About Us
We are part of an informal community of like minded specialists, who embrace and uphold the intrinsic value of the authentic heritage luxury and the authentic contemporary luxury worlds.
Together we provide a collective authority to protect consumers and sustain a vibrant pre-loved, high end resale market.
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Our Commitment to You:
Our professional opinions are provided ‘in good faith’, based on the photographic evidence you have provided; our opinions are informed by accumulated experience and limited ultimately by the quality and transparency of photographic evidence; if we need additional photographic evidence we will ask you; if we can not be certain of an authentication we will tell you and explain why; this is our firm commitment to you.
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Ethical Practices:
We adhere to ethical business practices (and accept assignments on the understanding our clients willingly align with these practices)
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Multi-elemental Evaluation:
Photographic evidence is evaluated through a holistic assessment of the key elemental components, and their contextual interdependence.
Elemental components include Hallmarks, Hardware, Stitching, Symmetry, Materials, Craftsmanship, Stampings, Alphanumerical Codes, Holograms, Packaging and visual features of Micro-Chips (generally Micro-Chips feature encryption by the manufacturer for data protection purposes)
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Disclaimers:
We are not certified by, endorsed by, sponsored by, affiliated to or connected to Chanel or Louis Vuitton.
All opinions expressed by our authenticators are explicitly and expressly provided as opinions, on a best endeavours basis.
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Evaluations may identify modifications, repairs and damage disguise interventions, however, given the technical limitations of a photographic evidence based approach, it is not possible to guarantee such interventions will be identified.
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We are highly trained to verify the authenticity, the identity and the condition of the luxury products.
The validation process is unique with its own mix of assessment criteria and differs according to the category.
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You may choose to instruct us to receive an up to date and faithful current market value price range for your specific item.
This price range will be benchmarked to real prices achieved, not asking prices, the default region this benchmarking exercise will apply to is the United Kingdom & Continental Europe and will be provided in GBP.
For international price benchmarking in USD we are equally well placed to provide this assessment with a high degree of confidence, and are at your disposal for this, on your request.
We ensure we are up to date on market prices at all times and understand and navigate the nuances between the markets.
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