Dating a 39mm Explorer advice

[holden12]

I am looking to buy a 39mm Explorer from my son's birth year (2011). I am looking for the watch itself to have been made in 2011, even if the papers do not reflect this, i.e. 2012 papers. With the advent of random serials, are bracelet numbers the best way to date the watch itself to 2011?

Many thanks.

[bonbonson]

Not sure about bracelets but the serial numbers unless g serial would be untraceable

[busytimmy]

I would say go easy, don't come on too strong and make sure you drop her home afterwards.

[holden12]

Hahaaaa!

[jshepard]

Originally Posted by busytimmy

I would say go easy, don't come on too strong and make sure you drop her home afterwards.

Haha! Exactly what I thought when I was browsing through threads! I don't know why I would think anyone would write a topic that absurd but I've seen some funny topics on here before...

As for the serious topic, it's kind of tough with the random serial numbers. If you find one with papers (which shouldn't be hard, 2011 wasn't too long ago.) it might show a date of purchase. But even then it could've been sitting at an AD since 2010. Maybe you can look around for one purchase at the end of 2011? I don't really know how long it takes from date of manufacture to AD displays... Sorry,I couldn't be more of help. Anyway, good luck!

[padi56]

Originally Posted by holden12

I am looking to buy a 39mm Explorer from my son's birth year (2011). I am looking for the watch itself to have been made in 2011, even if the papers do not reflect this, i.e. 2012 papers. With the advent of random serials, are bracelet numbers the best way to date the watch itself to 2011?

Many thanks.

At the moment we have G serials single letter 6 numbers, plus the so called random serials total of 8 digits.Now with all the Internet codes including the clasp codes we can get a appox year when case/clasp was stamped.Now this don't always mean when the watch was made,so what we can surmise is the G serials plus the randoms there cases/clasps were stamped sometime between the latter part of 2010 till present time.You cannot track 100% exactly to the day,week, month, or exact year when the watch was made.And the year date is when ever the watch was first sold from say any AD thats as near as you can get it, so a G serial could be newer made than a random or visa versa.