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jamesbizs
路Could be different in the USA but here in the UK they will authenticate for free.
Is my TAG Heuer Authentic? All questions here please
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jamesbizs
路The pins and tubes out of any spare bracelets links with the watch.
If you need to remove a link to check there's an arrow on the inside of the bracelet (or should be) to show you which direction to push the pin out.
But back to the real point. Pin and tubes can be removed in either direction. Cheap pins can as well, but have the indent in the center. Real ones have two indents on the tube, and one on the pin. The pin indent is offset, so that it can line up with either tube indent, so that you can insert the pin in either end, and in either configuration.
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jamesbizs
路Hope this works. There is a ding on the 12 marker as you can see, the ring around the pip looks like it might be polishing compound. I took a soft bristle toothbrush to it and it looks better but not perfect.
I can also offer you an authentification service and watch service, if you want to know if the rotor is ok or not. The watch also is either fairly new, or someone did a good job at refurbishing the surfaces. Normally I'd say I can clean up a watch a little, but yours looks perfect, besides the defect on the bezel pip.
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Gilly11277
路My gut says its gen. I will likely still send it back to Tag for professional polishing since the jeweler didn't do as good a job IMO. I will probably know for sure after sending it in because after they take everything out of the case to polish, if its not real they will just put it back together and ship it back.
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Aquagraph
路It's not that they authenticate for free. It's that, they will refuse to do any work on your watch, and then send it back, with the reason being " not authentic". But you have to send it in for service of some kind. And that's why it costs $400. They don't want $400 to authenticate. The OP just misspoke.
That guy sent his 'orange' 1000 Series in for 'authentication', he never said he sent it back for service. In fact he posted the letter he got back from them which said it was authentic (and we couldn't believe it).
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Turpinr
路If the bracelet has arrows on the inside, that would mean it's not a real one 馃槈. Arrows are only for the cheap cotter pins, because they can only go in one way. And by "can", I mean, unless you're an idiot, and shove it in the other way, and then force it in, and then make my life extremely hard..... LOL sorry, a bit jaded on that.
But back to the real point. Pin and tubes can be removed in either direction. Cheap pins can as well, but have the indent in the center. Real ones have two indents on the tube, and one on the pin. The pin indent is offset, so that it can line up with either tube indent, so that you can insert the pin in either end, and in either configuration.
My Aquaracer has no direction arrows on the inside of the bracelet but the 2000 and F1 with the older style clasp hasp.
I just had a look at the rest of my watches and a Seamaster 2531.80 and Longines Conquest VHP have them but the rest don't.
All the pins and tubes have the grooves on them.馃槜
I was sure more of my watches had direction arrows on the inside of the bracelets
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Turpinr
路Mine didn't come with any spare links. Do you have a picture showing what this looks like? I took the watch off and inspected the bracelet closely, I don't see any arrows. Might have to remove a link and check the mating surfaces on the parts that are covered.
After @jamesbizs post re the direction arrows I've inspected my Aquaracer and it doesn't have any but 2 older Tags do.
If you push the pins out be careful not to lose the tubes.
If it's pukka it'll have the grooves that @jamesbizs speaks of.
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akong71
路Hecky la Pecky James you're bang on 馃憤
My Aquaracer has no direction arrows on the inside of the bracelet but the 2000 and F1 with the older style clasp hasp.
I just had a look at the rest of my watches and a Seamaster 2531.80 and Longines Conquest VHP have them but the rest don't.
All the pins and tubes have the grooves on them.馃槜
I was sure more of my watches had direction arrows on the inside of the bracelets
Sounds like you and I have a similar collection! I too have the same Omega SMP and a Colt, plus a TAG 2000 and F1. I think my 2000 bracelet does have arrows, but cannot recall if my F1 does. It鈥檚 a newer(ish) 2015 model.
My collection is small, so I guess is not difficult for someone to have the same watches. Lol.
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Turpinr
路Sounds like you and I have a similar collection! I too have the same Omega SMP and a Colt, plus a TAG 2000 and F1. I think my 2000 bracelet does have arrows, but cannot recall if my F1 does. It鈥檚 a newer(ish) 2015 model.
My collection is small, so I guess is not difficult for someone to have the same watches. Lol.
My missus took the 2000 off my hands and she wears it more than I did.
Which model of Seamaster have you got?
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JAH
路What is the pin and tube? This is everything I got.
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路Hi, what do you think about this one? Thank you.
Hard to tell without a better picture front on, all the details are right, but the colour of the bezel looks wrong. Maybe just lighting.
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路Can they fake those textile straps? I mean, TAG charge 拢230 for them so there must be something pretty special and difficult to manufacture there... 馃槜
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jamesbizs
路Hecky la Pecky James you're bang on 馃憤
My Aquaracer has no direction arrows on the inside of the bracelet but the 2000 and F1 with the older style clasp hasp.
I just had a look at the rest of my watches and a Seamaster 2531.80 and Longines Conquest VHP have them but the rest don't.
All the pins and tubes have the grooves on them.馃槜
I was sure more of my watches had direction arrows on the inside of the bracelets
Let me add some more detail. The older watches all had the arrows. Pretty much up until 2000's stopped being a thick. Going into The exclusive, that was pin and tube.
Omega's had pin and tubes for much longer than tag heuer. You have to go pretty far back to find the cotter pins. And I'm not even sure how far back. Could be 40 years. Any omega pretty much 1980's and up, has pin and tube. I know nothing about longines. Most lower prices watches also have that. For price, and also to allow an owner to change the bracelet size. Sieko's have a weird thing tho if I remember, where it's a cotter pin, but also has a tube of some sort?
What sucks about all that, is that no one sells an affordable link remover tool that is capable of removing higher end pin and tubes. There are some, but they are priced very high, and personally, I'm not a fan. You really have to know what you're doing. I've always had to make my own tools, which involved making properly sizes pins, and then using a hammer. Not always the best in the end either. And then you have S/eL's. Don't get me started on those.
Now, as far as F1's. Even the newer F1's have the arrow, because they are considered the lowest tier. That allows them to keep the pricing lower. Now, that doesn't count, only with the CERAMIC Formula watches. I'm guessing that the ceramic needs a tube to not break or something. But yeah, all ceramics need a pin and tube. If you want to figure out if it's fake tho, all you need to do is look on the underside of the bracelets. Real ones are polished top and bottom. Fake ones are brushed underneath.
Does anyone know if Tag makes any pin and screw bracelets these days? There was one model long ago that did that. How about now tho? Besides the LINK of course. That doesn't count.
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