The watch was 'made' in January of 2009. However, that is not a concrete date. Essentially all you can surmise is that the caseback itself was made on that date. At that point, the caseback itself could have sat for awile before it was grabbed off the shelf to be used on a complete watch.

The majority of Seiko watches come with solid metal casebacks (stainless steel, solid gold, gold plated or titanium) and the serial numbers are also stamped in a straight line. Pictured above is a the caseback of an SKX007K Seiko dive watch. Reading numbers off solid metal casebacks is pretty straightforward. You are mostly correct but try to date a current Seiko Monster. I put My BM serial number 610695 manufacture date Jan. 2006 and it came up on his calculator Jan. The newer watches will be 10 years off. We all know that the Monster was not manufactured in 1996.

GS sales are low. I'm sure that the watch is straight from the factory. They are not being pumped out daily or even weekly and I suspect that many models are made in batches and then sit until supply indicates that more need to be made. Enjoy your new GS!

In my previous on how to date your Seiko watch, I mentioned the nifty Jayhawk’s Production Date Calculator. In most cases it should return the correct date of manufacture. However, there are circumstances in which the calculator may give you inconclusive or erroneous results. Or no results at all.

When that happens, I would resort to what I call “dead reckoning” or rough estimation. Dead reckoning is similar to navigating your way at sea by orientating yourself with the heavenly objects like the sun, moon and the stars. You won’t be accounting for wind conditions and at best your estimate may be a few miles off your actual position. That’s when a GPS unit comes in handy! 😉 Manually estimating the production date of a Seiko involves the element of. What is anachronism? Basically, it is the utilization of an event, a person, an object, language in a time when that event, person or object was not in existence.

In other words, an anachronism is something that occurs out of its proper time. The chronological error of an anachronism can occur in either direction; it can result from something from the past being represented as if it belonged in the present, like an archaism, or it can result from presenting something at a time before it actually appeared, occurred, or existed.

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And anachronism is the key to manually estimating the production date of your Seiko watch. An example would be saying that a digital LCD watch was produced back in 1964 or claiming that old Kinetic watch in your drawer was purchased in 1983. Or an eBay seller proclaiming a vintage Seiko 7T59 quartz chronograph as a brand new model from 2003. In actuality, digital watches were only commercially available in the middle of the 1970s. Seiko Kinetics, originally branded as “Auto Quartz” and “A.G.S” (Automatic Generation System) only appeared at the end of the 1980s. As for the prized and short-lived, rare 7T59 chronograph models, they were only made between 1991 and 1993.