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This is not a real Breitling, right?
I don't like the dial, it doesn't look like from the 50s at all, the way the number "6" is drawed is it right?
I don't think the hands are original too, from what I've seen in the forum, it should be thinner and not luminous.
I still can't argue about the case, crown, movement, the way the simbol was painted or serials, can anyone walk me through this things?

Thanks a lot

It is indeed 'unreal'

It would be a brave man who bought a Breitling from China, but that aside let's go through it.

The hands are slightly reminiscent of some Breitling hands from the 1950s - the Navitimers spring to mind. I say slightly though because I'm stretching it somewhat. If you look at the dial as a whole it doesn't look particularly refined - look at the B / Breitling / Geneve in particular at the top - there isn't a clean transition from the black to the white as there would be on a real one. Also compare the B logo with the real thing, they aren't the same.

The serial number of 10033 is too short to be a Breitling serial number (at least for a watch of this era) and there is no model number which there would be. The crown is also far too thick for this claimed era.

I'm not sure what the movement is - it's clearly marked as a 2321 and I know of two 2321 movements and this isn't either. I can't quite see the makers mark (to the left of the movement number) which would help - it looks like an S on top of something else which I don't recognise at all. The two I know of are by ETA and ISA, the first is automatic, the second is quartz.

Steer clear of this one.

Draw a line between 8 & 10 and then a second line between 4 & 2. You will see in all photos they lines don't extend through the lugs evenly. The face is clearly crooked. Also, this watch is ugly the print looks like it came out of a desktop ink jet printer. Definitely not a Breitling.