my guess is that this private auction was as real as the watch, meaning not one bit real.

f.y.i., I wrote to the seller, and advised him that it was fake. he replied that he was selling the same way that he had received it . . . strange, in that it had been sold in a private ebay auction just a few weeks ago. surely he did not pay $600 for this piece of junk (a couple of weeks ago), then flip it for twice that amount? or did he?

with these back-to-back private auctions, we cannot really know what we are seeing.

Jeff