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Re: Seems to be a Fake
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This looks odd.
So far we have been lucky for not seeing many fakes of IDF watches, maybe due to the limited awarness and numbers.
Very interesteing watches if original..
How many are out there ? Come on guys show your IDF beauties ;-))
Cheers
Arno

www.heuerchronographs.com
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: while we do see a fair amount of variation in the IDF Autavias (for
: example, time-of-day or chrono seconds hands painted white to
: improve legibility), this one seems to have too many variations.
: At a quick glance: wrong time-of-day hands wrong words at the
: bottom of the dial wrong style / font on the engraving on the
: case-back
: we do see some variations; I'm afraid that here we are seeing a
: fake.

: Jeff

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