Is my TAG Heuer Authentic? All questions here please

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Good outcome I guess, although he is obviously using this same watch to extract money from people. Shame Chrono24 can't do more to stop this seller.

And yes, seller reviews and doing your homework are just as important on Chrono24 as they are on eBay.
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I sure will. I've gone for the black one instead of the blue. I'm like a kid at Christmas waiting for it to arrive
I know the kid at xmas feeling very well.I picked a BB58 up at xmas as a retirement prezzie to myself and it felt like was a kid again getting the luminous Timex that I got xmas 1968
 
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Hey everyone! Just bought a Carrera Cal 36 Flyback Racing on ebay. Has the warranty card (matches the watch) and is registered as valid on the Tag website. I know nothing about Tag watches and from reading this thread EBAY & BULGARIA are red flags when it comes to Tag watches. Anyone see any reason to worry? Best I can tell from reading the forums is that it is possible to engrave a real serial number on a fake watch. It arrives this afternoon and I am now a bit nervous as this wasn't cheap. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
 
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Hey everyone! Just bought a Carrera Cal 36 Flyback Racing on ebay. Has the warranty card (matches the watch) and is registered as valid on the Tag website. I know nothing about Tag watches and from reading this thread EBAY & BULGARIA are red flags when it comes to Tag watches. Anyone see any reason to worry? Best I can tell from reading the forums is that it is possible to engrave a real serial number on a fake watch. It arrives this afternoon and I am now a bit nervous as this wasn't cheap. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Hi!
The problem with that bulgarian seller (with different accounts) was not the watch itself (he used pictures from a genuine watch) but the seller didn’t send the watch: he just takes the money by bank transfer, and never sends any watch. So he is simply a thief

But if you payed by paypal, it was a seller with many positive votes (as a seller, not as a buyer of cheap things), and you know that you are receiving the watch this afternoon, then it’s a very different case. Not every ebay seller from Bulgaria is going to be a thief!

Looking at your pictures, the watch looks genuine. Please post pictures when you receive it! 👍
 
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Hey everyone! Just bought a Carrera Cal 36 Flyback Racing on ebay. Has the warranty card (matches the watch) and is registered as valid on the Tag website. I know nothing about Tag watches and from reading this thread EBAY & BULGARIA are red flags when it comes to Tag watches. Anyone see any reason to worry? Best I can tell from reading the forums is that it is possible to engrave a real serial number on a fake watch. It arrives this afternoon and I am now a bit nervous as this wasn't cheap. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

I hope all goes well.
Always a bit of a nerve racking time waiting for any watch to arrive from overseas.
A very nice watch indeed, and welcome to the forum.
 
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I hope all goes well.
Always a bit of a nerve racking time waiting for any watch to arrive from overseas.
A very nice watch indeed, and welcome to the forum.
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Hi!
The problem with that bulgarian seller (with different accounts) was not the watch itself (he used pictures from a genuine watch) but the seller didn’t send the watch: he just takes the money by bank transfer, and never sends any watch. So he is simply a thief

But if you payed by paypal, it was a seller with many positive votes (as a seller, not as a buyer of cheap things), and you know that you are receiving the watch this afternoon, then it’s a very different case. Not every ebay seller from Bulgaria is going to be a thief!

Looking at your pictures, the watch looks genuine. Please post pictures when you receive it! 👍

Got the watch, everything looks good to my eyes. Here are a few pics!
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Got the watch, everything looks good to my eyes. Here are a few pics!
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Yes, everythink looks good! Congratulations! 😀 👍
 
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The auction starts at 1600€ 😁 😁 😁 😁 😁

And you can also read “West McLaren Mercedes 2014” on the dial, when West sponsorship to McLaren ended many years before 2014! A very accurate replica! 😁 😁

This is the ebay link:
https://www.ebay.es/itm/143573752891
 
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Hello, got this watch and I am bit unsure whether it is authentic or not. There are scratches on the edges of the sapphire, see pic 3 and I do not see any numbering on the back, should be a limited edition of 4000. Thanks for any comments.
 
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The numbering is definitely missing and the small links should be polished. However, it could be that the numbering has worn away and the bracelet has been polished and they just brushed the whole thing. The state of the crystal suggests the watch has been well used, so this could be the case. Can you tell if those small inbetween links are separate or joined on? If they are joined on that's a red flag.
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Worn away or deliberately polished off? (Often happens with stolen watches).
 
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The model number is there, just not too visible in the pic. Check out the pic below.

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Again if the watch has had a tough life then maybe it's had a heavy polish... presumably the bezel has been polished or replaced since it would be hard to chip the edges of the crystal without scratching that
 
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Thank you for all replies.
@Aquagraph Not fully sure what you mean, can you see it from the next picture?
Regarding the numbering polished off, I think it can be the case, the model number is also not really well noticeable but still I can read x8625 wv211c.
Also regarding the bracelet, do you think that the shiny part of the link was polished off that much so it is now matted?
Also I remember once I read in the past that there were prototypes of this Jeff Gordon model without numbering, anyone heard about that?
Thanks again.
 
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So there are five links across the bracelet, the outer ones and the inner one which are brushed and the two thinner ones which should be polished. If the watch needed polishing it would be quite hard to do that properly and they might have decided to just brush the whole thing, on the other hand the back of the bracelet and inbetween the links also looks brushed. But then I wouldn't be surprised if TAG might not have put it on a slightly different bracelet... the dial suggests to me that it's probably genuine. It doesn't look like a dial that would be easy to replicate.
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So there are five links across the bracelet, the outer ones and the inner one which are brushed and the two thinner ones which should be polished. If the watch needed polishing it would be quite hard to do that properly and they might have decided to just brush the whole thing, on the other hand the back of the bracelet and inbetween the links also looks brushed. But then I wouldn't be surprised if TAG might not have put it on a slightly different bracelet... the dial suggests to me that it's probably genuine. It doesn't look like a dial that would be easy to replicate.
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It pains me how many bracelets have been ruined by people like that. Sure, it's harder, but not enough to just ruin the bracelets 🙁
 
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I notice the holes in the back of the bracelet, is it actually possible to take this style of bracelet apart for polishing? I mean the 'shoulder' rather than the links... ?
 
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I've bought both my Tags on eBay after asking people here. S/EL and Link Calibre S, both are "safer", because the replicas are really very bad. I'd never buy a newer Aquaracer, for instance.
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I've bought plenty, you just need to be careful and avoid popular models. Nobody is faking 3000 Series for example...
 
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