Submariner booklets date code

[zen123]

Thinking of buying a Submariner, the watch is a 2006 Z serial but the warranty card & original purchase receipt is dated 2009. It has everything except the booklets. As they are easily obtainable my question is would it have come with the manuals and booklets dated 2006 or 2009?

[padi56]

Originally Posted by zen123

Thinking of buying a Submariner, the watch is a 2006 Z serial but the warranty card & original purchase receipt is dated 2009. It has everything except the booklets. As they are easily obtainable my question is would it have come with the manuals and booklets dated 2006 or 2009?

Lets get things perfectly straight first no internet chart can give a exact date when any Rolex was made only a approx date between X&Y years when the case was stamped.Now Z serials ran from 2006 well into 2007 possibly longer.As for the manuals they are made in several parts of the world so if you must have then any manual will do in that time frame as they are not exact date pacific. Its just a paper watch manual and in the real world not all that important the watch is the most important.All things like boxes manuals are just shipped separate to the various ADs around the world so you get what basically the AD has on his shelf at point of sale.

[Old Expat Beast]

Originally Posted by zen123

Thinking of buying a Submariner, the watch is a 2006 Z serial but the warranty card & original purchase receipt is dated 2009. It has everything except the booklets. As they are easily obtainable my question is would it have come with the manuals and booklets dated 2006 or 2009?

Booklets would have been dated 2009 or a year or two before. They don't leave the factory with the watch. The AD gets them seperately in batches.

[tomallen]

If you are searching for booklets The language and the address are important also. A watch from Rolex USA booklets should have the N.Y. address and other countries should have a Swiss address. This is just an observation.

[77T]

As others have said, it could be any of 3 different dates - and you should seek a version that comports with the CC that is printed on the warranty card.

Had the watch carried a 2007 sales date on the card, you certainly wouldn’t want booklets dated 2008-2009.

But if you consider the salestron situation at the AD, they grab the collateral out of their back room to make up the delivery package s was it hour regard to markings on booklets other than the correct model name.

So in your case, a 2009 booklet (presuming it really matters) would be exactly what a salestron would have grabbed.

PS: what are the codes on the box?


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[peterpl]

Booklets and boxes are cheap! You can find full sub box sets and books for circa $200.

If the watch is what you want dont worry about the books.

[904VT]

Originally Posted by zen123

Thinking of buying a Submariner, the watch is a 2006 Z serial but the warranty card & original purchase receipt is dated 2009. It has everything except the booklets. As they are easily obtainable my question is would it have come with the manuals and booklets dated 2006 or 2009?

I guess my question would be why does it matter if you have the watch? Features would be the same and instructions consistent. You get the books, hang tags and all etc. based on when the watch was purchased, not when the watch made it to the AD originally. Typically all those things are sorted and stored separately and you will get a package at time of purchase. The only time you would get a non-current manual is if you purchase NOS at time of sale. Not much different than all the red tags, moving to green tags for existing stock in Summer 2015.

[zen123]

Originally Posted by 904VT

I guess my question would be why does it matter if you have the watch? Features would be the same and instructions consistent. You get the books, hang tags and all etc. based on when the watch was purchased, not when the watch made it to the AD originally. Typically all those things are sorted and stored separately and you will get a package at time of purchase. The only time you would get a non-current manual is if you purchase NOS at time of sale. Not much different than all the red tags, moving to green tags for existing stock in Summer 2015.

As almost everything is there I'd just like get the books to finish it off.

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[zen123]

Originally Posted by 77T

As others have said, it could be any of 3 different dates - and you should seek a version that comports with the CC that is printed on the warranty card.

Had the watch carried a 2007 sales date on the card, you certainly wouldn’t want booklets dated 2008-2009.

But if you consider the salestron situation at the AD, they grab the collateral out of their back room to make up the delivery package s was it hour regard to markings on booklets other than the correct model name.

So in your case, a 2009 booklet (presuming it really matters) would be exactly what a salestron would have grabbed.

PS: what are the codes on the box?


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The box code is 30.00.01

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[904VT]

Originally Posted by zen123

As almost everything is there I'd just like get the books to finish it off.

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Gotcha. Should be books from year of purchase If you want a set as it would’ve been from an AD. In my experience the only time they would differ is if NOS of a discontinued model. Not dial, but model change such as 16610ln to 116610ln

[Polarexplorerii]

Originally Posted by Old Expat Beast

Booklets would have been dated 2009 or a year or two before. They don't leave the factory with the watch. The AD gets them seperately in batches.

that’s what I have heard also