The Renowned Swarovski Standpoint
Long related to luxury goods similar to fine crystal glass miniatures and chandeliers, Austrian manufacturer Swarovski has over a century of knowledge that offers them an unbeatable competitive advantage when it comes to such goods as rhinestone diamond simulants.
Created from rock crystal, glass, or even acrylic, the most faithful cases almost rival the cost of real diamonds in some cases!
That’s because fine Swarovski rhinestones can produce rainbow effects similar to the real thing.
Due to special coatings and production processes, many will even sparkle in the sunlight or exhibit some other qualities of a genuine diamond.
But for all the verisimilitude, just about the most tell-tale qualities entail its inherent softness, given a rhinestone by the lead in its arrangement, making edges and even facets rather easily scratched and quickly rounded.
Such tell-tale signs require but fairly modest magnification to spot.
Modern manufacturing methods may also give things away, such as the molds used in lieu of traditional cutting, making for rather obvious seams.
It’s all done in Wattens, Austra, where the company even operates a small indoor theme park at a local shoppping mall.
Near historic Innsbruck in the scenic southern Tyrol region of alpine valleys, Swarovski quality is so famous that every year since 2004 the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in New York City has been graced by a star from the company, quality that could have made its eponymous founder, Daniel, proud.
He was born more than a hundred years ago in 1862 to a glass-cutter who also owned a small glass factory of his own, and was from a young age quite experienced at the craft himself, even being able to carry on to patent his own electric cutting machine at the age of thirty, a device that significantly facilitated the mass production of lead crystal glass jewelry.