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• Cartier Watch Serial Number Database

Paris sous la neige. Snow in Paris. Image by Blue Moon fromIn 1847, Louis-Francois Cartier took over the jewelry shop in Paris where he had been an apprentice to Adophe Picard. The Cartier brand slowly began to gain notice and in 1856, Princess Mathilde (a cousin to Napoleon) made her first purchase from the Cartier store. Cartier released the first jewelry watch in a bracelet style for women in 1888. Since that time, Cartier watches have remained a popular luxury item for both men and women.

Cartier Watch Serial Number Database

There are a few ways to identify the model of a Cartier watch. Look for two series of numbers on the back of the watch case.Find the four-digit number on the back of the watch case.

This is the model number. The eight-digit number with letters is the serial number. Both numbers are used to identify the Cartier model.Look up the model number in a reference book of Cartier watches, available at your local library, a bookstore or online. An example of such a book is 'Cartier–Watch Catalog.' You also can go to a website–such as Orbita or About Time–that lists Cartier model numbers or serial numbers to correctly identify the watch.

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 tablesThis page contains INSTRUCTIONS for using the serial number look-up tables that are found on many of our watch company history pages. The example below uses information from the American Waltham Watch Company, but that is just an example. 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.Not all vintage watches can be dated using the serial number.

Some American watch brands did not use a consistent series of serial numbers, but most of the big manufacturers did. Most vintage Swiss pocket watches did NOT have serial numbers and can't be dated by this method.

Can't find YOUR exact serial number in our lookup tables?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. That would make some really long pages! Our serial number tables list RANGES of serial numbers. So to determine when your watch was manufactured, you will need to find where your serial number fits within the range of numbers. Serial number look-up example:Let's say you have a Waltham watch with serial number 21,607,210 as shown in the photo below. Note that we're using the serial number from the watch movement, not from the watch case.

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). Since your serial number falls between those two numbers, you know that your watch was made in 1917 or 1918. Not sure which serial number to use?You must use the serial number from the MOVEMENT of the watch. The working part with the wheels and gears. Not the serial number from the watch case.

Cases and watches were often made by different companies and each usually has its own serial number. 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.Use the movement serial number. Do NOT use the case serial number!This is an example only. 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.

Not the serial number on the external case. EXAMPLE SERIAL NUMBER LOOK-UP: American Waltham Watch Company Approximate Serial Numbers and Production Dates YearS/N0,000188888888888888771,01,11,31,51,61,82,02,32,63,03,400,000YearS/N18883,84,24,75,25,86,36,77,17,48,18,49,09,510,211,112,113,514,314,715,516,417,617,918,118,218,919,520,020,520,921,822,523,423,924,124,300,000YearS/N192424,524,825,226,126,426,927,127,327,527,728,128,629,129,429,730,030,230,731,031,431,732,132,332,733,133,533,533,633,733,834,134,434,735,000,000.