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 Post subject: Real Breitling?
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:29 am 
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Hello,

By any chance, would anyone have thoughts about this watch? It looks great, but for all I know it's a fake or franken...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/170689982233?ss ... 1491wt_898

Thanks so much!
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 Post subject: Re: Real Breitling?
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:24 pm 
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Dial has been redone but the biggest issue is the movement. Bridge stamping is wrong - should either be absent (probable for this age) or script Breitling and Premier. On a gold 769 the movement should also be decorated with cote de Geneve (Geneva stripes). It's definitely a mostly Breitling excluding the movement, but pretty sure that movement never started life in that watch.


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Thanks -- again! You really know your stuff. If you don't mind my asking, how exactly is it that you know so much?


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Just a lot of time spent looking at old Breitlings.


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It was time well spent. You're a pro.


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