Bravat Faucets By Dietsche Review & Rating Updated: September 12, 2025

Summary
Imported
China Flag
China
Bravat GmbH
21st floor,
Poly Int'l Plaza, South Tower
No.1 Pa Zhou Avenue E.
Hai Zhu District
Guangzhou City
Guangdong 510308 China
Business Type
Product Range
Kitchen and Bath Faucets
Certifications:
Brands
Bravat
Street Price
Bravat: $360-$2,100
Warranty Score1
Cartridge
None
Finishes
3 Years
Mechanical Parts
None
Proof of Purchase
Not Required
Transferable
No
Meets U.S. Warranty
Law Requirements
Not

Warranty Footnotes

1. Only the finishes on a faucet are guaranteed and then for just three years. The company "will, at its election, repair, replace, or make appropriate adjustments where an inspection by the company or its afWiliates … discloses any defects in materials and workmanship occurring in normal … usage.

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This Company In Brief

Bravat GmbH sells Chinese-made faucets along with other sanitary wares, including sinks, shower components, tubs, and accessories.

Bravat faucets are sold over the internet by two retailers in the U.S. As far as we can determine, they are not sold in Canada.

Some of the Bravat faucets are distinctive designs and a few have won design awards, but most are fairly typical Chinese faucets of no particular design distinction.

The Bravat products were, at one time, manufactured in Germany by Roman Dietsche GmbH. No longer. Now they are manufactured by Chinese companies under contract to Bravat.

The Company

Bravat is a brand name introduced by Roman Dietsche GmbH, a German company founded in 1873 to manufacture rooms and brushes. It was successful for most of a century, producing high-quality wood and fiber products.

Roman Detsche

By the 1960s faced with growing competition from cheaper Asian imports, it turned to the manufacture of bathroom fittings and accessories, selling under the Roman Dietsch, Bravat, and brands.

The change in focus, however, did not save the company in the long run.

It was ordered into bankruptcy in 2008, [1] and its assets purchased out of bankruptcy in the same year by IBP Glo­bal Trad­ing, Ltd., a holding company based in the U.K.

Over the next few years, IBP relocated the design and production of Roman Detsche sanitary products to China. It closed the last of Dietsche's German factories in 2015. Dietsche's original headquarters was shuttered and its administration merged into IBP offices in Linden, Germany.

For a few years, faucet manufacturing was taken over by Bravat Plumbing Industrial Co., Ltd., established in 2000 in Shanghai. It no longer does manufactures and its website, "bravat.com," has disappeared from the internet.

Bravat faucets are now manufactured by Main­land Chin­ese sanitary wares manufacturers under contract to Bravat.

The eviscerated Ro­man Dietsche has been reduced to a shell company. Its sole value is its nearly two-century long pedigree.

The pedigree allows Bravat affiliates to claim a German manufacturing heritage dating back to 1873, neglecting to mention that the company is only superficially German and does not manufacture in Germany.

It is why the faucets can be, and always are, promoted as "Bravat by Dietsche - 1873" rather than just Bravat.

The Bravat brand, which is a registered trademark in the U.S., U.K., E.U., and China is Roman Dietsche's only real asset and the only reason the company still exists. According to North Data, however, Roman Dietsche no longer actually owns the trademark. It has simply licensed its use to identify Bravat products.

Bravat GmbH

Originally a brand name for Roman Detsche products, Bravat became it own company as Bravat GmbH, a German limited liability company, organized by by IBP in 2014.

Although chartered in Germany, it operates in and is managed from China and is often written as Bravat (China) BmbH to clarify its affiliation. Wanyi Guo has been its chairman since March 2023.

It handles the licensing of Bravat retailers and the acquisition and distribution of Bravat products, often through intermediaries, although practices differ from country to country.

In North America, its subsidiaries are Bravat Plumbing Industrial LLC and Bravat International LLC both chartered in Delaware. However, they don't appear to actually do anything. They have no operating address, listed telephone number, or web presence.

The Manufacturers

Bravat does not manufacture any of its faucets sold in North America.

The manufacturers that we have identified through customs and certification records include:

Bravat also imports from two other manufacturers but sells faucets made by these companies in other countries, not in the U.S. or Canada as of the date of this report. That certainly could change at any time.

Faucet Brands

Bravat and are the company's faucet brands.

is Bra­vat's mid-priced line of decorative fixtures, sanitary wares, and accessories that focuses on ease-of-installation and appears to be largely aimed at the do-it-yourselfer market. (We review this brand separately. Click on the name to go to the review.)

