Date on exterior box

[Deliberate1]

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Friends, I just took possession of a new S007. I noticed that the exterior box had a date in February of this year and am curious as to its significance. It is on the same label with bar code information, article number, etc.

Thanks

David

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[pico]

Friends, I just took possession of a new S007. I noticed that the exterior box had a date in February of this year and am curious as to its significance. It is on the same label with bar code information, article number, etc.

Thanks

David

 

If you have a capable phone it can read bar codes and QR codes.

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[Deliberate1]

If you have a capable phone it can read bar codes and QR codes.

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Understood. But my interest is the significance of the printed date on the box.

[earleygallery]

Best before date. Does it smell off?

[frame-it]

Friends, I just took possession of a new S007. I noticed that the exterior box had a date in February of this year and am curious as to its significance. It is on the same label with bar code information, article number, etc.

Thanks

David

probably the date it was packed ?

[Deliberate1]

Best before date. Does it smell off?

Only my work product.

[Deliberate1]

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probably the date it was packed ?

Fair enough. Basically, I am wondering if the date has any relationship to the date of manufacture.

[frame-it]

probably not...but did you see the QC card in the box ? that should have the date of the Quality control check..that's possibly closer to the date of manufacture

 

 

Fair enough. Basically, I am wondering if the date has any relationship to the date of manufacture.

[Deliberate1]

probably not...but did you see the QC card in the box ? that should have the date of the Quality control check..that's possibly closer to the date of manufacture

Good thought. Will check.

[earleygallery]

Serious answer, I'm sure this was discussed before - someone noticed their new TL lens had a date on the box from several years prior. I understand that it is simply the date the goods were packaged - pretty much the same as manufactured date or more accurately product assembly date (bearing in mind that the components could be manufactured some time prior).

 

Some items, like TL lenses mentioned above, are made in batches. Hence why a new lens may have been packaged several years ago and sat in the warehouse or dealers shelves since. A new batch will be scheduled when stocks are predicted to be running out.

[Deliberate1]

I understand that it is simply the date the goods were packaged - pretty much the same as manufactured date or more accurately product assembly date (bearing in mind that the components could be manufactured some time prior).

 

 

If that is the case, and it makes sense that it is, then Leica was still making S 007 bodies in February of this year.

[Photon42]

If that is the case, and it makes sense that it is, then Leica was still making S 007 bodies in February of this year.

 

 

I probably has been manufactured secretly more than five years back 

 

Congratulations on the James Bond Edition!

[Deliberate1]

I probably has been manufactured secretly more than five years back 

 

Congratulations on the James Bond Edition!

Strange, but my Q seems quite agitated ever since I introduced it to my 007. M seems unaffected, if not aloof. My IIIc remains clueless.

 

David

[Deliberate1]

probably not...but did you see the QC card in the box ? that should have the date of the Quality control check..that's possibly closer to the date of manufacture

 

Good call. Same date on box and QC card. Looks like the camera was made in February of this year. Would be interesting to know how close to the end of the model run this one is.