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I would love to get a little help from you people with a long-standing knowledge of Omegas regarding the following issue:

Just recently got my 2561.80 Bond-watch at the local jewelry store. Back home, I went thru the paperwork and was surprised to find the serial number ending with ...007. My first thought was: "Oh well, it's a marketing method from Omega, issuing serial numbers ending with 007 on all those watches to enhance the Bond-connection...".

Then I read zOwies chapter regarding serial numbers and it became clear that my watch might be somewhat unusual, since all serial number are made up of 8 digits. [It would be limiting for Omega to have all Bond-watches ending with ...007, since the first five digits would only be able to serialize a production of 99999 watches. Plus many of the 007-slots must have been taken long before the Bond watch was introduced, rendering this theory impossible.]

After that little math-quiz session, I sent and e-mail to Omega in Switzerland [following zOwies recommendations on how to get info from Omega regarding my watch.]

I swiftly received the following intriguing response from a person in the Omega Product Development Department in Switzerland:

"... You have an incredible chance to own a James Bond model with the serial number ending with 007 !!

One of one-thousand non-chronometer (quartz movements as well as all not chronometer certified mechanical movements) watches end with 007 - but it can be a Constellation, a Seamaster, a Speedmaster, a De Ville .... "

Here my Question for you guys: What is the chance of owning a Bond-watch with a serial number ending with ...007?

To do the math, I guess we need to take into consideration a couple of things:

* The Total Production of the watches mentioned above, during the time-period the Bond-watch has been in production.
* The Percentage of Bond-watches out of the Total Production.

If someone of you out there have an idea what those numbers might be, I would be very happy to hear from you!

Then there are other things that can not be accounted for when trying to come up with the probability of owning a ...007:

* I have a feeling people within the chain of supply, from manufacturing and out to the dealerships, have an interest of getting their hands on a Bond watch with this kind of serial number. This would very quickly eliminate the number of ...007s of available for us - the final consumers.

* Also, God forbid, how many ...007s have been lost to grey-market serial number removal ?

P.S. If you do own a Bond watch with serial number ...007, please let me know. Would be fun knowing that I am not the only one!

OK. I am off to rent Bond-movies featuring the watch. I don't wanna be caught not having seen them while discussing those Bond-related issues...