What are the characteristics that make this a fake?
You might take the view that anyone daft enough to spend £6999 on this deserves what they get but I thought I'd report it to eBay.
I've also send him a polite message giving the seller the bad news that he is holding a fake.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOXED-Offi...-/322358950998
What are the characteristics that make this a fake?
Scarcely any seller feedback, priced much lower than Chrono24 examples, no papers, BT and F2f collection only option
See his feedback, all very low value items, seems to have bought about 10 BMW bonnet badge stickers and has bought items that only exist to bump up feedback like this;
Screw Bolt 1P PENNY FREE NO RESERVE AUCTION COLLECTION ONLY 1p Penny (#322117861651)
Hes a bad 'un.
I'm not sure I understand why people would look to spend £7k on a watch seen on eBay. If you're spending that type of money then surely you'd want to do it safe in the knowledge it's at least legit or you have some cover should things go sour.
Nice shout on the certificate. Another note about fakes then, why if you're hoping to lure someone into spending £7k on a watch wouldn't you do your research and get all bases covered.
Has this been reports/seller messaged?
I've reported it to eBay and sent him the following...
Sorry to have to break this to you but this is not a genuine Panerai.
If you check the movement through the case back vs. those on the Panerai website you can see that is it not the same. It has different parts and a different orientation in the case.
Rather than getting into legal difficulty by selling it on here you should take the matter up with whoever sold it to you.
You buy it then and let us know how you get on
If this a fake,it is a good spot.I would never buy from someone with such low feedback but the listing itself wouldn't have alarmed me. Pictures of the case back are poor,may be intentionally so.
I didn't realise fakers were copying the in-house Panerai range. Just compared the movement pics to the p.9000 in my PAM351 and there are plenty of little differencs, but there are also quite a few similarities, including some of the screw placement, as well as the obvious printing on plate and rotor which looks pretty good. MCH is absolutely right about the orientation of the movement, but I can easily see someone who's not fanatical about watches being duped.
Last edited by trisdg; 18th December 2016 at 16:33.
Probably sold it to a fake account of his or a mate of his... keep the reputation up he knew well it was a fake
From a distance it looked very good - the fakes are getting better all the time...
the balance wheel was way too small compared the the real P9000
plus up close and in person you would have had a feel that it was fake if you've handled real ones at he AD
so a good reason to go and play with them new even if you have no intention to buy from the AD - if you're planning on getting a used one eventually