v serials

[jonmough7]

i have a modest collection of lower end high end watches if that makes any sense. MY FORMER LOVE OF A WATCH HUBLOT a few older big bang 44's, a brm 3mvt 52n, verachron constantine chrono, x2 movado valors (1 rectangle, 1 round), panerai luminor auto, breitling chronomat, recently acquired rolex day date, and a scatered few various assundry others. 22 in total i think the number is now. im a watch freak! i guess im at the point where im paying more attention to more than just the looks and the names.

i have recently come across a term of which i am unfamilliar; "v serials".
i assume it has something to do with serial numbers or a way of certifying a watch's authenticity, but ive searched the net and keep coming up with vague answers or no real answers at all.

anyone care to help?

just looking to learn a few things. ive always been to impatient to stand at the dealer and listen to instruction. now im paying the price. i dont even know how to do anything except set the watches i have. lol.

[77T]

Welcome to TRF. More about Serial #'s at: http://www.minus4plus6.com/numbers.htm

The Serial number only gave you a very general idea of when a watch case was made by Rolex - and by that you could infer when the entire watch was assembled and released by the factory. Not really an authenticity item except when well known numbers that are re-used repeatedly by forgers.

I say "gave you" because now Rolex uses a scrambled set of digits in a random sequence since 2010-ish.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by jonmough7

i have a modest collection of lower end high end watches if that makes any sense. MY FORMER LOVE OF A WATCH HUBLOT a few older big bang 44's, a brm 3mvt 52n, verachron constantine chrono, x2 movado valors (1 rectangle, 1 round), panerai luminor auto, breitling chronomat, recently acquired rolex day date, and a scatered few various assundry others. 22 in total i think the number is now. im a watch freak! i guess im at the point where im paying more attention to more than just the looks and the names.

i have recently come across a term of which i am unfamilliar; "v serials".
i assume it has something to do with serial numbers or a way of certifying a watch's authenticity, but ive searched the net and keep coming up with vague answers or no real answers at all.

anyone care to help?

just looking to learn a few things. ive always been to impatient to stand at the dealer and listen to instruction. now im paying the price. i dont even know how to do anything except set the watches i have. lol.

Please do not get too hung up on case serials all we can assume from any case serial is a approximation when the Rolex case was stamped.Now this do not always mean when the watch was made,now V serials were first reported as being seen at the ADs around August 2008 and were still running well into 2010.There has been nothing officially released on any serial dating from Rolex all the Internet codes are all based on information gathered from the various forums etc.And a V serial is just like the millions upon millions of other Rolex serials.Now Rolex started the single letter plus 6 numbers in 1987 before that they were just numbers.And because Rolex produced so many millions of watches over the years they just ran out of single letter number combinations around 2010.So they introduced what is now called the random system which is now a combination of letters numbers but now a total of 8 digits instead of 7.But at the moment we have still V,G, and Random at the ADs and what we can assume from this the case of these watches were stamped from 2008 till present time.

https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=8478

[Urosfan]

I just purchased my subc recently and its a v serial. My AD had it only a short period of time before i purchased it.