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WatchFred
PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:38 am 
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gut feeling and experience say outright fake, BUT I have seen two more of these, one from the UK and one from Italy w/ a blue dial.

no ref. no, no (visible) serial no., "20 Atmos", quite poor case quality, everything about it seems wrong, but 3 of the same frankenjunk, or an undocumented late low cost effort ?

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I suspect that these are the product of the late 1970s - whether from someone outside of Breitling producing from parts or from a 'semi-official' arrangement in the days when money from any source was welcome.

I agree that there are too many consistencies across pieces to assume that they are completely wrong.
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I dont think these have seen the inside of a Breitling factory

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yeah, none of the parts look correct. well, maybe the crown and the subdial hands ?
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I have no problem believing that workshops produce as many copies of bogus pieces as they can. I think that happens more and more.
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