The 21 jewel 4006-7019 would have to come next, 7 digit serial number (pre 1968) and very few seen, but they do come up for sale. Then the 1966 Dec - Jan 1967 Diashock dial without the dolphin case back These have the Diashock 27 jewel on the dial and the dolphin case back and the notched case for the alarm button. In rarity the Nov 1966 dolphin case back 4006 is extremely rare, I know of only 5 and have been collecting serial numbers and info on these for 10 years now. Be very careful buying these as they are often rebuilt frankens. There is a rarer 4006 that has only 21 Jewels that was made for the American market. The two base models are the 4006 (day, date) and the 4005 (date only), the 4006 comes in 17 and 27 Jewel varieties the 4005 27 jewel only. The main issue with BellMatics is that you can swap dials, rotating rings between models so there are lots of franken Bells out there. Models ending in 9 are the US Market versions.Models ending in 4 or 6 appear to be SGP - so the successive thing seems to be for the 0's to 1's to 2's - stopping there.It would appear that models ending in 1 and 2 are successive, replacing the prior - for instance the 4006-7000 seems to have been replaced by the 4006-7001 and then the 4006-7002 - so I don't think those are regional variants.I have already uncovered more sub-model numbers than documented in that (excellent) article - in BLUE in the google doc for now.At this point, I think my approach is going to be to work through each model in isolation - and try and pull out the original combinations - based on what looks like most common - first into a Google Doc (here: /document/d/1yHcU-A-EWiivGl8HU3W3cT0lxOweii5bJxBLn8aZvc/edit?usp=sharing) - perhaps eventually a website or some articles.ĭiscoveries after spending 10 minutes with the data: I dropped these in a folder and wrote a quite bit of code to organize the data - this is early days - not optimized (lots of large images etc) - but here it is: This list is likely to grow quickly as I find time. To kick things off, I've spent the last few days starting a collection of sales images. Based on image data, information already available online, and feedback here, I hope to be able to build a list of valid watch combinations - including case (ss or sgp) with matching dial, hands and bezel combinations + bracelets (when possible).įirst a big thank you to the following write-up - this really got things rolling: At this point my ambition is to sort out a list (with photos) of the valid watches, by model number. Of the first two, I already have a taste of the reckless mess of parts these can be. I suppose it was inevitable, but I don't know if I will have the energy to take these quite as far as I took the world timers.Īs some of you probably saw, I have received a couple Bell-matics, with many more in the mail.
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