Ultra Rare Universal Geneve - OR Fake? PLEASE HELP

redpcar
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Are you able to go see the watch in person and take some better shots? Is the seller wanting some astronomical price?
 
LouS
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Thank you for your advice! I am just not sure, if this piece was even manufactured by UG.

no-one else seems to have any doubt - it wasn't!
 
PhilipvD
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It will be difficult to see it in person. And I don't know much about watch movements etc. I just like the dial and I have already 2 universals.

And yes he asks quite a lot for a UG watch
 
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LouS LouS
no-one else seems to have any doubt - it wasn't!
the only thing that goes through my mind is, that it my be a prototype and very rare...
 
LouS
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the only thing that goes through my mind is, that it my be a prototype and very rare...

Very rare I have no doubt. As for prototype, I suspect it is a prototype in the same way that a Trabant painted red with "V12" badges is a prototype Ferrari.
 
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Very rare I have no doubt. As for prototype, I suspect it is a prototype in the same way that a Trabant painted red with "V12" badges is a prototype Ferrari.
hahah so its not worth buying it, if I want to collect UG
 
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If you want to collect UG you would already have a book or two and know that to have a chrono you would need a pusher to engage it.
 
PhilipvD
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STANDY STANDY
If you want to collect UG you would already have a book or two and know that to have a chrono you would need a pusher to engage it.
You can collect watches without having books about them -.- and there is such a thIng as a one bottom chronograph pusher...
 
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Giving you some advice not trying to be narcy like your reply.

This would save you asking advice on here about a Fake Chrono without a pusher and then telling me that there is bottom pusher watches when the one you showed does not even have a top one let alone a bottom anything.

PhilipvD PhilipvD
the only thing that goes through my mind is, that it my be a prototype and very rare...

😗

Happy Collecting
 
Stewart H
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You can collect watches without having books about them
Research is the essence of this hobby so any serious collector will have all of the material available for him to do that research.

PhilipvD PhilipvD
.- and there is such a thIng as a one bottom chronograph pusher...
Whilst there are many single pusher chronographs and there are also dial-side chronographs, this is neither. It doesn't have any pushers and I seriously doubt that it is a chronograph as there is nothing to operate it. Also the movement would have to be ridiculously thick to accommodate the chronograph and the necessary wheels to drive that dial configuration.
 
PhilipvD
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Wow so sensitive. Well thanks for the advice anyway. So its a not functional home build watch. With a fake UG stamp on it.
 
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Research is the essence of this hobby so any serious collector will have all of the material available for him to do that research.


Whilst there are many single pusher chronographs and there are also dial-side chronographs, this is neither. It doesn't have any pushers and I seriously doubt that it is a chronograph as there is nothing to operate it. Also the movement would have to be ridiculously thick to accommodate the chronograph and the necessary wheels to drive that dial configuration.
But what is this button on the top for?
 
Stewart H
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If you like it, buy it. We've given you all the advice we can.
 
PhilipvD
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Stewart H Stewart H
If you like it, buy it. We've given you all the advice we can.
Thanks, but it's not made by UG?
 
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But what is this button on the top for?

Changes the dial colour.
 
Stewart H
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If it was, it was just after the pubs kicked out on 1st April.
 
PhilipvD
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Thanks all for your expertise. I will close this discussion and we came to a conclusion. Cheers
 
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