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 Post subject: authentic ?
PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:38 am 
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190951844937? ... 1423.l2649
Hi please can someone confirm this is real and if it is would the bracelet be solid or plated gold ? thank you


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Two-tone bracelets are plated, not solid.

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Sharkmouth wrote:
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Two-tone bracelets are plated, not solid.


Technically rolled gold - a sheet of 20 micron thick gold laminated to a steel core rather than a molecular level plating process which is essentially a PVD like process, but not solid.


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