Bravat is its premium line. Its products are distributed worldwide, including Eastern Eur­ope, the Mid­dle East, parts of As­ia, including Vi­et­nam where it has a major preence, and Oce­an­ia (Aust­ral­ia, New Zea­land, and the Pac­ific island nations).

A selection of Bravat's award-winning faucet designs. None of these faucet are certified for sale or use in North America.

Faucet Design

Some Bravat faucets are original designs created by the company. Where and by whom, inside the company or by outside designers, we simply do not know.

Bravat faucets have won international design awards for its innovative designs. These includd numerous iF awards, Several Red Dot awards, and at least one prestigeous Good Design award.

Its talented in-house design staff that includes Baogou Li, Caiyun Huang, Zhirong Li, Zhengtie Yu, Zhenguang Wu, and Weicong Luo, shows how far Chinese product design has advanced in the past two decaldes and is a group to watch.

Unfortunately, none of these award-winning designs is sold in North America.

Originality in Chinese faucet design is still not typical, however. Bravat's award-winning designs are the exception rather than the rule.

Most faucets manufactured by Chinese companies tend to follow the pack rather than lead it. The goal of Asian faucet manufacturers is to sell as many faucets as possible, which means keeping their designs well within the mainstream to appeal to as many potential buyers as possible.

Designs are often adopted from Eur­ope and North America. A style that sells well in these major markets will often be imitated by Asian factories with minor variations to avoid patent infringement lawsuits.

Bravat Dora kitchen faucet.

The lag time is usually 3 to 5 years, so by the time a design appears in a Chinese faucet, it is no longer new. Most Bravat faucets fall into this category. The designs are pleasant enough but getting dated.

Faucet Quality

Bravat faucet quality is good. In our examination of test faucets, we pay special attention to the finish, the ceramic valve cartridge, and the aerator. Other factors contribute to a faucet's functioning and appearance, but none is as important or as prone to failure as these three.

Finishes

The faucets were well finished using what appear to be and processes. Both result in durable finishes. Chinese finishes have improved a great deal over the last quarter-century, and now equal any produced anywhere. The risk of peeling China chrome is long gone.

Electroplating is good, resullting in a durable, long-lasting finish. But PVD is even better, up to 20 times more scratch-resistant than electroplated chrome.

When selecing a faucet finish other than chrome, always make sure you know how it was produced. If customer service can't tell you and its not on the company's website, move on to another faucet. Some finishing processes are merely semi-durable with about the same scratch and mas resistance as the paint paint on your car.

Learn more about the various faucet finishing processes at Faucet Basics, Part 5: Faucet Finishes.

Ceramic Valve Cartridge

What makes a faucet work is its valve cartridge, the device that controls water flow rate and, in single-handle faucets, water temperature. This critical component needs to be the best available.

Bravat'valve cartridges are Chinese rather than the more respected European valves. The ones we examined, however, were from familiar technical ceramics manufacturers in China with good to excellent reputations.

Valves in certified faucets have been durability tested through 500,000 on-off cycles or about 78 years of regular kitchen or bathroom use. They have also been tested to ten times ordinary household water pressure to see if they could be made to leak. Any faucet that passes both tests includes a valve that is of more than satisfactory durability.

Learn about the various type of faucet valves at Faucet Basics, Part 2: Faucet Valves & Cartridges.

Aerators

, the other critical component of a faucet, are also of Asian origin. China has so many manufacturers of this device that we don't even try to keep track.

None of the Bravat faucets we examined included precision-engineered aerators like those made by the Swiss company, Neoperl, considered the world's best, or the equally capable Amfag S.r.l. in Italy, but they did appear to be more than merely adequate.

Faucet aerators can be simple devices that merely add a little air to soften the water stream so it does not splash out of the sink. Until late in the 20th century, they were often just a few layers of window screen.

Since Neoperl pioneered the precision-engineered aerator in the 1950s, however, they are also used to limit water volume to the lower flows required by federal and state water conservation laws, and in some cases, to prevent backflow that can result in the contamination of household drinking water.

It is important, therefore, that this little device works well and is completely reliable. We found nothing about the Bravat aerators that gave us cause for concern.

