Compax

What to inspect

The defining fraud on the reference. Reproduction dials are made to a good standard and are fitted to genuine, correctly period Universal Genève chronographs, which means every conventional check on case, movement and hands can pass. The evidence is in the dial itself — printing that sits on rather than in the surface, register rings whose edges are too sharp or too soft, subtly wrong wordmark proportions — and in aging that does not match the rest of the watch.

What to inspect

A real Nina Rindt dial moved into a better case. Harder than a reproduction to detect, because the dial itself will pass any test applied to it in isolation. Consistency of aging between dial, hands and case is the available evidence, together with whether the case's own reference stamping matches.