: I have updated the webpage that covers this fake Index Mobile ,
: adding the following daily report:

: Update -- Thursday, November 13, 2008 -- Today, we received
: corroboration from two sources that Dubey & Schaldenbrand
: never made an Index Mobile chronograph for Heuer. First, Mme
: Cinette Robert, President and CEO of Dubey & Schaldenbrand,
: sent an e-mail confirming that, to her knowledge, Dubey never
: manufactured any chronograph for Heuer. She suggested that a
: Heuer dial had been added to an Index Mobile movement to create
: the watch being sold as Lot 39 (and seemed amused at the phrase,
: "custom made"). Second, the author of a article
: detailing the history of the Index Mobile chronographs sent an
: e-mail stating that, to his knowledge, the only companies that
: have produced Index Mobile chronographs were Dubey &
: Schaldenbrand (some of them under the name Edo), Comor, Berney,
: Eberhard and Breitling. He also suggested that for a person who
: had the right parts, it's easy to make an Index Mobile with any
: Landeron, Valjoux or Venus ebauche. That was the goal of George
: Dubey, when he created this simple rattrapante in the 1940's.

: OK, so let's count up the experts on each side of the question.
: Those suggesting that this watch is a fake include (1) a senior
: official at Heuer in Switzerland (during the period), (2) a
: senior Heuer watchmaker (during the period), (3) the current
: President of Dubey & Schaldenbrand, who has been in the
: watch business throughout all relevant periods, (4) one of the
: two gentlemen who has written extensively about the history of
: the Index Mobile chronographs, and (5) one of the world's top
: experts in the history of chronographs, who also has a couple of
: them in his collection. And then we have Antiquorum suggesting
: that this is a "custom made" chronograph, with a
: later, upgraded movement. Maybe the real question here is the
: following: If a lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia can assemble this
: information with a little bit of efffort, why doesn't the
: esteemed auction house look into the history of the pieces that
: it is selling? Perhaps, in this instance, the more information
: you assemble, the lower the value of the watch? Or as they say
: in the U.S. Army, "don't ask, don't tell".
: This will probably be the last pre-auction report . . . now, we
: wait for the auction, to be held Saturday afternoon, in Geneva!!

: Jeff