Fake watch busters

Quite a crop this morning.

http://www.adverts.ie/34622401

This fake Breitling is still live.

https://www.adverts.ie/casual/brietling-a14360/34592137

Not sure why it could have persisted when you look at the sub dial config.

The reference quoted: A14360 uses the Breitling Calibre 14 which has a 3-6-9 configuration of 60 running seconds, 12 hour totaliser and 30 minute counter, respectively.

The picture in the add shows 12 unit register at the 3 o'clock, and a 60 unit register at the other two positions.

It is clearly a fake but persists.

Most odd.

It's also missing a bezel.

It's not even an homage, it's an approximation.

While this is not a fake, it should be taken to task under the trades descriptions act…

https://www.adverts.ie/casual/watch/33649063

Even the most cursory of searches will reveal that once, for a brief period, the same person was CEO of the Sicura Watch company and part owner of the rights to Breitling, and that was as close as the two brands ever came.

Now that CEO turned out to Ernest Schneider who almost single-handedly revived Breitling but that was it. Sicura was wound down in favour of Breitling.

No cross over, no commonality, not shared parts.