Explorer II

[krieves]

Two years ago I purchased a new Explorer II. I've been really happy with the watch. I recently was curious when the watch was made and when I looked up the serial number found it was made in 2003. Is it common for Rolex to take 7 years to make from the factory to sale? And does it effect the value of the watch?

Thanks for any insights!

Ken.

[Lol-x]

If the model is slow selling it might be put away in the dealer's safe. I would say 7 years is a longer than one might expect but it is not beyond the realms of possibility.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by krieves

Two years ago I purchased a new Explorer II. I've been really happy with the watch. I recently was curious when the watch was made and when I looked up the serial number found it was made in 2003. Is it common for Rolex to take 7 years to make from the factory to sale? And does it effect the value of the watch?

Thanks for any insights!

Ken.

First all any internet code can tell is a approximate date when the case/clasp was stamped nothing more.Now these serials are not necessarily when any Rolex watch was made as many serials overlap, and the Explorer11 is not the fastest seller in the Rolex line up.So assuming your watch is a Fxxxxxx serial these started to appear in the market around Sept 2003 and ran way into March/April 2005 perhaps longer.

[Tools]

Originally Posted by krieves

Two years ago I purchased a new Explorer II. I've been really happy with the watch. I recently was curious when the watch was made and when I looked up the serial number found it was made in 2003. Is it common for Rolex to take 7 years to make from the factory to sale? And does it effect the value of the watch?

Thanks for any insights!

Ken.

As mentioned, you cannot really look at a chart and "know" that your watch was actually made on that shown date..

Charts are guesses made up for WIS and for research on an unknown watch, not to contradict and argue over a display case with. The date shown only represents when that serial was first seen in the marketplace or, in early models, when it was stamped..

It is extremely unlikely that 7 years elapsed from when the watch was made and when it was sold.. A couple of years is not unusual though; however, a watch does not get stale like a loaf of bread.. If it is new, it is new and when it was stamped or made, or what an Internet chart says, is really irrelevant..

[krieves]

Thanks for the info!

[Israguard]

Hi,
How do you look up / where if you have your watch's serial#?. I would like to do this just for fun. I bought mine less than a month ago from an AD in Zurich.. It will be curious to see what it shows on mine.

Thanks

[ralpie]

Originally Posted by Tools

As mentioned, you cannot really look at a chart and "know" that your watch was actually made on that shown date..

Charts are guesses made up for WIS and for research on an unknown watch, not to contradict and argue over a display case with. The date shown only represents when that serial was first seen in the marketplace or, in early models, when it was stamped..

It is extremely unlikely that 7 years elapsed from when the watch was made and when it was sold.. A couple of years is not unusual though; however, a watch does not get stale like a loaf of bread.. If it is new, it is new and when it was stamped or made, or what an Internet chart says, is really irrelevant..

I agree with most of this, but don't lubricants dry out over time?