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Can someone help me verify if this is fake or not. Its a super avenger the one with the bigger logo, paperwork says from 09, but the date code on the watch doesnt make sense as the first four number are 4816.

Movement looks right, seeing the dial would help!

Could you post dial and caseback photos?

Looks real to me.

Me too, no idea why the date code is off.

well, B has a proud history of effing up their serial numbers to make dating watches interesting.

LOL - now that's funny!

also I did notice there is no little b on the side of bezel,which is usually arount the 12? is this an indication of anything foul or did some years not come with it? thanks

"b" should be there, maybe it's polished.
Does bezel pearl appear sunken or not?
It should be sunken.

Looks good to me. Fakes have gotten the look close but the feel us always a give away. How is the click of the bezel? Does the crown screw in smoothly and then cinch down like it is compressing a thick gasket? How is the lume?

If this was fake.... It would have been the best one I have ever seen.

I know nothing bout the numbers being off but like other have said its legit.

This could be a franken. IMO, a poor one.
If it was 2009,why has it got a Pro 1 bracelet? Retrofitted perhaps, but seems like someone wants to add provenance.
Could be fitted with genuine dial, the movement is an elaborate ETA decorated one but I think the rotor is wrong, it should also have the script in French along the lines of "chronographe certifie chronometre" ? Every B13 breitling I've ever had,had this scripted rotor.
http://www.breitlingsource.com/details/B13.html

Also, the matching serial number should be on the plate of the winding mechanism. I don't see it.
The case clamp screws do not look like Swiss quality, they are a bit chewed up.
There's no logical reason why the B is missing off the bezel.
The fake bezel screws are not actual screws, they just spin and spin. That's one way to check.

There's a similar thread here

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f260/alrig ... 54628.html

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Is that a crack on the movement spacer between the crown and bottom pusher?

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Might be franken.
Dial and date wheel look real to me (dial especially), rotor also (not saying it's a correct one, but fake rotor looks also like this... http://www.breitlingsource.com/details/B13.html ), bracelet is real.
Thing which is odd if it's franken is pushers length, on rep they are little longer.
They don't appear prolonged to me, but it's hard to notice, so might be wrong.