Buying a Speedy reduced 3510.50.00, but is it fake?

[SilasA]

Hello


So Im looking at getting a Speedy reduced 3510.50 but a quick check online shows that there are “replicas” of this reference.

When I check the pictures on chrono24 it seems when they are opened they all look a bit different? Some with text and some without?

Are there any indication to show which ones are legit? The pictures here are from the one I'm looking to buy.

Thanks

 

[padders]

Looks perfectly genuine. Can you show examples of fakes since I have never seen a convincing fake of one of these. They use a compound movement which is difficult to fake in many ways so as long as the pushers and crown are out of line any you see that looks right is prob legit. The casebacks varied over the years from very plain with text only to ornate like you show above. Some early ones have the serial only inked onto the inner caseback which can wear off during cleaning so have no serial at all in effect. Some have it on the lug and others on the outer caseback. There were also 4 different movement numbers I recall and different movement finishes used over the life of the model which ran from around 1988 to 2006 or so. It's complicated!

Edited: Mar 22, 2024

 

[SilasA]

Thank you for your response! I don't know what the fakes ones looks like, I can only read that they excist?
But what got me confused is when I look at a different one on Ch24 it can look like this? (Which says it comes with omega authentication)

 

[padders]

See what I said about the 4 movements used above, you show 2 of the variants there, the first, the 1140 and the last the 3220. They made this model for nearly 20 years don't forget, there were changes.

 

[SilasA]

Ahh, did not see that sorry, but that of course makes sense. Thank you so much for your response!