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Re: Heuer Carrera 12 Dato / Or is it Clebar ? ? ?

Hi Jeff, well the watch case design has very similar lines to the normal carrera which does look good for authenticity. i don't like the crude inner movement holder this does not look like something heuer would have done. But the thing is that i have seen half a dozen of these all are the same and have correct signed casebacks and movements. Again i don't know what the Clebars have inside them, if they are "heuer" signed then it would suggest the actual heuers maybe redials but if they are Celbar signed or like some other branded watch made by heuer "logo removed" it would point to the Heuer versions more genuine. It would be hard for a Fraudster to obtain numerous Clebar examples to re-dial and even harder to obtain correct signed heuer bridges, as said before all the heuer examples i have seen are the same apart from either pain white dial or Black/white. The dial logos look ok with tiny serifs on the tops of the letters
It has also been mentioned the some dials have more sunken sub-dials. I wonder if Heuer may have changed dial manufactures at the time as this happened at rolex a few time showing tiny differences.
I do have one of these examples and clearly would prefer it to be genuine but also i would rather have the mystery solved. I have had it for a long time and never offered it for sale in the fear of it not being genuine.
I will take some photos over the next few days.
Nic

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