mantleray
·Hey all. Recently purchased a new SMP 300M, ref number 210.22.42.20.03.002. Goes without saying that I love the darn thing, its a real beauty. As the post title suggests, I'm trying to narrow down the manufacture date, preferably to a specific year.
For starters, it seems this particular model has been in production since 2019. Another datapoint is that I bought the watch gray market from a solid seller; came with original box/papers including fully filled-in warranty card, so I can see from the card that the watch was sold by the AD in June 2022 (or so they wrote). So I know it was produced sometime between 2019 to mid-2022. Going further than this seems hard. Here are some things I tried:
1) Calling Omega. Sales told me they can't don't have the info for watches sold to ADs outside the US, and the service dept. told me the only thing they offer is "archive extract" but thats for older watches. So they can't tell me lol
2) the manual that came with the watch is dated 2019, i don't think thats much help. The white cardboard box that houses the wood box the watch sits in has a sticker on the bottom thats dated 10/2021, but not clear what this refers to
3) a further narrowing down could be asking the AD when they received the watch, but this may difficult since they're in a country whose language i don't speak. I could ask the seller I bought from i suppose.
If anyone has suggestions on how to narrow this down, would greatly appreciate it! Watch number is 835xxxxx. I know this question may be a bit silly since I can narrow the date down within ~3.5 years, but this is my first major watch purchase and I'm just trying to find out as much as I can, call me sentimental.
As an aside, why the heck is this so difficult to determine??? I understand how this could be hard for vintage watches, but I'm talking about a watch made in the past few years! One would think in the age of computers this would be trivial. Anyone have context on this?
For starters, it seems this particular model has been in production since 2019. Another datapoint is that I bought the watch gray market from a solid seller; came with original box/papers including fully filled-in warranty card, so I can see from the card that the watch was sold by the AD in June 2022 (or so they wrote). So I know it was produced sometime between 2019 to mid-2022. Going further than this seems hard. Here are some things I tried:
1) Calling Omega. Sales told me they can't don't have the info for watches sold to ADs outside the US, and the service dept. told me the only thing they offer is "archive extract" but thats for older watches. So they can't tell me lol
2) the manual that came with the watch is dated 2019, i don't think thats much help. The white cardboard box that houses the wood box the watch sits in has a sticker on the bottom thats dated 10/2021, but not clear what this refers to
3) a further narrowing down could be asking the AD when they received the watch, but this may difficult since they're in a country whose language i don't speak. I could ask the seller I bought from i suppose.
If anyone has suggestions on how to narrow this down, would greatly appreciate it! Watch number is 835xxxxx. I know this question may be a bit silly since I can narrow the date down within ~3.5 years, but this is my first major watch purchase and I'm just trying to find out as much as I can, call me sentimental.
As an aside, why the heck is this so difficult to determine??? I understand how this could be hard for vintage watches, but I'm talking about a watch made in the past few years! One would think in the age of computers this would be trivial. Anyone have context on this?