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You could be right...

I've spent lots of time building databases and it would be no problem to associate certain number with a process. They wouldn't have to change the way numbers are assigned at all. However this would require giving there worldwide support staff access to that database. Much easier to just have the symbol on the watch.

Also Omega is an old company...In my experience old company's tend to have their heads in their butts as far as IT and many other thing. Old company wide systems take time and money to update and if things are working ok companys will put it off.

: If the stamping (laser etching..whatever) of a
: little globe on SOME watches is some sort of
: attempt to fight fakes, it's a very lame
: one. Omega is far too sophisticated to
: combat THAT problem with a tiny globe.

: Omega's chief competition is other fine watch
: brands, not the fakers. Most fakes are
: bought by people trying to fool OTHERS. Only
: very fine, relatively uncommon fakes are
: made to fool the BUYER.

: Why do it on some rather than ALL? Lack of an
: answer to this makes the "stop
: fakes" hypothesis weak.

: If some of the fakers are good enough to put
: laser-etched serials numbers on the lug, how
: difficult could it be to put a
: less-detailed, larger emblem in an
: easier-to-work area (the outer region of the
: back)?

: The star and globe are serving the same
: purpose.

: I work with gas turbines (jet engines used to
: run electric power plants) and quality
: assurance procedures regarding their
: production and operational history.
: Nowadays, we do the same kind of thing on
: turbine blades. We use various codes
: "built in" to the serial numbers
: that tell all sorts of casting and tooling
: history. Databases can be built to do
: anything in this regard.

: In the past (before lots of computer power was
: cheap), we would individually mark the
: serial number of test blades with an extra
: character that would act as a
: "flag". Only a few people within
: the company would be knowledgeable about
: what this means.

: Omega could do the same thing (get rid of all
: globes/stars), but undoing their serial
: number process (case s/n = movement s/n,
: dealing with COSC etc.) to accomodate a
: SHORT TERM research project may be cost
: ineffective.

: This is why I speculate that the globe and star
: serve the same purpose, to flag the watch as
: having some small part/process difference
: that is only meaningful to QA/QC people at
: Omega.