Short Serial Number
This Master Control has a lightly etched 4 digit Serial Number, not the uasual 7 digit engraved number. The watch is genuine...its been serviced by Jaeger and has been C\onrfirmed on the Jaeger website. Anyone know why a watch might get this style number?...
It is the production number. You find it on several other JLC watches.
Here, the Master Compressor Memovox, steel. ...
Why the Short Number?
Do we know why some watches were given the 4 digit Ethed number while most others got the 7 Digit engraved SN? Maybe a production problem caused some to be shunted aside?
Up though the '90s and early 2000s...
JLC ran each design in series of pieces produced. After Jerome took over and more heavily promoted the brand, it was more desirable for the brand to keep production numbers secret (for at least a decade or more). Consequently, watches began to have differ...