Let's
start with the Red...
The watch states 100m/330ft... It should be
300m/1000ft. This alone is to get me to pass. But
the rest of the text is different too. It is "©
Omega Seamaster Chronograph Water Resistant" it should be
"© Omega Seamaster Professional Chronometer".
Next
the Lavender...
Note this is a 1/10th of a second subdial! The Seamaster
is a MECHANICAL watch, it wouldn't/COULDN'T have a
1/10th
of a second dial unless it possessed a Zenith El-Primero
movement. You ever hear of an Omega sporting a Zenith
movement coming out of Bienne? Me neither. This means
that the watch has either a Quartz movement (something a
Seamaster Professional Chronograph would never possess)
or it's non-functional in some sense. Folks, this
is the FIRST thing I look for when looking at a
watch... if it has a
1/10th
sub-dial, it is NOT a mechanical watch. Note:
Zenith to my knowledge has never produced a version
of the El-Primero movement with a
1/10th
of a second sub-dial.
Next,
the baby
Blue...
The markers... We have reasonably correct rectangular
markers at 12, 9 and 6, and round ones at 10, 2 and 6,
where are the round markers for 1, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 11? And
where is the rectangular marker for 3 o'clock? And where
are the tiny 5 minute/second markers on the second track
around the edge o the dial? They are missing all
together! What a joke!
Next
that minute hand in Green.
Proper shape, but it's missing the luminious along the
outside edges of the skeleton part and also missing the
luminous triangle in the end. Oh! wait a second!!! I see
it! I've circled it in Orange!
Either it's bouncing around the inside of the watch
between the dial and crystal, or it's glued itself to the
second/minute track at 6.5 seconds/minutes! Gads!
Last
up on the dial is the Dark
Blue:
Subdials... They aren't in the same position as the real
thing. Suspicious? You bet! We have one subdial that
shouldn't be on the watch, another two that are in the
wrong place. How is one supposed to track minutes? We
have a small seconds (@ 12) and an hour (@ 9) where is
the minute register? How useful is a chronograph with a
minute register? Not very bloody useful...
Ok,
which brings me to the last item in this picture... In
the Brown...
The braclet seems to be made of solid, one piece links,
instead of the elaborate 9 piece links common with the
SeMPC.
Now,
the bezel markings are wrong, the hole for the (missing)
luminious dot at the top of the bezel is far too large,
the dial is wrong for this bezel, the crown is wrong
(both in shape of the crystal, and the shape of the Omega
Symbol on the crown. The clasp isn't a push-button clasp,
it's a snap clasp, the clasp has raised instead of
embossed writing on it, oh, the Seamaster waves are not
consistant with a genuine back (and the dial is missing
the Seamaster waves too)! Oh! and there is NO
H.E.V.!!!
These
are just the most obvious things wrong with this fake
Seamaster. Grade yourselves... How did you do? Did you
spot as many questionable things as I did? Of course, if
you only spotted one or two and those were enough to make
you move on, that's enough. But the more you find the
more likely you'll be able to spot a fake!
I
hope you found the post/tread/this
interesting/fun/educational.
Good
Hunting and know your quarry!
Chuck
