Is this a fake butterfly primorac off-?

says cornilleau hinotec off+ is a carbon blade well suited...
says cornilleau hinotec off+ is a carbon blade well suited...
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a friend bought this blade a few weeks ago. I got suspicious cuz of some discripancies in the blade and the labels

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I don't know if it's fake. But it certainly doesn't look like my Primorac blade. It has to be said that my blade is quite an old one, so Butterfly might have changed the design a bit.
 

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There is a spelling mistake on the surface. It says "WORLD LWADING" instead of "WORLD LEADING". If your blade is a shakehand blade, there should be actually FL (flared), AN (anatomic), ST (straight) or CO (conic, quite rare) and not CS (CPen). Your blade also has two black layers (carbon?), but a Primorac Off- normally doesnt has black layers.
 
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There is a spelling mistake on the surface. It says "WORLD LWADING" instead of "WORLD LEADING". If your blade is a shakehand blade, there should be actually FL (flared), AN (anatomic), ST (straight) or CO (conic, quite rare) and not CS (CPen). Your blade also has two black layers (carbon?), but a Primorac Off- normally doesnt has black layers.

Yeah i notices the text as well! But i was not sure if it was just the picture that was unclear
 
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I cannot tell whether the darker plies are wood or carbon. They look like wood to me from the photo, but they do not look like the plies of a Primorac Off-. Also, it does not look like it says Off- on the blade face it looks like it says Off 3x and the + and the - are pretty distinct on other blades I have seen photos of. Last thing, that metal label on the bottom of the handle looks like an imitation of that metal label to me. I have a few blades from back in the day that have that, and they look slightly different, the lettering of the first few letters of Butterfly looks different.
 
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