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Is this watch real or fake thread - aka Fake Busters!!

  1. edddy Apr 1, 2020

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    Hi guys, this watch it's not for sale, but handed to me by my inlaw (he is not into watches). It's a fake?

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  2. timecube Apr 1, 2020

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    Very fake.
    (very common variant on a very fake, fake)

    see:
     
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  3. Reptile Apr 3, 2020

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    Hi all I am a newby first poster. Found this online. Grateful for opinions / guidance on authenticity and reparability of dial and rough value View attachment 959994
     
  4. Reptile Apr 3, 2020

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    another picture - sorry struggling with image upload
     
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  5. barryzelf Apr 3, 2020

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    It’s a reference 168.050. There are 2 on chrono for about 1600 to 1900 EUR. But these have better dials. Do you have more pics, preferably also from the movement?
    PS. please post the pics in a way we can see them directly in the thread. So without a link.
     
  6. Reptile Apr 3, 2020

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    Hi all I am a newby first poster. Found this online. Grateful for opinions / guidance on authenticity, reparability of dial and rough value
    View attachment 960006
     
  7. Reptile Apr 3, 2020

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    Rest of the photos - thanks for your collective patience upload_2020-4-3_16-31-5.png
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  8. JanV Apr 11, 2020

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    Now we’re on the we’re thin borderline here, a x460 serial numbered Zenith El Primero A386 that’s been quite in depth discussed and identified as a series of forged / faked units.

    Service parts like dial, hands, crown, inner bezel, sub dial hands etc... and a case and caseback not correct / faked for any A386 iterations.

    IMHO this should be reported in order to protect some sorry guys money who would eventually end up buying this one.

    EDIT: REPORTED now as the same watch seems to have been reappearing on Ebay several time on in the last months.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/153892755538Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network
     
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  9. nremmy Apr 12, 2020

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  10. alanadhi Apr 13, 2020

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    Hi guys, im still new in this forum but i want to ask if these watch is real or fake and its reference number is 166.026 and i searched at google there's a similar one but with blue dial . Is it real or fake ? Anything will help
     
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  11. timecube Apr 13, 2020

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    Your phone is real....low. You should charge it.
     
  12. alanadhi Apr 13, 2020

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    Thanks for the consideration ahha i forgot to charge . But hows the watch
     
  13. JimInOz Melbourne Australia Apr 13, 2020

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    The watch is real. Possibly a sparkly dial Cosmic.
     
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  14. alanadhi Apr 13, 2020

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    Is it my thread that you reply ?
     
  15. timecube Apr 13, 2020

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    Yours is the only sparkly dial Cosmic that's been posted lately, and Jim knows sparkly dial Cosmics.
    So: odds are it's the real deal.
     
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  16. alanadhi Apr 14, 2020

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    Thank you very much ! for the confirmation
     
  17. Smokes Apr 15, 2020

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    Hi do you think this is real?
     
  18. Smokes Apr 15, 2020

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  19. Smokes Apr 15, 2020

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    Someone has it for sale and wanted a opinion before I make a decision
     
  20. f18sailor Apr 15, 2020

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