Ok, so I decided on hunting down a birth year watch for me.
Unfortunately I missed one here on OF that was produced on my birthday (however a year earlier) that sold too fast for me to buy it...
Anyway, half the drama because it was produced a year too early but the birthdate coincidence was still very appealing.

I know, looking for a birthday watch that was produced on you exact birthdate/year will be the literal search for a needle in a haystack, aka mission impossible, but hey that's the fun about it and keeps the hunting spirit alive.

So, how close did you get with your birthday / birth year watch?

- Just year?
- Year and month?
- Year, month and date?

Would love to hear some stories and see some pictures of your catches!

 

Just buy watches, and sooner or later ones a birth year. Think I have 2 or 3 now. Don’t really care that much about birth year watches.

 

Year here... can’t be more accurate

Bought some years ago - before all of that Heuer mania - from the late vintageheuerforum hosted by GVM, essentially because of its aviation connection. Being a birth year watch is just a bonus.







I had such a great time there

 

I used to have a Seiko Bullhead that had my month and year printed on it but that could have been when the caseback was manufactured and everything else happened a year or so before or after. You never know for sure.

 

My year sucks regarding vintage watches...

 

1968 as well?

 

Haha. Nope. I like '68! I'm from the dark omega ages: the 70's...

 

I had it in my head that I would like a vintage Seamaster, though not necessarily from my birth year. I came across an online auction for a “lot” of several watches, mostly women’s cocktail watches. The auction photos were tiny and terrible. I don’t think the description of the lot even mentioned that it included an Omega. I blew the photos up as large as I could and thought on of the watches might have an Omega logo on the dial. Doing a Google image search of vintage Seamasters, I came to believe the watch was likely from the late 1950s. I won the auction, and the watch turned out to be from my birth year, 1958.

 

Hamilton GG-W-113, .same month & year i was born

 

Four birth year Moonwatches, the closest one is only one month and a half younger than me

 

Man, I'm chasing a 1974 Rolex Sub FaP..... Better start thinning the herd to get that grail...

 

How close? Off by a couple of years. Originally wanted a -66 Speedmaster, but they were typically not assembled until 1967 so it would not have really been a '66. I bought a '67. It was probably assemble in '68, but I guess it is possible some of the parts were manufactured in '66. Really what it came down to was realizing there is no such thing as 'birth year', and at most it will either be the year on the caseback (so when the case was manufactured) or when it was assembled, which could be 1-3 years after the case and/ or movement were made. And that is not even taking tin to account when the dial, hands, pushers or crowns were manufactured.

 

Wonder why that beauty looks familiar

 

A gift and mere sixteen years out, perhaps I took a long time to learn how to tell the time - sorry as this tale seems to surface regularly

 

Extract of archives says this 145.022-71T is birth year and 88 days younger than me..

 

I didn’t get very close...one year and eight days after my birthday in 1964 according to the Omega Extract of the Archives that was included with the purchase of the watch. That’s OK, though...I was more concerned with the watch movement serial number falling in the 1964 model year range as well as the case back being signed 64...and as an added bonus [which I didn’t notice for months] the 7912 bracelet that came with the watch is also signed 64.

 

My birth year 1948

 

Rolex didn’t make gilt dials in 1979...so don’t have anything to look for

I’ve sold all my birthyear watches...they are a novelty that quickly wears off.

 

Big deal to me at the time I bought it, now, not so much.

 

Darn, but 1958 was a great year, wasn't it?! Big seahorse says hello - one of these days I must get that extract, thanks for reminding me!