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Got a Chanel J12 with wrong writing on dial?


Tom

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Just received an all ceramic chanel J12 chrono with jap quartz from a respected dealer.

There are a couple of things wrong with it which I can definitely live with - firstly the bezel is just slightly misaligned. Apparently this cannot really be adjusted and I don't want to send it back because of that.

The thing that I have noticed is that on the front the dial is wrong.

The dial should say

CHANEL

J12

Automatic

Above the hands and then

OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED CHRONOMETER

around the subdial at '6'

Mine doesn't say Automatic (I can live with this)

then it says

CHRONOGRAPHTIME

at 6!!!

Has anyone else got one like this. What do you think? It's a horrible mistake, but maybe a lot of them are like that. Will people really notice?

What do you think?

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Pics over words ;)

Sorry - here it is.

Check out the misaligned bezel and left hand subdial hand. Not much but enough to annoy.

But the main thing is the writing. It just doesn't make sense!!

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If you purchased the quartz version, it won't say automatic on the dial.

That is a very good point and one I hadn't thought of!!

Does Chanel make an automatic chrono? in which case do they make a quartz chrono? If they don't I wonder why people buy the very expensive swiss quartz versions?

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They make a J12 Chronograph.

example:

chanel_j12_chronograph_h1008.jpg

They also make a "superleggera" edition but it's just a bicompax version.

Both are based on the 2894 and I don't think they've made one yet because it would be too thick if it used a 7750.

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I think the men's 38mm version is the non-chrono with ETA movement, most of the other non-chronos are smaller and quartz.

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