Serial No. look-up for dating your watches.

[River Rat]

Here are some site's I found that you can use to date some of your vintage watches.
Elgin
http://elginwatches.org/databases/index.html
Waltham
http://www.nawcc-info.org/WalthamDB/LookupSN.asp
Seiko
http://uaf13892.ddns.uark.edu/jgauch/photos/seiko.html

[force_quit]

Thanks! I was able to get my great-grandfathers Elgin at Christmas. It doesn't run and needs a bunch of work. The serial number says it was made in 1887.

[BSears]

Here's one for Hamilton Pocket watches. Doesn't seem complete but it might help.

http://www.antique-pocket-watch.com/ham ... erial.html

[mrsnak]

Here's one for Tissot (Got myself a nice a 70s Seastar last month). Mine has a the Lemania 1271 in it, and I have heard that Tissot often kept the Lemania numbers (which don't correspond to the Tissot)

[mrsnak]

Here's one for Rolex:

http://www.watches.co.uk/watches/inform ... l-numbers/

[River Rat]

Here another I found for dating.
Hamilton
Hampden
Rockford
South Bend
http://www.nawcc-ch149.com/pw_dbresearch.html

[moishlashen]

I love numbers.

[theoilrigger]

Bulova starts from 1950 w/ the letter L and the #'ed year

so its L M N ect...

[FlyPenFly]

Wish there was one for post 2000 IWC.

[noah]

http://uaf13892.ddns.uark.edu/jgauch/photos/seiko.html

[River Rat]

http://uaf13892.ddns.uark.edu/jgauch/photos/seiko.html

Thanks Noah I had the old link above that was a dead link changed it to the right one.