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Looking to date an Omega Aqua Terra I'm thinking of buying.
Triad a few online checkers, not sure if the results are accurate though.

I'm told the watch is a 2015, one check say it's a 2010.
I need to sure before I get back to the seller.
Serial number is. 90592575

Amy help would be very much appreciated.


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Is there any reason why you don’t believe it is from 2015? Because you really cannot tell by the serial number - those online charts are mainly guesses and geared primarily to vintage Soeedmasters.

If you trust the seller to buy the watch from them, surely you can trust them on the approximate date.
 
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It's not a question of trust, he may have made a genuine mistake. I don't know.
All the information I can gather points to the 90 numbers being around 2010.
I bought the watch in good faith on the understanding it was year 2015.
The online checker I used specifically excludes the Speedmasters.
If you bought a car in good faith and you found out that the car was five years older, would be totally happy with it? I think not.
 
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Here’s why those online tables are not accurate.

I have a Speedmaster FOIS, purchased new in 2017 and the shop had just received it. Serial number 87******.

I have a Seamaster 300 purchased new in 2019. Serial # is 89******.

if I used an online decoder, it tells me the Speedmaster was made in 2000 and the Seamaster in 2009, which is just wrong. They aren’t worth using on a modern watch. If that is your basis for worrying you have a watch from 2010 and not 2015, it’s not a very good one.
 
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I have a Seamaster 300 purchased new in 2019. Serial # is 89******
I have a Seamaster Trilogy from 2017 which starts with 89*.
 
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definitely not produced in 2015, the only qtz models available in 2015 had teak dials and were only offered in black and white
 
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I have a Seamaster Trilogy from 2017 which starts with 89*.

exactly. Maybe mine was made in 2017, maybe the case and bridge with the serial number were made in 2015 when the model first came out and wasn’t put together until 2018/2019. The point is, it definitely was not made in 2009, which is what a lot of those online serial lookup charts would suggest. No one really knows when a modern Omega watch was made based solely on the serial number only.
 
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definitely not produced in 2015, the only qtz models available in 2015 had teak dials and were only offered in black and white

did I miss something? I don’t see any info from the original poster that it was quartz.
 
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definitely not produced in 2015, the only qtz models available in 2015 had teak dials and were only offered in black and white

Yes, the watch in question is quartz, and it has the blue sunburst dial, not teak dial.
 
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Looking to date an Omega Aqua Terra I'm thinking of buying.
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I bought the watch in good faith on the understanding it was year 2015.

You bought it between your first and second post?
 
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You bought it between your first and second post?

Not sure what you mean. I have 30 days to return the wartch.
 
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exactly. Maybe mine was made in 2017, maybe the case and bridge with the serial number were made in 2015 when the model first came out and wasn’t put together until 2018/2019. The point is, it definitely was not made in 2009, which is what a lot of those online serial lookup charts would suggest. No one really knows when a modern Omega watch was made based solely on the serial number only.
What’s the serial number of your watch?
 
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What’s the serial number of your watch?

Look up several posts and you will see that I already answered this question. One other thing, pictures of the watch would REALLY help this conversation.
 
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Hi, the model is a Aqua Terra Model: 2517.80.00
Serial number is. 90592575
 
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Ok, update, I have seen Aqua Terre's for sale dated 2012 and these are Quartz with a Teak dial. So I think it is unlikely that a fist gen non teak dial would be a 2015.

Done a little bit more digging and it looks like the New gen Aqua Terra's were released in 2008.
The Skyfall version was 2012. So I'm really struggling to see how mine could accurately described has a year 2010.
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You can date a modern omega based on serial but it is hideously complicated and you need a lot of comparison data points from within the model series since different models are in different ranges. A Speedy serial is no good for dating a Seamaster and quartz and auto use different ranges too so you need to compare apples with apples.

I have a quartz AT with serial 90.80m which has papers dated 2010. I'll double check but I am fairly sure it is the same model as yours, or at least very similar it certainly looks the same as a quick google of the model number you posted, though mine has a black and yours must be blue with that model code. I know the model numbers of my more cherished models off by heart, but I treat this as more a beater. If the pattern continues with yours, then that does suggest it is earlier than mine, more like 2008/9 maybe. But Omega have a nasty habit of jumping around in serial ranges so I am not speaking definitively.

Here is mine, 39mm quartz AT, does it look like the one you are considering, but black? Out of interest, what are they asking for it?

IMG_6752.JPG
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Sounds like you have commitment issues Ron.
Don't understand? If you think I am beginning to doubt the age of the watch I'm looking to buy, then yes, you're correct.
 
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You can date a modern omega based on serial but it is hideously complicated and you need a lot of comparison data points from within the model series since different models are in different ranges. A Speedy serial is no good for dating a Seamaster and quartz and auto use different ranges too so you need to compare apples with apples.

I have a quartz AT with serial 90.80m which has papers dated 2010. I'll double check but I am fairly sure it is the same model as yours, or at least very simile it certainly looks the same as a quick google of the model number you posted, though mine has a black and yours must be blue with that model code. I know the model numbers of my more cherished models off by heart, but I treat this as more a beater. If the pattern continues with yours, then that does suggest it is earlier than mine, more like 2008/9 maybe. But Omega have a nasty habit of jumping around in serial ranges so I am not speaking definitively.

Here is mine, 39mm quartz AT, does it look like the one you are considering, but black? Out of interest, what are they asking?

IMG_6752.JPG
Thanks, yes same watch, but mine has blue dial.
It's hard to believe mine could be 2015 year, when the second generation came out at
around 2009, 2010
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As I say, yours is close enough to mine in model type to make me think it is more like ~2009, bearing in mind my serial is higher. Why do you think it is newer than this? If the papers are dated later, that doesn't mean it is newer, just that it sat for a while before sale. The seller was maybe just guessing using the same online tables you are earlier. Which we know are useless. Don't let it worry you. It will run well for decades with just the occasional battery change and reseal.
 
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