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I bought a Breitling, not knowing if it is real. It says it is 13048 100m chronographe stainless steel on the back, the front three small dials in them, one shows 10,20 and 31, the other shows 8,16 and 24, the last shows 2,5,7 and it says BREITLING CHRONO-MATIC. I know that is not a lot of info. The glass does have like a blue tint to it when looking at it when the light glares.

ok first things frist this thread is going to get moved to the appropriate section.

do you have any pics? and how much did you pay? where did you buy the watch from?

I bought it from a second hand store, I paid $150.00. I am not very good at explaining, don't have a digital camera. The watch has three adjustment buttons on the right and one adjustment button on the left. And where do I need to have my discussion.

I have a camera phone, but I wouldn't know how to get it on to this website.

it sounds fake to me. there is no chrono-matic that i know of that would cost 150 bucks. but post some pics so we can take a look.

It has to be fake. As Boogiebot points out, no legitimate Breitling is going to sell for $150. Moreover, the subdial numbers you listed are typical of fakes. They are not useful at all, and are put on there by people who clearly have no idea what subdials on a chronograph are even used for. Admittedly, some of the more advanced watches with perpetual calendars do have more complicated subdials (and some might actually have a subdial that goes to 31), but those watches would be even more expensive. Even without pics, I'd have to say fake.

If you're able to go back to the store where you got it, demand a refund. Also, just FYI, there is a replica identification subforum. This discussion will probably get moved there once one of the moderators see this.

With the sub dials you described it is 100% fake. It puports to be a chronograph, but isn't. The sub dials should be for a runnning seconds, and stop watch minutes and hours. Your fake has a 24 hour sub dial supposedly for keeping time in military hours, a day of the week in numbers - 1-7, and date 1-31.

It is a very common and quite poor fake pattern. We don't need pictures to verify given your description.

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The watch you describe is 100% fake:

1) The (B)13048 model number on the back is for a Chronomat model and is commonly used on cheap fakes and is wrong for a Chrono-matic model

2) The subdial markings indicate a perpetual calendar function that would be incorrect for a breiling chronograph model

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As stated, complete fake and you paid about $149 more than it is worth - sorry, but you couldn't have expected it to be real at that price.

And as the others have said, sorry but it's a cheap fake with a faux chronograph which indicates day/date/24h.

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