Concept: Precious metals and their alloys and goods in precious metals or coated therewith, not included in other classes; jewellery, precious stones; horological and chronometric instruments in the ncl vocabulary

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Concept URI	http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/eurostat/ncl/NCL14
Preferred label	Precious metals and their alloys and goods in precious metals or coated therewith, not included in other classes; jewellery, precious stones; horological and chronometric instruments
Definition	Jewellery, whether made of precious metals and precious stones or other materials, and precious stones are clearly distinguished as Class 14 goods. Generally, horological and chronological instruments in Class 14 are for time keeping purposes. Some chronological instruments are in Class 9 if their purpose is the measurement of time rather than keeping track of time. There are some distinctions with decorations for clothing that are in Class 26 such as brooches that are clothing accessories rather than jewellery items in Class 14. However, determining when goods made of precious metal or coated therewith are in Class 14 and when they are in other classes may be difficult to decide. The approach in the Nice Classification is to classify goods that have a specific, functional class in that functional class regardless of the material composition including precious metal. An example of this is tea services. All tea services are classified in Class 21 regardless of their material composition. However, there is no specific functional class for an item such as figurines. Therefore, figurines are classified by the class of their material composition. Thus, figurines of precious metal are in Class 14 while figurines made of other materials are in the classes of those other materials.
Notation	NCL14
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2013-09-18
Accepted Date	2013-09-18
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