Help needed on Submariner 41 bracelet and number identifiers

[Rahul718]

Hello all,

Can anyone confirm if the Submariner 41 124060 and 126610 bracelets are 100% the same and have the same end links? I have both references and think I may have mixed them up while taking the bracelets off, but I don’t have any way to truly confirm. I think they’re both the same, but then the number identifiers below threw me off.

I pulled these pictures from online of the 97JB00 bracelet for the Sub 41. Are the circled numbers supposed to match? Mine do not, and the pictured ones do not as well. I would have thought that the clasp and end links would match, or at the very least, both of end links.

Thanks
Rahul

[Tools]

Those numbers are coded manufacture codes and do not match from watch to watch. The only time they would match is with other bracelets made in the same batch at the factory.

[Rahul718]

Originally Posted by Tools

Those numbers are coded manufacture codes and do not match from watch to watch. The only time they would match is with other bracelets made in the same batch at the factory.

Thanks for replying.

In this case, all 3 pictures are from the same bracelet, so you're saying it's normal for the end links to have different manufacture codes?

[Tools]

Originally Posted by Rahul718

Thanks for replying.

In this case, all 3 pictures are from the same bracelet, so you're saying it's normal for the end links to have different manufacture codes?

It is not unusual.

When we knew the codes we would expect to see them close enough to be within a year or two, giving us confidence that they would be original to the era of the watch.

With the new random codes. these differences have become meaningless without one day learning how to decode them.

In an ideal world they would all be the same, but bracelets are made by taking the individual parts from different bins and putting them together. Once the next, and the next, production runs are dumped into the parts bins then distinct lines are blurred.

[Rahul718]

Originally Posted by Tools

It is not unusual.

When we knew the codes we would expect to see them close enough to be within a year or two, giving us confidence that they would be original to the era of the watch.

With the new random codes. these differences have become meaningless without one day learning how to decode them.

In an ideal world they would all be the same, but bracelets are made by taking the individual parts from different bins and putting them together. Once the next, and the next, production runs are dumped into the parts bins then distinct lines are blurred.

Thanks Tools.

I’ll assume that the 124060 and 126610 share the same exact bracelet and end links then, if solely going by the 97JB00 reference number

[Rahul718]

Bump

Do the 124060 and 126610 definitively share the same exact bracelets? I know the bracelet reference is 97JB00, but unsure if there's another identifier that sets them apart.