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Clebar or Heuer 12 Dato?

I'd like to ask your experts opinion: there is a Clebar signed "poor man's Carrera 12 Dato" visible on OnTheDash, see link:

http://www.onthedash.com/Guide/_Chronographs/63.Carrera/c.Carrera_12_Dato/f.Poor_Man's_Dato_12/Clebar_Dato_(White-on-White)/

Now I have seen the very-very same case and dial (lugs, everything is the same) with "Heuer" on the dial instead of "Clebar".
Question: Is it possible that Heuer sold the same watch case with Heuer signed dial too, or only Clebar? In the latter case a dial refreshing and renaming could be the case. I was offered this watch for sale, but as at the upper text of the next linked page:

http://www.onthedash.com/Guide/_Chronographs/63.Carrera/c.Carrera_12_Dato/

can be read, the thicker-lugged variation is only "Clebar"-signed. May I trust in the originality of that "Heuer"-signed dial?

Thx for every kind input - English and German inputs are welcome!

Regards: Robertus

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