- #Vintage movado watch identification how to#
- #Vintage movado watch identification serial numbers#
- #Vintage movado watch identification serial number#
#Vintage movado watch identification serial number#
Your movement serial number may not be in exactly the same location as the one in the photo, but you are looking for the serial number that is on the watch mechanism itself. You usually have to take the back off the watch case to see the movement serial number which may appear anywhere on the watch movement. Cases and watches were often made by different companies and each usually has its own serial number. not the serial number from the watch case. the working part with the wheels and gears. You must use the serial number from the MOVEMENT of the watch. Since your serial number falls between those two numbers, you know that your watch was made in 1917 or 1918.
#Vintage movado watch identification serial numbers#
Looking at the table of Waltham serial numbers (see example below), you can see that number 20,900,000 was made in 1917 and 21,800,000 was made in 1918 (marked in red in the table below). Note that we're using the serial number from the watch movement, not from the watch case. Let's say you have a Waltham watch with serial number 21,607,210 as shown in the photo below. So to determine when your watch was manufactured, you will need to find where your serial number fits within the range of numbers. that would make some really long pages! Our serial number tables list RANGES of serial numbers. Many watch companies made hundreds of thousands of watches, and some companies made millions of watches! It would be impractical to list the individual serial numbers of EVERY watch made. Can't find YOUR exact serial number in our lookup tables? Most vintage Swiss pocket watches did NOT have serial numbers and can't be dated by this method. Some American watch brands did not use a consistent series of serial numbers, but most of the big manufacturers did. Not all vintage watches can be dated using the serial number. You should consult the serial number table for the specific brand of watch movement you are trying to date by selecting a company from the menu on the left. The example below uses information from the American Waltham Watch Company, but that is just an example. This page contains INSTRUCTIONS for using the serial number look-up tables that are found on many of our watch company history pages.
#Vintage movado watch identification how to#
I also found this post from 2002 posted here on the forums which might help you figure the numbers.Determine the Age of your Vintage Pocket Watch How to Use our Vintage Watch Serial Number & Date Lookup Tables Instructions for using our serial number look-up tables
This is the same case design as Winston Churchill's watch. The calibre 475 complicated calendar movement was manufactured by Movado from 1938 to 1954. Apologies if I am breaching forum rules.ġ940's Movado Triple-Date calendar watch with Breguet arabics dial and fancy "turtle" lugs, snapback case with calendar push buttons at 2:00 and 4:00, ribbed sides and fancy extended "turtle" lugs (42mm lug to lug), signed 15 jewel complicated calendar movement (calibre 475), outer date chapter ring, center day and month apertures, gold dagger hands, sweep seconds and arrow-tipped sweep date hand. Details below are not my words but a sample from the other site. I am not sure if I am allowed post the link, but I will give some of the info from it.
Don't know anything about watches, just a total beginner, but I have found one of these for sale, ( can't help it I love googling ).
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