Pilot M90 Nib Serial Number?

[professionaldilettante]

Hello M90 Owners,

I was wondering, what are your serial numbers for the Pilot M90? I have three in fine, and they all have the number 1208 stamped on it. I am assuming that it means that the nib was made in December of 2008. Am I correct? The pen was released in 2008, so I would hazard a guess that my pens were the last few batches to roll off of the production line? or has Pilot been making more, stretching the production of supposedly 9000 over a year or more?

[AltecGreen]

Hello M90 Owners,

I was wondering, what are your serial numbers for the Pilot M90? I have three in fine, and they all have the number 1208 stamped on it. I am assuming that it means that the nib was made in December of 2008. Am I correct? The pen was released in 2008, so I would hazard a guess that my pens were the last few batches to roll off of the production line? or has Pilot been making more, stretching the production of supposedly 9000 over a year or more?

 

 

You are correct. The '1208' is the date code for Dec. 2008. Pilot has been marking their nibs like this for quite a while. I think this scheme goes back to the 60's.

 

A lot of people look for MYUs with a code that matches their birthday.

[Yuki Onitsura]

I also have a 1208 stamp on mine. =)

 

Yuki

[talkinghead]

A lot of people look for MYUs with a code that matches their birthday.

 

 

Alot of us though will never find one that matches our birthday...when did they start making these??? 1971?

 

 

M90 M ground to a cursive italic...lovely

 

Rick

[AltecGreen]

Alot of us though will never find one that matches our birthday...when did they start making these??? 1971?

 

 

But it doesn't stop people from looking. :ltcapd:

[Yuki Onitsura]

A lot of people look for MYUs with a code that matches their birthday.

 

 

Alot of us though will never find one that matches our birthday...when did they start making these??? 1971?

 

 

M90 M ground to a cursive italic...lovely

 

Rick

 

I suppose if you were desperate enough, you could have the date buffed out and have your birthdate engraved in. Of course, when you try to sell the pen (not that anybody would ever want to) it's going to look awfully suss.

 

Yuki

[markc]

Both of mine say 809

 

... Ground down to cursive italic... hmmm.. /me gives a certain nibmeister a call ...