eBay PowerSeller - neofasion's listing possible RE-Case 1675..NOT FACTORY Original...

[Orchi]

Err buddies...when Orchi 1st seen this listing by eBay PowerSeller - neofashion...
Orchi has some suspicion...
n was skeptical about the Case of the 1675 watch that is...
being listed as "ALL FACTORY ORIGINAL" NOS watch...with "BOX & PAPERS"...

ONE more day...before the listing is ended.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=300291177599

Here are the pictures...showing the Case to be in Brand New
conditions...









Upon close inspection of the Case # n Serial Nos...stamping...
Orchi finds the discrepancies of the alphanumeric fonts...which are
inconsistently too MODERN...NOT to be normally found on watches of that
age...around 1972.

Also found on the questionable 1675 listing...
is the US made clasps on the watch...
which can be seen as NOT being in NOS conditions...which
is contrary to the Seller's claim in the listing...









Here are the comparisons of the BIGGER n OLDER alphanumeric fonts...commonly found on watches of that age...
hence...Orchi is of opinions that the 1675 GMT Master watch...may have been RE-CASED...n
the Case Ref # n Serial Nos....RE-Stamped by RSC at its later age...at best.





Also...in this picture from the listing...one would see that
the centre links of the so called "ALL FACTORY ORIGINAL" 1675
in NOS conditioned watch's riveted bracelet...is questionable...
having the WRONG arrangement...being the split longer side of the
centre links...nearest to the watch case...
It should be the the shorter side nearest to the watch case...

This riveted bracelet links looks to be...of a later replacement bracelet...
NOT original for the watch...



Furthermore...Orchi has since brought up the same topic in the VRF forum...
Here are the responses...so far.