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Old 25 December 2008, 02:49 AM   #14
XJGPN
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Originally Posted by videobob View Post
ROLEX Serial Numbers by Date of Manufacture.
I have 2 questions about this. I'm finding two conflicting Rolex Serial #/Year charts. One is the one you show, the other is this:

http://www.suissewatchservice.com/rolex-serial.html

Which I have also seen in several places. They don't match up. Why is that?

Also, the one you quote has a very weird hole between 1948-1951 and I haven't been able to find out why that is. Not only does it not have date/serial number correlations, but the production numbers seem off. From 1948-1951 (3 years) there were 81,936 Rolex’s made, but from 1947-1948 (1 year) there were 99,677 Rolex’s made. Is it just me or does that seem fishy? It would make sense if I heard about them changing factories or something weird happened in that period that stopped production for a while, but I don't see any mention of it anywhere. Please advise.
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