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3 hand transocean , with certificate of autheticity ?

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Breitling-Transo ... 3a8890b1e2

I dont recall this model ?

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not documented in Richter for whatever that's worth - and we have no known catalogs for mid/late 1960s 3-hands;
dial and caseback seem in line w/ period production standards, though I also do not recall seeing this one.

Nothing obviously wrong with it, and I rather want it to be right - it is rather nice.

Based upon the style of the hands and engraving on the back one would expect the watch to date from around mid 1960's to early 1970's. There are enough catalogs around from that period to show this watch if genuine. I can't make out what the Breitling letter says but expect it's just another letter from someone that doesn't really know for sure. The only watches even remotely similar would be the late 1960's dive watches, 3865/3962, which also had odd reference numbers and no serial numbers, but, they are in the catalog.

Paul, which late 1960s & 1970s 3-hand catalog are you referring to ?
we have chronograph catalogs that include the divers and some flyers, but dress and 3-hands ?

The 1969 catalog shows the dive watches under the Superocean heading. They are three hand also. Seems reasonable if there was a three hand Transocean it would also have been in the catalog somewhere. The 1970's brochure shows the Transocean series so you would assume that all of the Transocean series would be there including the one in question if genuine.

This one poses some troubling issues.

1. Reference 5201 is for a ladies watch. I guess we don't spend much time on Richter page 84.
2. Whoever did the "Echtheit"-ing on this one had the reference number as 520 and the serial number as 5201. If that's a real current Breitling effort, then pity the unaware.
3. That caseback is not plausible with "Geneve" on it, too.
4. But if that dial is nicht echtheit, and it would seem so, then shiver me timbers, the pirates are loose. That's one fine production!