Handbags & leather goods

The most counterfeited category in luxury, and the hardest to authenticate by eye. When a fake is built on genuine tooling, only the brand’s own approval separates it from the real thing.

Handbags are among the highest-value targets for superfakes, and the fakes are getting harder to spot. Some of the best come out of the same supply chain as the real thing: factories that hold genuine tooling and patterns, or the facilities that ship finished goods to retailers, repurposed by criminals to produce or divert fabricated merchandise.

When a fake is built from the same materials on the same machines, inspection stops working. There is nothing about the stitching, the hardware or the lining to catch, because those details are genuine. What separates the two units is authorization, and authorization is exactly what a physical inspection cannot see.

Rethentic gives the brand approval over every unit. A bag is only real if the brand signed it into the ledger, so an unauthorized run from a legitimate factory verifies as what it is: not approved. The chip integrates easily with leather goods and can be placed during manufacture without changing how the piece is made or how it looks.