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A few additional thoughts...

Let me post a few additional thoughts...

I'm more than willing to keep an open enough mind to entertain the possibility, no matter how infinitesimal it is, that one of the three producers of pd (Porsche Design) chronographs produced a chronograph that I haven't seen in my experience, research etc... It's a large universe and all things are possible... I mean I might intentionally put Premium fuel in a Rental Car, or Bill Clinton might have pure thoughts (that wouldn't embarrass his chaplin/daughter/grandmother, for more than 5 minutes straight. I wouldn't bank on it, but I'll keep that much of an open mind.

I honestly don't believe that anyone can seriously dispute the mismatch between the movement type on the data plate (5012) and the dial (which comes from a 5100). Lemania never shipped anything hybridized like that. I also don't think anyone can seriously state that dial came from the factory originally with those markers looking like that. I'm not talking about patina or coloring due to age, but nervious hand touched up markers at 5 and 10 minutes. This is not the work of a firm like Orfina, IWC or Eterna. It may not be a "re-dial" per say but that dial didn't leave the factory looking remotely like that. Even the Omega c.33xx quality assurance team does a better job than that...

I wouldn't say what I've said if I couldn't back it up. Frankly, this watch has little or no effect on my life, I'm not interested in it, nor will I ever be interested in purchasing it. I do not like people being sold a bill of goods though. For that is what this is.

I believe the seller is going to have an impossible task finding that watch in a verifiable ad, sales sheet, catalog or a manual to back up his 100% original claim. We'll see...

-- Chuck

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