I know it's easy to be wise when you know what you are looking at, and my first TAG (bought off eBay) many years ago turned out to be a fake with a brass bracelet (although to be fair it had a lovely white dial with some great machining and applied markers)... but these days, with the internet offering all the information you could ever want (should you care to look for it) there really is no excuse for hideous and awful things like this to find a buyer.
Apparently the date wheel is broken, but this will be 'easily fixed when it gets a service'. Yeah, or maybe not. Since no one in their right mind is going to service this... that's assuming the date wheel is even connected to anything of course.
It really is hilarious what some people come up with, and particularly how they've taken the Calibre S theme and run with it. I love how they've used the Calibre S subdials and moved them to the middle of the dial, in the process creating a day of the weeks indicator (maybe?) or is it a power reserve indicator? Who could say, but I'm pretty sure the exposed part of the 'movement' is all show and no go...
Remarkably, fakers are notorious for creating some fairly random models that do not (and have never) existed, which makes it easy for those in the know to spot them, but for the casual purchaser I guess it's not always so easy. There are surely some red flags with this one though, not least the poor placement of the TAG logo on the dial, which seems to be touching the '12' marker, also the poor etching on the clasp (and whatever the hell that is supposed to be on the side of it).
I notice this piece of junk is still up on eBay several days after I (and at least one other person) reported it, and currently selling for £185 in a shoddy looking cardboard case with a risibly poor TAG logo on it, I guess eBay are quite happy to take their selling fees and run.
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