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A forum for identifying and avoiding wholly or partially non-authentic wristwatches -- including counterfeit, replica, Frankenwatches and other fake or bastardized pieces. Our objective here is to DISCOURAGE the sales and purchase of counterfeit wristwatch and jewelry products. It is also for helping people identify watches that are mostly authentic, but have been: altered for personal customization, repaired with inappropriate parts or modified to be passed off as more valuable pieces.

Including a photo of the piece you are talking about ALWAYS helps! You can learn how to post a photo here: How To Include Photos In Your Postings. 'For sale' postings, commercial solicitation and ads are not allowed. Links to Internet auctions are acceptable only if their purpose is to question the authenticity of a product or provide new clues for identifying counterfeit products. Links that appear to be 'shills' promoting the sale of counterfeit products will be deleted. Links to websites of sellers of counterfeit items are not permitted -- we know they are out there and do not need to be encouraging them by sending traffic to their sites. Privacy, additional policies and administrivia are covered in the Terms of Use.

Re: Is this real?
In Response To: Re: Is this real? ()

: I am not familiar with the posting procedure.

See the heading PHOTOS on this page:
http://chronocentric.com/forums/chronotrader/policies.shtml

: If you will please tell me what pictures to
: take I can send them to you by email.

You can email them to me at editor@chronocentric.com. Just some clear, in focus shots of the face, back and clasp of the watch would be fine.

: would also appreciate an answer to the
: points I brought up regarding the bezel
: turns as well as the crystal glare.

No idea what this guy is talking about with 120 clicks. The bezel on mine seems to be ratcheted to only 60 positions.

Also, no way I can respond to the crystal glare issue. That is a purely subjective assessment on his part. To see whether this was a real issue or pure bullcrap, I'd have to directly examine the watch myself and compare it to others similar OMEGA models.

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