RSC Service Question

[Sunstreaker]

When you send a watch in to RSC for service that has a random serial number, do they tell you the year of the watch on the paperwork that eventually comes back?

I'm trying to find out how to definitively date a watch that is random. It's fairly easy to find a year range based on clasp and dial variations throughout the years but am not able to nail down a specific year.

Surely their internal databases track that sort of thing, right?

[Tools]

No, they don't tell you.

Serial numbers have never changed by "model year". You don't really know when a watch was made, even the charts on the Internet are guesses, not absolute.

[SS Oyster]

It’s on your papers that came with the watch when purchased new. Absent those, you cannot tell. Of course Rolex knows, but they do not disclose.


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[Sunstreaker]

It's fascinating (and a little shady) that they won't disclose that to you. It's like buying a car and not being told the year lol.