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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cartier watch or live bracelet. As much as people LOL at them, they’re on the wrist of everyone who’s anyone sorry. [/quote]

Like Betheny Frankel?

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Follow the herd poster, follow the herd.[/quote]

The thing about popular “herd” pieces are these are the ones that actually do hold their value. Like the Chanel double flap mentioned in this thread, if you needed to sell it, you easily could. You won’t be able to say the same of the tweed bum bag that are popular now. [/quote]

Right, but is the purpose of jewelry to buy something you can resell?  [/quote]

The point of buying pieces that retain their value is to have the option. [/quote]

Any gold jewelry retains its value because gold has inherent value independent of the designer.  Decades from now if you are that desperate or want to get rid of it you can sell based on the weight of the item if nothing else.  You don’t need to pay for a designer piece that has been marked up if that’s not something you really love and want to have.[/quote]

The weight and purity of gold in most of the items discussed here aren't going to return much on melt value alone even if the price of gold hits historic highs. The scrap value right now (with gold quite  high) of a 18k bracelet of the Cartier love or the same size is around 1400 dollars (and you can never recover 100 percent of scrap if you sell on gold value alone).

A 7 inch Alhambra bracelet has a scrap value of around 450 dollars (I realize there's different variations with different amounts of gold and other materials but they all don't have a lot of gold) since they have less gold.[/quote]

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