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Re: Little tutorial to distinguish

Giuliano, really it seems there is one on sale everyday!
And often the pictures are intentionally very small to confuse the buyers.

Here some close up i made to a good and to a fake one.
Note that the genuine in not plated and is in two parts as the Heuer logo is a separate welded piece, and all the parts are printed.
Anyway it's easy to see that the repro come from casting.

First the genuine:

And then the repro: really a different beast...just notice the micro holes resulting from the metal casting.

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