This fake Daytona booklet was purchased off eBay a long time by a fellow collector who donated it for this website. It is a bad counterfeit. 



Which brochure is a fake?

Answer:  The Fake is on the Right

Notice the word "COSMOGRAPH" is in the wrong type style and the word also appears below Rolex at the bottom. Is this a version I am not aware of? It seems they just threw it on there.



Looking at the brochures at an angle. Notice the image from the fake (below) has no impressions from the printing equipment showing from the other side. This is not correct.



Now take a look at the correct brochure(below), notice just above the bright spot how there are little bumps showing from the image on the other side. Even the 'R' on this side of the page is not lying flat on the page, but is slightly pressed down. This is how it an original is supposed to look from an angle. Rolex used printing methods that made an indentation in the page during the 1950s and 1960s when printing these brochures. This is not the case on all their printed material, but on these brochures it was.

The same indentation is visible on the top portion of the brochure, just look at the word 'COSMOGRAPH.'



But there are more discrepancies, like the example below.

The image on the left is from the correct brochure. The paper has a yellow color from aging. The image on the right is from the fake. It is printed on paper that is very bright white and appears to have no aging, This is an important clue. When examined closely, the images on the fake are also inferior quality.

On this image from the back page, notice the Pan Am globe from the fake (left) has lines that are plugging up, while the Pan Am globe from the correct brochure (right) has even finer lines that do not plug in when printed.

In conclusion, this is fake brochure is not of good quality and should not fool anyone who has a sample to compare or has taken the time to look at this section.