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Old 18 August 2010, 06:38 AM   #1
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G - Series Rolex's spotted! and random S/N questions!

I have seen on a Swedish forum that some G series Rolex were spotted, apparently it is NOT random serial numbers!

Have anyone else seen this?

My all new SS / SubC has an standard V 98X XXX serial number, witch I really like:-)

I assume random numbers should never start with an letter as for example, Z, M and V because you could then mix them up with older models that can then clam to be random number?

what do you think?

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Old 18 August 2010, 08:10 AM   #2
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Mine starts with GU and then has 6 numbers after that.
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Old 18 August 2010, 08:16 AM   #3
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I have a recently bought (from AD) SS Submariner 16610 (non-ceramic) which has a serial number GXXXXXX. It is new, and not a V series serial number as your Ceramic Sub.

Does that add to the confusion?
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Old 18 August 2010, 08:19 AM   #4
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Mine start with GI and then it says food. Damn, sorry that was my wife's box.
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Old 18 August 2010, 10:48 AM   #5
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I assume random numbers should never start with an letter as for example, Z, M and V because you could then mix them up with older models that can then clam to be random number?

what do you think?

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As I see it-- if it is a random number case-- it tends to have more than one letter in it.. so I don't think it would matter if it had a z, m or v.
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Old 18 August 2010, 12:13 PM   #6
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As I see it-- if it is a random number case-- it tends to have more than one letter in it.. so I don't think it would matter if it had a z, m or v.
That would seem to make sense, but I recently saw a bnib Sub (16610) that had all numbers and ended in 1 letter. I'd call it a random too
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Old 18 August 2010, 04:25 PM   #7
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In series serial #'s are 7 characters.
Random have 8.
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Old 18 August 2010, 08:13 PM   #8
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I thought joche were g- s- t-r- I -n- g .

Especially for his wife.....
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Old 20 August 2010, 04:29 AM   #9
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Just got my Sub C with a G serial number (Aug 18/2010). Dealer said the watch came in last week.
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Old 20 August 2010, 02:07 PM   #10
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Just got my Sub C with a G serial number (Aug 18/2010). Dealer said the watch came in last week.
Congrats!

How many characters do you have in your serial?

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Old 20 August 2010, 02:20 PM   #11
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so confusing, but still interesting
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Old 20 August 2010, 02:23 PM   #12
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I recall two posts within the past month or so of G (non-random) S/N's

has G ever been used before?

...in the non-random serial number world of Rolex?

curious.
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