Vintage Breitling Fake

[carlosalmeida]

Hello Everyone,

Is this piece authentic? Seller claims it is original.

Thank you for your input.

[Kernow]

Any pictures?

[carlosalmeida]

[carlosalmeida]

[carlosalmeida]

Breitling Cadette lemania 50's?

[MILGAUSS88]

Dial looks good.
Should get photos of the movement and the inside back of the case for numbers.
Breitling and Wakkman were in business together at this time and I think they handed back and forth movements fairly frequently.
It may have a Wakkman signed movement instead of Breitling. Which I would still think would be original but try telling that to someone else when you go to resell it.

The inside of the case should be signed and possibly have a reference number.

[WatchFred]

ehm....
no, parts were not handed back and forth between Breitling and Wakmann, Wakmann was the US distributor for Breitling and also had a line of Wakmann-branded watches that were manufactured by several other suppliers, primarily Gigandet in Switzerland and Yema France.

There were three entry-level models in the 1970s that were manufactured by Breitling and marketed both as Breitling and Wakmann and one Premier in the mid-1960s that was co-branded, but that sums up the "back and forth", movements for US-imports had to be marked by the company importing the watches, not the manufacturer (WOG import codes on Breitling imported by Wakmann)


to the OP: highest probability this watch is 100% fake, but a picture of the inner caseback would easily confirm this, all Breitling-manufactured chronographs had 6- or 7-digit serial numbers I could verify for you w/ the production ledgers, watches manufactured after ca. 1940 also had 3- or 4-digit model references on the case.