More on the clasp code.

[Art 1]

This LV that I just picked up had just been shipped in from RUSA to a large AD. It's a V05 serial, we all no that that is not one of the latest serial no's being that it has a V0.

The clasp code is PJ9, that puts the clasp at Sept, 08.

What does this all mean? I don't really know off hand. Maybe what Rolex has been pointing to all along. They make parts, then put them all together at some point. This is a rather fast selling watch from a tourist mall that sells watches like this fast and it does not have the newest of numbers.

[Tools]

It doesn't really mean anything specific..

Lists and codes are just compiled lists by WIS with no input of confirmation from any corroborating source.. It has been known for quite a while that serials, although the prefix can be corralled, are still put in the marketing system in a more or less random fashion... and that several prefixes are produced simultaneously... (Like M and V)

These lists are meant to be used for research when you do not have any other information to go by. If you have a sales receipt, or other documents that are, in fact, proof - you don't need to look over a bunch of lists....

It will not make much sense to buy a watch new and with proof......then try to pigeon hole it into a list of guesses and estimates... It gives the false impression that the watch is not, somehow, new.

[Art 1]

Originally Posted by Tools

It doesn't really mean anything specific..

Lists and codes are just compiled lists by WIS with no input of confirmation from any corroborating source.. It has been known for quite a while that serials, although the prefix can be corralled, are still put in the marketing system in a more or less random fashion... and that several prefixes are produced simultaneously... (Like M and V)

These lists are meant to be used for research when you do not have any other information to go by. If you have a sales receipt, or other documents that are, in fact, proof - you don't need to look over a bunch of lists....

It will not make much sense to buy a watch new and with proof......then try to pigeon hole it into a list of guesses and estimates... It gives the false impression that the watch is not, somehow, new.

I agree. And it was kind of what I was getting at. Too much is put into this. The clasp codes especially. I once bought 2 A series watches in June of 2000. Both were just received , one with the new ladies movement and one of the first with the engraved coronet on the glass. The other with SEL and gold thru on the TT Sub, the first this AD had come in. Some lists have the A series stopping in '99 and here these new style watches came with A series late in the game.

[springer]

Well put Larry, I couldn't have said it better.