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	<small>[[Reference:air-king\|Air-King]] -> '''14000'''</small>		<small>[[Reference:air-king\|Air-King]] › '''14000'''</small>

	The 14000 is the Air-King's first sapphire-crystal reference, an eleven-year run from 1989 to 2000 that bridges the long-serving 5500 (Cal. 1530, then 1520) and the Cal. 3130 generation that follows on the 14000M and 114200. The 34mm steel Oyster envelope carries over from the 5500 unchanged. Everything else moves: sapphire in place of acrylic, Cal. 3000 in place of Cal. 1520, non-drilled lugs in place of drilled, and a dial catalogue wider than any earlier Air-King generation ran. Salmon, 3-6-9 Explorer, Roman numeral, Arabic numeral, blue, white, matte black, silvered stick — the 5500 never offered anything close.		The 14000 is the Air-King's first sapphire-crystal reference, an eleven-year run from 1989 to 2000 that bridges the long-serving 5500 (Cal. 1530, then 1520) and the Cal. 3130 generation that follows on the 14000M and 114200. The 34mm steel Oyster envelope carries over from the 5500 unchanged. Everything else moves: sapphire in place of acrylic, Cal. 3000 in place of Cal. 1520, non-drilled lugs in place of drilled, and a dial catalogue wider than any earlier Air-King generation ran. Salmon, 3-6-9 Explorer, Roman numeral, Arabic numeral, blue, white, matte black, silvered stick — the 5500 never offered anything close.
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Admin: Fact fix: attribute disputed 14000 launch year (1989 vs Revolution/Povey 1991) per hard rule 6

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Fact fix: attribute disputed 14000 launch year (1989 vs Revolution/Povey 1991) per hard rule 6

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	== Production outline ==		== Production outline ==

	Marcus Siems' Air-King family history, Erik Slaven at Monochrome (January 2025), Robb Report's Air-King guide (Allen Farmelo and Gareth Munden) and Watch-Wiki all give 1989 as the introduction year. The 14000 ships at Baselworld 1989 and the 5500 retires the same year — a clean cutover with no overlap production.		Marcus Siems' Air-King family history, Erik Slaven at Monochrome (January 2025), Robb Report's Air-King guide (Allen Farmelo and Gareth Munden) and Watch-Wiki all give 1989 as the introduction year. The 14000 ships at Baselworld 1989 and the 5500 retires the same year — a clean cutover with no overlap production. Ross Povey's Revolution Watch history reads differently: it keeps the 5500 in the catalogue until 1990 and dates the 14000's arrival to 1991, a year later than the rest of the record.

	The end year is contested at the margin. Monochrome and Robb Report read 1999, with the 14000M succeeding in 2000; Watch-Wiki reads 2000. Both fit if 14000 assembly effectively ends in 1999 and 1999-built watches sell through into early 2000 alongside the new 14000M. 1989–1999 is the active production span, with 1999–2000 the late-stock window where the two references ran briefly in parallel.		The end year is contested at the margin. Monochrome and Robb Report read 1999, with the 14000M succeeding in 2000; Watch-Wiki reads 2000. Both fit if 14000 assembly effectively ends in 1999 and 1999-built watches sell through into early 2000 alongside the new 14000M. 1989–1999 is the active production span, with 1999–2000 the late-stock window where the two references ran briefly in parallel.

Admin: Fact fix: the 14010 is steel, not a gold/two-tone variant (per daughter-page cross-check, op-e research)

2026-08-10T21:27:16Z

Fact fix: the 14010 is steel, not a gold/two-tone variant (per daughter-page cross-check, op-e research)

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	== Case and construction ==		== Case and construction ==

	34mm across, 11.2mm thick, 43mm lug to lug: a three-piece stainless steel Oyster of case middle, threaded caseback and threaded crown. Every 14000 is steel. No precious-metal example surfaces in the auction record~~, and the two-tone and gold-capped Air-Kings of the era carry their own reference numbers — the~~ 14010 engine-turned-bezel sibling, ~~and~~ the 14238 / 14239 18K gold variants.		34mm across, 11.2mm thick, 43mm lug to lug: a three-piece stainless steel Oyster of case middle, threaded caseback and threaded crown. Every 14000 is steel. No precious-metal example surfaces in the auction record. The 14010 engine-turned-bezel sibling is steel, not gold or two-tone; the 14238 / 14239 references are the era's documented 18K gold variants.

