Greetings all,
This has probably been covered before but the search feature didn’t yield anything i could find, nor did google.
What does the circled number on the bracelet clasps mean?
Thanks,
James

 

Perhaps post a photo...

 

I’ve also seen them with 32 and 12 in circles.

 

It’s just denotes the run/ tooling used.

In theory if anyone tried to correlate it, you could figure out mfg date.

 

Is that the run per bracelet? The 1171 marked “11” is on a my 1972 Speedmaster, but I just got a 1958 Seamaster on 3010 BOR marked “32”.

 

Numbers between different bracelets do not have correlation.

When using dies to punch/stamp metal you mark each die with either a production run or number of the die for that part. As Dies are used they change shape. They can be used to denote a run or if multiple dies in a run are used to QC the run and ID which die has stretched.

 

Gotcha. Kind of like the matrix numbers in the dead-wax of LP’s which give you the pressing run.