Bezel misprint ?

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My serial number is 29111550

That is very interesting as most of the 220 bezel were know to start with 30 and be within a certain range. I wonder if yours was added on later somehow? Your serial would most likely indicate a DON bezel from what I can remember off my head (brain fried been working 12+ hr days of work past 2 weeks so don't quote me lol)
 
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Great! Mine is 29113... very close. So I think that the range of serials in Moonwatch only book it's too tight.

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Great! Mine is 29113... very close. So I think that the range of serials in Moonwatch only book it's too tight.

@speedy4ever
Interesting the serial numbers are so close and both are 220 bezel
I wonder in what months these were manufacted.
 
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Great! Mine is 29113... very close. So I think that the range of serials in Moonwatch only book it's too tight.

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Not really that great since you've just devalued your bezel by a bit. 😜
 
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Not really that great since you've just devalued your bezel by a bit. 😜
I'm sure that there are much more "wrong" bezels that we think...
 
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It's more like hundreds , the reason I say that is you rarely see them coming up for sale.
 
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It's more like hundreds , the reason I say that is you rarely see them coming up for sale.
Depends on how you define rarely, but I've seen them shown up every month for the last year. There are other watches, like some Constellations, I've been looking for and only seen them once every few months or few years.
 
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Just a question with the serial numbers mine is 29111 and yours is 29113. Does that mean there is one watch between them?
 
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Just a question with the serial numbers mine is 29111 and yours is 29113. Does that mean there is one watch between them?
no this is 29.111.xxx and 29.113.xxx, so maximum 2000
 
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Just a question with the serial numbers mine is 29111 and yours is 29113. Does that mean there is one watch between them?
There are 2000 watches between 29111xxx and 29113xxx, but that includes other models also.
 
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Great! Mine is 29113... very close. So I think that the range of serials in Moonwatch only book it's too tight.

@speedy4ever

Of course, as official data do not exist, we based our figures on mass observations and thus we might be wrong.

2 "220" lost in the middle of hundreds of DON bezels in the 29 million range...not impossible with a 45 years old production system.

More important is to consider the production date. Of the several hundreds 145.022-69 we have in our database, the relationship between production date and bezel type is rather clear:
- DON (type B1) until September/October 1970
- 220 (type B2bis) from end August 1970 to end December 1970 (possibly until January 1971 with new data we had, still to be verified)
- type B2 from November 1970

In both transitions, there might be an overlap of 1-2 months.

We can see earlier type B2, but most probably correspond to replacement bezel of DON, remember that B2 were factory-fitted until around 1990 and thus were the service bezels.
Finally, if those 29.11x.xxx with 220 bezels were produced in let's say August 1970 or later, that would likely work.
 
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There are 2000 watches between 29111xxx and 29113xxx, but that includes other models also.
thanks for clearing up.
Any idea how many SM were build in 1970
 
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Please bare with me as I am new to all this. What's the difference between the B2bis and B2
 
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Please bare with me as I am new to all this. What's the difference between the B2bis and B2

B2 is the standard version from the 70´s and 80´s, while B2bis is identical except 220 misprint
 
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@cstoitsis, I highly recommend picking up a copy of the book if you can. Between the book (for consolidated, in depth data) and speedmaster101.com (for detailed and handy where-ever-you-are reference), you can't go wrong.