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LOL, Kevin. You're confused!
The instagram watch is from Paolo, a well known and highly respected collector.
He is offering a fully correct mint watch, with an unengraved caseback with the original protective manufacturer's purple blob. But it has no engraving, where all others I've seen clearly show the military marks.
I think the military engravings were NOT done by Heuer: they differ too much to be factory made, probably done by a guy in the quartermaster's workshop. Maybe Paolo's watch was "organized" by someone in that shop, or maybe Heuer produced a few more than the exact quantity ordered. That will remain one of the many mysteries.
What I do know is that some were issued to the aspiring aviators of the flightschool of the Belgium Airforce:
The class of the original owner of 70/006.
The ebay watch (70/240) was sold by a shyster called ChronoAddict, which makes the insiders here very wary...
Caseback 240 was polished. The caseback 006 is unpolised. The engravings are really very similar, Except for the 3 where the engraver slipped on the upstroke. Another thing to note is that the numbers before and after 240 have a different and deeper engraving. It gets more confusing as ChronoAddict posted his pics BEFORE 70/006 surfaced. All in all I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt here. But doubt will linger just because it's ChronoAddict.
My 2 cents.
Jurgen
: :
: Why is the engraving on the eBay watch wrong according to you? I
: have asked the seller of the instagram watch and there is no
: engraving present at all. Movement seems correct though. Is this
: a no-go then?
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