OMEGA new serials?

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AntonisCy

·Jul 11, 2020

I have just seen a new Diver 300m with a serial number "A003**8

 

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padders

·Jul 11, 2020·Oooo subtitles!

Yep. Its either a random system a la Rolex or more likely a system that uses A then a 5 or 6 digit number. Omega hit 100K late last year and rather than add a digit started again with an A.

The reason why I think it isn't a random serial is that all I have seen start A...

 

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Scarecrow Boat

·Jul 11, 2020

We will likely see them use the alphabet over a long span of time. It keeps serials short vs adding more and more numbers.

 

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ChiefMark

·Jul 11, 2020

Using letters your level of entropy increases very significantly. Omega won’t run out of serial numbers before we go back to sticks and stones with 8 characters of 0-9 and A-Z.

 

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YY77

·Jul 11, 2020

The use of letters and numbers have been used in vehicle ID no's for ages, the 8th character from the right is the model year, i.e. K=2020, L=2021 (Q and O will be skipped).

 

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Gruesome

·Jul 11, 2020

It's really hard to run out of numbers. But maybe they need to save space because watches are going to get smaller again?

 

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rob#1

·Jul 11, 2020

This makes sense - at least they haven’t gone the way of the reference numbers which supersized when they went from, for example, 3570.50 to 311.30.42.30.01.005 😵‍💫