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WatchFred
PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 3:06 am 
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not this is truly surprising, posted on WUS.

a Valjoux R72 Cosmonaute 809 (wouldn't that be a great find?)
case has some resemblance to the "big case", none of the markings are correct, hands are wrong.
the amount of work that went into this creation is astonishing.

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Fred, two questions:

1. Is there anything actually really Breitling about this? Or is completely manufactured/fake?
2. Is this a one-off do you think or are we going to see a flood of manufactured fakes coming soon?

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crown seems authentic ;)
David, it's the first time I see such an elaborate vintage Navi/Cossie fake - and no, we won't see too many of this one, R72 are not that easy to find.
very strange.
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maybe it was advertised as 'original prototyp, einzige in die welt' ? ;-)

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offered in Holland, Renè, not Belgium. for 2.3k, TheSage would charge 30k at least
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Very interesting piece!

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