Date Your Seiko Watch

Have you ever wondered what year your Seiko watch was manufactured? Often knowing the date of a watch is important to understand its history and provenance, or perhaps you want to know if a watch is a birth year watch, or maybe you’re just curious? In any case, lets date your Seiko watch using the EmmyWatch Seiko Serial Number Lookup.

In order to date your Seiko watch accurately, you will need a few pieces of information from your watch. This information can be found on the watch caseback (flip your watch over and look at the back).

Seiko watches can generally be dated to a month and a year. Seiko serial numbers only include a single digit for the year of manufacture (2 for 1972, 5 for 1985, etc), and thus it is only possible to date a Seiko watch to a decade with the serial number alone. In order to more accurately date a Seiko watch we can also use the movement number because movements were generally only manufactured in a specific decade. For this reason our Seiko Serial Number Lookup uses both the Seiko serial number and the Seiko movement number when dating a Seiko watch.

So how do you find these numbers? Proceed to the next section to learn how to find these numbers.