Estimating the manufacture date of a recent SMP 300M

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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?
 
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You’re not going to date it better than the sale date, I’m afraid, not without a lot of luck. Since the box comes separate from the watch, any date on the box is meaningless. If you can find someone who ordered one direct from the factory through anAD and it has a serial number close to yours, then you might narrow it down. But even then, it might not have come direct from the factory, but from a distributor where it had been sitting. And I believe Omega has also started randomizing serial numbers, which makes it harder.

Never understood the obsession with knowing the exact date a watch was manufactured — do you care when your car was made? Probably not, and that info is actually readily available on the sticker on the door jamb.
 
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Omega, and other watch companies, prefer that you not know how long it took for a watch to go from being made to being sold as that knowledge could hurt the sales of older new stock.
 
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Thanks for the perspectives. Indeed, seems unlikely I’ll get any further on this, so I’ll content myself with the partial information above.

I’d say I’m understanding more why this information is inaccessible and why I shouldn’t care too much though I’ll point out that people typically do care about year by a car model; even if not indicative of manufacture date, one still likes to know if they’re getting a 2023 Toyota vs 2021 for a variety of reasons, etc
 
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Thanks for the perspectives. Indeed, seems unlikely I’ll get any further on this, so I’ll content myself with the partial information above.

I’d say I’m understanding more why this information is inaccessible and why I shouldn’t care too much though I’ll point out that people typically do care about year by a car model; even if not indicative of manufacture date, one still likes to know if they’re getting a 2023 Toyota vs 2021 for a variety of reasons, etc
That is easy as the 10th letter of the VIN is the MY designation (P is '23, R will be '24).