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Re: Another One Being Discussed on TZ-UK

Hi everybody, this is my first post on this superb forum but I guess it will be not a happy one.
I just bought the watch discussed some time ago in the forum tz.uk and below reported (the one with 905 on the back) unfortunately before having the possibility to read your comments...
Any chance that in the meantime some new evidence has appeared to prove it as a real Heuer???
Thanks for your replies (especially the positive ones....)

: Immediately below is a watch being discussed on TZ-UK --
: http://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?274104-About-this-vintage-Heuer

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:

: Here's the analysis of a similar watch (shown below) that Mark Moss
: posted here on Chronocentric, in November 2010 --
: http://www.chronocentric.com/forums/heuer/index.cgi?page=46;md=read;id=39407
: .

:

: These appear to be two different samples; notice the different
: second hands and the stain on the running seconds register of
: the TZ-UK sample.

: This seems to be another suspicious watch that just won't go away.
: Both the case-backs are marked "905"; both movements
: are unmarked . . . Based on Mark's in-depth analysis, seems
: unlikely that this one is authentic . . . but I'm not so sure.
: Perhaps this gray guy is authentic. Further research required.

: Regarding this watch, it's another one about which we might say,
: "genuine or not, it certainly is ugly".

: Jeff

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