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Vercingetorix Vercingetorix
i distinctly remember having a Speedmaster reduced where the serial number was inked on the caseback and no serial number on the movement.


I’ve just encountered this same problem. There were initially concerns that the Omega Speedmaster Automatic Date circa 1991 was fake but my watch may come from a period of “cheap” 7750 17 Jewel movements?

I have two case numbers which I’ve read enough on three pages to understand:
1750043 & 3750043

There is a serial number on the watch back:
53638035

I was going to pay for an Extract from the Archives because I love the watch but without a movement number I don’t see how I can do that.
 
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ironmandreamer ironmandreamer
There is a serial number on the watch back:
53638035

That is the serial number you would use, rather than the movement number. These movements were not numbered...at that time only the COSC versions were getting serial numbers on the movements.
 
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I have a newer 1957, and the serial number is on the lug like some have said previously. It is extremely hard to see for the untrained eye, it took me a couple of slow looks to find it. Mine is on the 6 o'clock lug on the 9 o'clock side.
 
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Archer Archer
That is the serial number you would use, rather than the movement number. These movements were not numbered...at that time only the COSC versions were getting serial numbers on the movements.

Archer you were right and thank you.
Omega issued an Extract of the Archives for my watch. I couldn’t have provided more information with my request. I believe there are some anomalies in the Omega catalogue from a time when the company was struggling financially which led to using old stock parts including a stock of Valjoux 7750 movements.
 
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Gentlemen, just to pick your brains a little bit.
The watch in question being a Geneve with serial No. 30365385.
Movement 565
Based on the table shown in the beginning posts of this thread, I conclude the year of manufacture is 1970.
Am I correct?
Please advise.
 
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nimzotech nimzotech
Gentlemen, just to pick your brains a little bit.
The watch in question being a Geneve with serial No. 30365385.
Movement 565
Based on the table shown in the beginning posts of this thread, I conclude the year of manufacture is 1970.
Am I correct?
Please advise.

Wow, 94 posts-streak in just over one week. I hate to break the suspense but have to ask directly "-what are you selling?"
 
nimzotech
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vitriol vitriol
Wow, 94 posts-streak in just over one week. I hate to break the suspense but have to ask directly "-what are you selling?"
Trolls...
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DiiQue
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JimInOz JimInOz
I'd start them off on a nice mild Kiwi beer, and then work them up to the proper stuff.

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Yahoo, Dan Murphy's sells them! Gotta make a run tomorrow. 😀
 
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vitriol vitriol
Wow, 94 posts-streak in just over one week. I hate to break the suspense but have to ask directly "-what are you selling?"

My thoughts exactly.
 
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Archer Archer
I don't have a lot of these in the shop, but this one certainly didn't have anything of that sort inside the case back...

Now that you mentioned a printed serial number, I may have seen this once on an older quartz model...but my memory of it is vague so not sure I can confirm.

I just got a Speedmaster reduced with printed serial in caseback.

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Archer
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Yes, as I said I had a vague recollection of a quartz watch with a serial number printed inside the case back like this - here it is:

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As you can see, it's already partially gone. Whoever cooked up this idea at Omega wasn't really thinking too much. I suspect a few trips through an ultrasonic cleaning tank and this would be gone completely...
 
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Snowman Snowman
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On the movement very easy to date

how about years like 1976, 1981, etc.?

no production on those years?
 
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Snowman Snowman
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On the movement very easy to date
Thanks for posting this; I can now date the movement in my oddity to 1908.
 
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