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I have as a working hypothesis that after company closed and was liquidated (please don't refer to it as a bankruptcy), one of the buyers of the remaining store of parts, etc. (maybe Sinn, maybe Wais, maybe someone else) assembled the parts they had into as many finished watches as they could make fit and put them on the market. When new, they has a clear plastic sticker on the back with a red stripe on the side.

There would be nothing to prevent someone from using the remaining parts this way. I wonder if that's the source for so many Top Time dials in Co-Pilot cases. Some one made up quite of few of those, but no real Top Time came with a rotating bezel.

Unfortunately Bill, those kind of assumptions often give fakers all the incentive they need to put this stuff together and say the same thing. I still would shy away from anything not fully documented that that was the case.

Paul

Looks like the pusher caps have just slightly backed off. I can't imagine any legitimate scenario that would put a Top Time dial on a 2010 case from the factory.

What I meant is , the case back is immaculate , seems never to have seen a wrist
as its this new and immaculate and the watch has hardly been worn so there's absolutely no reason for the pushers to 'slightly back off' , which is a issue you see with hard worn chrono's that will slowly back back off over the cause of many years of wear

hence my conclusion : someone did not take the time to install these properly ie. someone worked on this watch and it wasnt Breitling and that might point to a questionable origin ?