page_title: Swarovski
section_title: Products
hierarchical_section_title: Swarovski / Products
caption_attribution_description: English: Beetle made of crystal glass and Rhodium. Swarovski company, Austria, about 1976. The beetle, belonging to myself, is permanently located on my windowsill in Sand am Main, Marienstraße, Germany. It is permanently visible from a public way (Marienstraße). The picture is cropped and improved in contrast.
context_page_description: Swarovski is an Austrian producer of glass headquartered in Wattens, Austria, and has existed as a family-owned business since its founding in 1895 by Daniel Swarovski.
  The company is split into three major industry areas: the Swarovski Crystal Business, that primarily produces Crystal glass, jewelry and accessories; Swarovski Optik, which produces optical instruments such as telescopes, telescopic sights for rifles, and binoculars; and Tyrolit, a manufacturer of grinding, sawing, drilling, and dressing tools, as well as a supplier of tools and machines.
  Today, the Swarovski Crystal Business is one of the highest grossing business units within Swarovski, with a global reach of approximately 3,000 stores in roughly 170 countries, more than 29,000 employees, and a revenue of about 2.7 billion euros.
  Swarovski is now run by the fifth generation of family members.
context_section_description: Swarovski produces products such as glass sculptures, miniature, jewelry, rhinestones, home decor, and chandeliers.
  All sculptures are marked with a logo. The original edelweiss flower Swarovski logo was replaced by an S.A.L. logo, which was replaced with the swan logo in 1988.
  Swarovski glass is produced by melting a mixture of quartz sand, soda, potash and other ingredients at high temperatures. Lead, usually used in the form of lead tetroxide, is not used anymore and all Swarovski Crystal glass produced since 2012 has been lead-free. To create crystal glass that lets light refract in a rainbow spectrum, Swarovski coats some of its products with special metallic chemical coatings. For example, Aurora Borealis, or "AB", gives the surface a rainbow appearance. Other coatings are named by the company, including Crystal Transmission, Volcano, Aurum, Shimmer, and Dorado. Coatings may be applied to only part of an object; others are coated twice, and thus are designated AB 2X, Dorado 2X, etc.
  In 2004 Swarovski released Xilion, a copyrighted cut designed to optimize the brilliance of Roses (components with flat backs) and Chatons (diamond cut).
  The Swarovski Group includes Tyrolit (makers of abrasive and cutting tools); Swareflex (reflective and luminous road markings); Swarovski Gemstones (synthetic and natural gemstones); and Swarovski Optik (optical instruments such as binoculars and rifle scopes).
  Since 2006, the Royal Canadian Mint has issued collectors' coins with Swarovski crystal components. The 2006 crystal snowflake coin was gold (face value $300), with the reverse having six lens-shaped iridescent crystals on a snowflake. Subsequent years' crystal snowflake coins have been $20 silver coins featuring different colored crystals. In 2018, the Canadian mint issued twelve different birthstone coins, each with a different Swarovski crystal. The Canadian mint's 12-coin 2019 zodiac series will feature 20 Swarovski crystals on each coin.
  In 2014, Tristan da Cunha issued a five crown Christmas coin in which a small Swarovski crystal is set in the guiding star behind a colored picture of one of the magi.
  In 2018, Equatorial Guinea issued a silver coin with a black Swarovski crystal skull element.
  Swarovski have created a line of liquid and solid perfumes.
caption: Beetle designed as bottle opener, Swarovski, about 1978. Made of Rhodium and crystal glass
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