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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.
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: This has gotta be fake, right?
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: http://cgi.ebay.com/OMEGA-SEAMASTER-1425-MENS-WRIST-WATCH-OMEGA-WRIST-WATCH_W0QQitemZ130022961692QQihZ003QQcategoryZ31387QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
plus I've never seen the day and date on a pie-pan, and then there's the strangest back and crown I've ever seen, but two things strike me:
(i) pie pan dials are no longer available but the dial itself does not look too bad*, so the forger would have been better employed making after-market dials or redialing originals to a good standard and
(ii) perhaps they gave the sellers "grand deddy" this watch because they were glad to get rid of him.
I've had a look at the high bidder's profile, he seems to have bought a couple of gold Hamiltons and a few other watch related items in the recent past, including another(?) omega constellation quartz, which looks a bit more real than this one.
* I say that and it may well turn out to be plastic.
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