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When did the red Omega warranty card start?

  1. Peter_from_NL Nov 29, 2020

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    Does anybody know? Before that you had the white/crème one. When was that around 2003 or so?

    Just curious because I am looking at a watch which has the new one but is old so I am afraid the warranty card is a fake.

    thanks!
     
  2. vitriol Dec 1, 2020

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    I have seen 2002 and 2001 watches with the red warranty cards so 2000 is my guess.
     
  3. padders Oooo subtitles! Dec 1, 2020

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    There have been a couple of versions of the red card but the cream one seems to have disappeared around 1997. There wont be many (any?) Superluminova lume models with the old cream card.
     
  4. DNX Dec 2, 2020

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    My Gold Deville Prestige purchased new from an AD on 1st May 2002 has the cream coloured card
     
  5. padders Oooo subtitles! Dec 2, 2020

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    I may have been in error above or at least not explained myself very well. There were 2 cream cards used in the 1990s. The first one had a red border. That is one that seems to have disappeared by 1997. There was a second version used that was seen up to roughly 2000. It used to be the case until 5 years ago that you could for a fee ask Omega to replace missing cards which they would do but with the original numbers and date of production but they no longer do this, so a later card can legitimately sometimes be seen with a watch if this has occurred.

    First cream version, seen early 1990s and I think late 1980s:

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    Second cream version seen late 1990s:

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    First red version seen circa 2000 until around 2005, maybe a little later, note 2011 is a market code not a date.

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    Pictures gratuitously stolen from the internet.
     
    Edited Dec 2, 2020
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