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As with several others that I've found recently, this one is a franken-fake: a mixture of real and fake parts. On this one the bezel and case are fake whilst the dial and hands are genuine. Once again, the seller helps us out with good photos and my suspicion that the fake bezel has no lume is confirmed.
ePrey #280249221983, only two days to go and NINE bidders.
Bezel problems:
1. Numbers are too close together.
2. Long flag on the "1", thin triangle (correct on the early Type 1 bezels which have different "1"s and "3"s).
3. NO LUME! I've long suspected this was the case, but a seller has never posted a lume shot before.
4. "Lands" on the sides of the bezel aren't parallel and the "grooves" have the typical cast metal appearance.
Case problems:
1. All edges are sharp, none are bevelled.
2. Grooved area on back looks raised instead of being part of the case. Area between ridges has cast appearance.
3. C-front. All fake cases are C-fronts, not all C-fronts are fake however.
Caveat emptor.