Does anyone know, if the serial numbers and casebacks are randomly associated, but both are in a limited range (serial numbers 48169000 to 48169999 and caseback LE numbers presumably 1-1000), and the watches were issued over 3 years: is either number correlated with release date, or are both also randomly distributed over the time these watches were shipped? I'm curious about the implications for understanding of the internal operations: did Omega make 1000 movements and 1000 backs, put them on the shelf, and pick one of each out as they needed a 345.0808 over the years? Or was one or the other merely allocated (setting aside the serial numbers, for example), and then manufactured as the time went by in response to demand?
I don't have an extract for my watch, with a caseback number of 0986, but the serial number is …587, so I guess I don't know a lot about when it was issued. It has the "APOLLO XI", so based on what
@trioli_l says, it's post-1986.
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