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Red/white Heuer service box: my experience...

I saw that there are some problems to recognize genuine red/white service boxes from modern fake one.
In the past I saw different badge of production of fake and, for curiosity, I always bought them to study...
The next picture show the difference between a 100% original one of '80 (bought from italian service centre for AMI, the only one in Italy that can service AMI in '80 and '90 in official form) and a new fake recently bought.
I know that there are original white/red service boxes from '70 that may be different with mine: sorry, I haven't now at home (I use it on bank safe... perfect for this use).

My original box got 2 circolar cut to open it

Original box uses cardstock painted, not covered with thinner paper...


Misures of mine... I saw important difference with the fake


Hope it can help someone to recognize fake.
But I saw, in the past, some fake "swiss made" with a better layout talking about quality of cardstock... but printed with modern technology (with a 10x lens, you can see all small point on the red part...).

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