When your vintage watch and another OF member's watch is just 1 serial number away...

It's a strange coincidence, but due to the high volume of vintage collectors here, such coincidences do occur.

Over the past 8 years, it's happened twice - where a member puts up a vintage watch for sale, and I have the same model. Usually if it's a less commonly seen model, out of curiousity I sometimes check the serial number of the seller's watch vs mine. And on occasion, the 2 watches are just 1 serial number away!

The first time it happened was when @watchknut sold his Longines 4734 which isn't often seen. As it turns out, my 4734 was just 1 number away.

And this month, it happened again. @Dan S is selling his Rolex 6424, and my 6424 also has the same bracelet, endlinks and even clasp code. And Dan's 6424 was again just 1 serial number away from mine when I asked.

Like I said, not entirely surprising given the forum members' collections here, but still kinda nerdy cool 😜.

I'm sure some of you have had similar experiences - care to share?

My Tudor MN Sub is one serial number away from one that Ross Povey owned (https://tudorcollector.com/). When I was looking at buying it, I got help from several experts who said it looked ok. But the serial number coincidence was definitely one of the things that gave me the confidence to buy it, since they were known to be made in serial number ranges.

"Number Neighbours" is a good term!