Serial number question re. Scrambled Numbers

[Rick Deckard]

Good Evening,

I have a quick question, just to serve my own paranoia.��

Currently, I’m looking at a Lady Datejust 279173 for my wife. I have a watch that’s being offered to me dated early 2022. Of course, it comes with a scrambled serial number.

The serial number starts with an “F” and is then followed by seven numerical digits. All my other Rolexes have more letters in the serial number, not just a letter as the first character and then only numbers. I remember that there were F-serials back in the day, but I think they were only followed by six digits. I thought that Rolex would want to make sure that there’s no confusion, and that’s why they included more characters from the alphabet in the scrambled numbers.

My question to you is, does anybody else have a scrambled serial that just starts with a letter and is followed by only numbers? I know it’s probably not something to worry about, but it just struck me as odd. My first reaction was, look at that, an F-serial from 2022. ��

Thanks for your input!