How to Identify a Fake Breitling Watch

* Most likely, the movement is quartz, since faking a chronograph movement is expensive. Thus the seconds' totalizer will have a hand that "jumps" instead of smoothly sweeping across its arc.


* Many fakes do not have the Valjoux 7750 configuration to the totalizers.

* The correct totalizer configuration is:

--The 6 o'clock is the hour totalizer (marked 12/2/4/8/8/10 in newer Chronomat's or 12/3/6/9 in older Chronomat's)

--The 9 o'clock is the sweep seconds totalizer (marked 60/10/20/30/40/50 in newer Chronomat's or 60/20/40 in older Chronomat's)

--The 12 o'clock totalizer is the minutes totalizer (marked 30/5/10/15/20/25 in newer Chronomat's or 30/10/20 in older Chronomat's)

* Breitling has very crisp lines to the minute marks on the bezel. If you look at a real Breitling, these lines are very sharp recesses that are clearly defined. In many fakes, the lines are stamped and show deformation in the surrounding metal.

 * On some fakes, the bezel is marked as though it were a Chronomat Longitude (i.e., 12/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11), but the watch has no spare hour hand.