When did the red Omega warranty card start?

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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!
 
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I have seen 2002 and 2001 watches with the red warranty cards so 2000 is my guess.
 
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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.
 
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My Gold Deville Prestige purchased new from an AD on 1st May 2002 has the cream coloured card
 
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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:



Second cream version seen late 1990s:



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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