Quote Originally Posted by walkerwek1958 View Post
A pity the video doesn’t give more detail about the movement, it looks like the fake has a free- sprung balance and that makes it much more difficult to spot. I’m assuming the escapement isn’t co- axial, but that’s difficult to see. Might watch it again and play ‘spot the difference’.

Fakes of this quality are going to fool a lot of people.
The free sprung balance thing always makes me laugh on TRF. First thing anyone says, “check mvt, if it’s not got a free spring balance it’s fake. Nobody fakes a free spring balance”. I always say it’s very dangerous to assume that.