautiful patient packaging is just sort of hard
and like a ready maroon color it doesn't feel luxurious like the van cleef one does
now the first thing i do want to say about the van cleef pieces that i own
is that their quality is incredible
you can see that the mother of pearl has been perfectly cut
to fit inside the gold alhambra casing
and then when we're taking a look at the guilloche 5 motif bracelet
in 18 karat yellow gold you can see all of those tiny facets that just shimmer in the
sun every time you move the bracelet it just looks like it is shimmering the whole time
so
now let's take a look at my small rose gold love ring as you can see i have worn this heap so
there is some minor scratching on the piece but you can see how beautiful the craftsmanship is
now we're going to take a closer look at my small rose gold love bracelet as you can see the gold
has oxidized quite a bit and it is throwing a bit more of a yellow tone this is completely normal
with cartier rose gold pieces and i have been told the only way to bring them back to the pink is to
have them polished at the boutique where they take a layer of the gold off you do have to be aware
that this happens with all of their rose gold pieces they all start to oxidize and turn into
yellow gold now we're going to take a closer look at my love chain bracelet
the beautiful dainty chain and then the beautiful love ring
engraving i do want to show you the screwdriver that came with my love bracelet and how incredibly
tarnished it is though oh my gosh the boxes are about to fall on top of me
the next thing we're going to look at is the two chains as you can see the cartier chain
on the left and the van cleef chain on the right
the next thing i want to show you is the clasp of the two the cartier piece on the left and the van
cleef on the right and as you can see the van cleef one is a lot nicer than the cartier one
now when we take a look at the cartier clasp i do have to say it is pretty basic looking
what do you guys think
now i feel like i'm very new to the game of van cleef i feel like social media has really pushed
this brand out lately and it has become very very well known for the alhambra collection
it is very recognizable now i notice on social media it seems like a lot of people that wear
cartier also wear them please together as a staff know too much about the brand at the
time i started looking i stumbled across this pendant on the website and i thought
it was absolutely beautiful this is the 18 karat rose gold with grey mother of pearl
now the grey does have a really beautiful pinky sheen in some of them so i was lucky enough
to be able to get one that had this really beautiful pink sheen in it
now the next piece i added to my collection was actually really hard to get my hands on i had
messaged my sa at van cleef in sydney multiple times asking for this piece it's always on
wait list i mean they never have any in the store she did tell me that they can resize these to 18
centimeters or 17 centimeters so on the van cleef facebook page i have seen people refer to it as
two or four links so i'm assuming that the two lengths shortens it to 18 centimeters and the
four lengths shorten it to 17 centimeters which is what i had done thank you for tuning in today
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