Fake Omega Apollo Soyuz

[bazderome]

This fake 1975 Omega Apollo Soyuz juts popped up on a Omega Facebook group.

Few tells on the dial, like the wrong spacing of the T SWISS T, the missing concentric circles in the sub-dials, the lines of the AS logo are thicker than the original, wrong font for Omega and more. You can see pretty fast it's a fake but it's not usual to see those on the Omega market... Posting for posterity


The rest of the watch is a standard 861, wrong case-back, wrong mid-case, wrong pushers

Edited: Feb 14, 2021

 

[machamp6650]

This popped up on my FB thread as well. Interesting example, dial definitely differs from the original - I wonder how they made the dial though? Refinish of the standard speedmaster dial, maybe one from the 80s or 90s? Seems like a bit of a gamble just to get that apollo soyuz logo on there?

 

[airansun]

For the record:

OP Watch
MWO photo

The bezel is wrong too.

Easiest dial tell is where the ‘t’s line up at the bottom of the dial.

 

[Vercingetorix]

Are you sure that’s not the Italian version?

 

[bazderome]

airansun

For the record:

OP Watch
MWO photo

The bezel is wrong too.

Easiest dial tell is where the ‘t’s line up at the bottom of the dial.

Even easier than the T, that is indeed not correct, you have on the real dial: Swiss / the space of the the marker / Made. On the fake one the two words are too close.

The OP deleted the thread about it on FB so unfortunately I can't ask more informations or pictures.

 

[Foo2rama]

I ripped it apart on the FB thread.

so the consensus is the dial was fake as well?