Universal Geneve buckle 16mm stainless steel

gatorcpa

“Plaque G” on a purported steel buckle is never a good sign.
gatorcpa

Diabolik

Well, I cleaned it up a little and looking at it closely, I does say "Plaque G" and has an "AW" in a rectangle as well as "DEPOSE SWISS" . However, it is not yellow gold, it is probably white gold.

Diabolik

I disagree ... Here are some genuine buckles. As you can see the stamped "acier inox", "depose" and "swiss" lines up and is identical. I have not seen any fake buckle with the such fine and clean print. Usually they have none and if the do, it is never crisp and clean.

bgrisso

I was doing some research on gold plating techniques, it was saying that brass was often plated with nickel before being plated with gold, I wonder if we could be looking at nickel?

Diabolik

A nice fake buckle from japan currently on the Bay ...

Japanese fake buckle

Tohz

I’ve come across these quite frequently on different watches from Japan, which makes me think they may have been locally sourced and added by the importer back in the 60s/70s.