here are the questions I have asked seller:

"can you please tell me which chronograph you are actually offering here? looking at your photographs, I see three or four different chronographs (different hands; different straps).

also, some of the photographs are from your previous ebay auctions. which one are you actually selling -- the one with the hands from the Heuer reference 741603 (close-up photo), the one with the smaller (breitling) hands or some other watch??"

I will let you know what I learn.

I did not ask for proof of authenticity, as such. This one appears to have been made up from the cases and dials previously offered by a seller in australia. this australian seller, with over 3,000 previous ebay transactions, is no longer a registered ebay user.

. . . strange stuff.

Jeff

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: if the seller bought it 15 years ago how did he
: know it was real then? does he have a manual
: or papers? that would be proof to me that it
: was real, or even a catalog showing it?
: without this kind of info i lean towards, a
: fake. what proof does the seller have other
: than he says it's real? i'd love to see some
: concrete proof from the seller.

: j.h.