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Can anybody enlighten me when they changed to 39mm. Also, more importantly, did Rolex ever use 904L steel on the later 36mm watches? Thanks
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Last edited by stefmcd; 2nd April 2018 at 19:56.
I think that the 36mm 114270 was changed to the 39mm 214270 in 2010.
Unless someone corrects me, all 114270s were 904L.
+1, that's my belief. I think the last ones were made around 2010-2012.Originally Posted by JP Chestnut
Paul
I purchased a V serial number 114270 in Dec 2009 in Malaysia.
I was told then it was one of the last available of 36mm version (but I'm sure this was before the 39mm one was available).
904L definitely - I was told this at the time by the AD (and you can just tell by looking at it).
Sorry, you can`t tell just by looking at it unless you've literally got x-ray eyes.
I`ve repolished many watches, including my own Rolex cases, and I`m very hard-pressed to see a difference. Putting two similarly polished samples side by side would be the only way I`d pick out a very small difference, but to look at a watch in isolation?........no chance!
Paul
A Rolex brochure from the time states that 904l was used in 36mm Explorer.
https://www.scribd.com/document/3390...II-E-Brochures
Mines a V serial - 2009.. believe this was the last run before the switch to 39mm?
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