The watch here is made in 1976, July.įollow Vintage Citizen Watches on WordPress. By putting all the information together a Vintage Citizen Watch can be, this way, dated. The next two digits are 07 so the month is the seventh one – July.ĥ. Watch Serial Number- as mentioned before, we often assume the model is a. We know this model was not made so late as 1986 so it is made in 1976.Ĥ. Movement as watch model number- sometimes the movement number is marked on the watch. Certain models and movements indicate a specific time frame so it is easy to identify the exact year. We look at the model and at the movement. After we identified the serial and the possible year we go deeper. So we can narrow it down to 1976 or 1986. The “water resistant” marking illustrates the fact that the watch was made after ’72-’73 because prior to this the term used was “parawater”. In the example below the first digit is 6 so it can be only a year ending in 6 such as 1956, 1966, 1976 or 1986.Ģ. The first digit is an indication of the year. Those 8 digits show the year and the month. Most of the time over there we have a lot of information regarding the case model, the watch model, the material and, very important in dating one, the serial number. First of all, we turn the watch over and look at the caseback. Well… it is a combination of different clues:ġ. And guess what, for Citizen you can go even further! You can date it by month also! It is always nice to find a watch that was made the very same year you were born. One of the advantages of collecting Vintage Citizen Watches is the fact that most of them can be easily dated.
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