Bravat in North America

Bravat has no more than a minimal infrastructure in North America. Two of its U.S. subsidiaries, Bravat Plumbing Industrial LLC and Bravat International LLC both chartered in Delaware, don't appear to actually do anything. They have no operating address, listed telephone number, or web presence. They are essentially shell companies.

The lack of infrastructure means that there is no Bravat customer service in the U.S. or Canada. Bravat at one time had a toll-free customer service telephone number. It no longer does.

It provides an email address through which North American customers may contact the company for support or replacement parts, but as support is from China, do not expect quick results.

Bravat's Gaia basin faucet in chrome.

Where to Buy

Bravat has a small start-up operation in the North American market, Chiarabella Gallery in Georgia, beginning with 23 of its faucet models fully certified to North American standards.

Chiarebella is a a trade name used by Rational K&B, Inc., a Georgia corporation founded in 2023. The tradename "Rational" as a registered U. S. trademark covering sanitary ware was applied for by Bravat GmbH in 2023, but the application was abandoned. Reational's chief financial officer, Wanyi Guo, appears to be the same Wanyi Guo as Bravat GmbH's CEO.

Rational K&B is a regional kitchen design company centered on Atlanta that features German-made cabinets from Rational, a brand acquired by Bravat with its purcase of the Rational Einbauküchen GmbH in 2021. It also sells fully certified Bravat faucets, but very few of them. As of the date of this report, its website offers just six of the 23 faucet models legal for sale in the U.S. and Canada.

It has yet to have any significant impact on the North American market.

A second vendor, member companies of the , do not sell certified Bravat models. They sell Bravat faucet models approved for use in the United Kingdom and (possibly) the Eurozone. These faucets are not legal to sell or install in North America.

More than one industry source told us that Horizon acquired these faucets in Europe as a one-time purchase. The company is not, as far as we can determine, an authorized Bravat retailer.

Bravat Warranty

Bravat claims to have a written warranty on its faucets. The warranty document has proven very elusinve, however. The only warranty we have found so far is issued by Rational K&B, Inc. rather than Bravat itself.

It was clearly not written by a lawyer and makes three basic mistakes. The first is trying to include all of the company's products in one warranty, something that almost never works out well. The second is attempting to combine commercial and residential warranties in the same document.

The third is failing to comply with the requirements of the U.S. Mag­nu­son-Moss War­ranty Act (15 U.S.C. § 2301).

Only the finishes on Bravat faucets are guaranteed, for a mere three years. Nothing else except valve cartridges, the heart of a modern faucet, which are not guaranteed at all except for "being free of defects in materials and workmanship at the time of purchase."

It is, on examination, barely a warranty at all.

Testing and Certification

Bravat fau­cets sold by Chiarebella have been tested by an independent laboratory and found to comply with all of the laws and regulations governing the installation of drinking water fau­cets in North A­mer­i­ca.

These include the very strict North A­mer­i­can lead-free and drinking-water safety standards.

Bravat faucets sold by the Horizon Group companies are European versions of the faucets. They have not been tested and certified to North American standards.

Only faucets certified to comply with North A­mer­i­can standards may be legally used in a drinking water system in any State or Territory of the U.S. or any Canadian Province.

The following summary applies only to Bravat faucets sold by Chiarebella and not to the Horizon Group or any vendor selling on eBay.

Comparable Faucets

Fully comparable faucets imported from Asia comparable to Bravat include:

Conclusions

The purchase of a Bravat faucet at this time has many downsides.

As an importer and distributor, Bravat has the potential to become a major player in North America. Some of the key elements are there, including good design, quality manufacturing, and full compliance with North American standards, but many are lacking.

It needs to knock off the "lets all pretend we're German" nonsense. It's a pretense that evaporates very quickly when any reasonable inquiry is made. It needs a strong lifetime manufacturer's warranty, vastly improved North American support infrastructure, a greatly increased faucet selection (including its award-winning designs), and an expanded dealer network so its faucets are more widely available.

Until all of that is done, we suggest purchasing a Bravat faucet with some caution and a clear understanding of the risks.

Continuing Research

We are continuing to research Bravat and its sink faucets. If you have experience with fau­cets from Bravat, good, bad, or indifferent, we would like to hear about it, so please contact us at starcraftreviews@yahoo.com or post a comment below.

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Footnotes:

  1. Robert Bergmann, Badhersteller Dietsche ist insolvent, Badishe Zeitung Jan 26, 2008 https://www.badische-zeitung.de.