Save you a lot of money, how to distinguish real alligator leather from alligator faux leather?

Daydaywatchband——Handmade custom real alligator leather watch straps

Hello everyone, this is Daydaywatchband, a brand that focuses on making real alligator leather hand-made custom high-end custom leather watch straps. We often need to purchase various kinds of genuine leather, such as alligator, cowhide, etc. In the process of purchasing leather, it is important to know how to distinguish real crocodile leather from fake leather.

In the process of purchasing leather to make custom watch straps, we found a very scary thing, many sellers of leather will sell alligator faux leather with cowhide as the real crocodile skin, so as to get a huge profit. Their counterfeiting technology is very strong, For many consumers who are not familiar with real crocodile skin, it is easy to spend a lot of money but buy fake croc leather, so today we want to teach you how to distinguish between real alligator skin and fake crocodile skin.

First of all, let’s take a look at the comparison between real and fake crocodile skin.

So from the picture, we can clearly distinguish what is the difference between real crocodile skin and faux crocodile leather.

How to identify the real alligator hide and faux crocodile leather?

We can identify the real alligator hide and faux crocodile leather according to the following three points

1. The curvature of the leather grain

The veins of real crocodile skin have a natural bend and are not completely vertical or parallel. And the crocodile belly veins imitated with cowhide are the veins pressed by machine, such veins are very dull and stiff, almost parallel or vertical. And the arrangement is very neat. If your crocodile skin products have such a grain, there is a high chance that they are fake crocodile skin.

2. Alligator leather width of seams

The seam of real alligator hide is very narrow at the joint of the grain, which is basically a line. It can be easily folded 180 degrees, while fake croc leather has a wide seam at the grain joint because it is a whole cowhide with a machine-pressed grain, and it is difficult to bend completely 180 degrees.

3. Surface smoothness of leather

The real alligator skin will have natural grain lines on each check, while the alligator faux leather surface is smoother, and there is basically no grain inside each check.

These are the three more obvious differences between real crocodile skin and imitation crocodile skin. According to these criteria, even if you are a consumer who rarely buys American alligator leather product, you can easily tell the difference between real and fake crocodile skin. Thus, you can avoid spending the money of real crocodile skin but buying fake goods.

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