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 Posted: Sun Mar 20th, 2011 05:37 pm
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joecb



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 I was winding some on my watches today, and I saw this weird image, more like a shadow on the dial on a marina militare watch I own. It's a white enamal sterile dial with blue black arabic numerals, Breguet style blued hands and an Asain 6498 movement, with 2nd hand dial at the 6 o'clock position.

anyway, I put a magnifying glass to it and it took me a bit to figure out what I was seeing..

Under the 12 o'clock position, was a shadow under the white enamal with horizontal scratches through it, but still a bit raised enough  but well painted over with the white enamal I find this:

 

"IWC Schauffhasen"   And under that in script is what looks like a signature which I can't make out.

Sounds to me like someone was doing a bit of counterfitting, and maybe was getting rid of some dials they couldn't use.

picture of watch attached from web site of seller 

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Last edited on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 05:39 pm by joecb