How close did your birth year watch get?

vinylcall · Dec 27, 2019

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... ::facepalm1::

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!

STANDY · Dec 27, 2019

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.

Ludi · Dec 27, 2019

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

👍

base615 · Dec 27, 2019

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.

Shabbaz · Dec 27, 2019

My year sucks regarding vintage watches...

DaveK · Dec 27, 2019

Shabbaz
My year sucks regarding vintage watches...

1968 as well?

Shabbaz · Dec 27, 2019

DaveK
1968 as well?

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

allwoundup · Dec 27, 2019

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.

Bumper · Dec 27, 2019

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

kov · Dec 27, 2019

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

jlam1127 · Dec 27, 2019

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

BlackTalon · Dec 27, 2019

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.

Alpha · Dec 27, 2019

STANDY
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.

Wonder why that beauty looks familiar 👍

Alpha · Dec 27, 2019

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 🤦

Denarius · Dec 27, 2019

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

Mad Dog · Dec 27, 2019

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.

bubba48 · Dec 27, 2019

My birth year 1948

watchknut · Dec 27, 2019

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.

UncleBuck · Dec 27, 2019

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

TimeODanaos · Dec 27, 2019

allwoundup
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.

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! 😁

How close did your birth year watch get?

vinylcall

STANDY

Ludi

base615

Shabbaz

DaveK

Shabbaz

allwoundup

Bumper

kov

jlam1127

BlackTalon

Alpha

Alpha

Denarius

Mad Dog

bubba48

watchknut

UncleBuck

TimeODanaos

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