Thursday, November 25, 2010

Rolex Production Dates By Serial No.

As you know Rolex S.A. will not give you the production date of your Rolex watch.
With this page you will get an idea of the approximate date when your watch was
produced (but no guaranty for varification).

Just check your serial number which you can find on the certificate and between
the lugs at 6 oclock with the following chart that was accomplished by the
"Project" of the Vintage Rolex Forum and the members of the German Rolex Forum.

YearFrom To

=====================================
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
20190
23969
28290
29312

29312
29933
30823
34336
36856
40920
43793
71224
99775
106047
143509
230878
269561
302459
367946
529163
628840


709249
726639
793930
976195
30634
139400
216821
353343
399xxx
511687
6469xx
763663
95xxxx
997436
1193xxx
1289727
1554xxx
1720977
2060xxx
2504211
2728xxx
305xxxx
3523678
3761535
3886050
4155863
5008000
5238376
5952834
6434000
6594xxx
7129351
7862000
8338000
8624000
9290000
9863279

21691
24747






35365
37569





202026



387216




710776
840396
973830
43325
*
1297xx
217821
358xxx
426510
502683
642993
702xxx
894xxx
1021800
1195238
1259699
1557xxx
186xxxx
2477152
22927xx
2959xxx
3037xxx
3478400
3741300
4194183
4267100
4538000
5367817
5737030
6122790

6910000
7437845
8085072

8734xxx
9764478

* As you can see Rolex restarted counting in 1954 when they reached 1 Million.

Up to now the exchange cases started with 4,4 Mil. But since all those number are used up they start now with a 4,7 Mil.

In 1987 Rolex started to put a letter in front of the 6-digit serial number:

Letter
Started in...

_________________________________
R
L
E
X
N
C
S
W
T
U
A
P
K
Y
F
D
Z
M
V
G

1987
1988
1990
1991
1991 (Nov)
1992
1993
1995
1996
1997 (Aug)
1998 (Nov)
2000 (Jan)
2001 (Sep)
2002 (Sep)
2003 (Sep)
2005 (Apr)
2006 (May)
2007 (Aug)
2008 (Aug)
2010 (Jun)

At the beginning of 2010 Rolex changed the system to individualize their watches. By now the Serial Number will be composed of a random generated 8-digit mix of letters and numbers which means that from now on only Rolex can tell you when the watch was produced.

Reference to http://www.oysterworld.de/1/index.htm

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