	The crystal is sapphire, the first on an Air-King, and it puts the reference on the modern Rolex standard the rest of the Oyster sport line had already adopted by the late 1980s. The bezel is fixed, smooth steel; the engine-turned version belongs to the 14010, not to the 14000 itself.		The crystal is sapphire, the first on an Air-King, and it puts the reference on the modern Rolex standard the rest of the Oyster sport line had already adopted by the late 1980s. The bezel is fixed, smooth steel; the engine-turned version belongs to the 14010, not to the 14000 itself.

Admin: Fact fix: Domino's program continued onto the 114200 — Christie's sale 21040 lot 136 (Air King per Domino's Pizza, ref 114200, case 96A51575); 14000 is not the last Domino's Air-King

2026-08-08T22:29:07Z

Fact fix: Domino's program continued onto the 114200 — Christie's sale 21040 lot 136 (Air King per Domino's Pizza, ref 114200, case 96A51575); 14000 is not the last Domino's Air-King

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	The Tom Monaghan Domino's Pizza Rolex incentive program ran straight from the 5500 era into the 14000. Cameron Barr's journal piece of 29 July 2022 records a 1996 14000 with a "tilted" full-color logo at six o'clock, the second-generation Domino's dial and distinct from the earlier 5500-era logo-on-its-side arrangement. Late-program Domino's 14000s drop the logo entirely, leaving only the "Domino's" signature near six alongside Luminova and SWISS MADE text.		The Tom Monaghan Domino's Pizza Rolex incentive program ran straight from the 5500 era into the 14000. Cameron Barr's journal piece of 29 July 2022 records a 1996 14000 with a "tilted" full-color logo at six o'clock, the second-generation Domino's dial and distinct from the earlier 5500-era logo-on-its-side arrangement. Late-program Domino's 14000s drop the logo entirely, leaving only the "Domino's" signature near six alongside Luminova and SWISS MADE text.

	The 14000 Domino's program ~~represents~~ the ~~last Rolex corporate-gift commission~~ on the Air-King ~~line~~. ~~The 14000M and 114200 successors were not~~ Domino's-~~era references;~~ the program ~~wound down by the late 1990s before Rolex's catalogue moved past the 14000~~.		The Domino's commission outlives the 14000. Christie's sale 21040, lot 136 documents a Domino's-dial 114200 with case number 96A51575, which carries the program past the 14000 and into the 2007 reference; on the documented record the [[Reference:114200\|114200]], not the 14000, is the last Air-King to wear a Domino's dial. No Domino's 14000M has surfaced. What the 14000 marks is the second-generation dial rather than the end of the program.

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	The dial restoration question is light on the 14000 versus the 4925 / 5500 — the 14000 is recent enough that most surviving examples have not been through the 1980s–2000s dial restoration window. Original dials are the norm rather than the exception. A 14000 with a perfectly clean original dial is plausible rather than suspect.		The dial restoration question is light on the 14000 versus the 4925 / 5500 — the 14000 is recent enough that most surviving examples have not been through the 1980s–2000s dial restoration window. Original dials are the norm rather than the exception. A 14000 with a perfectly clean original dial is plausible rather than suspect.


			== Related references ==

			* [[Reference:4365\|Air-King 4365]]
			* [[Reference:4499\|Air-King 4499]]
			* [[Reference:4925\|Air-King 4925]]
			* [[Reference:5500\|Air-King 5500]] — 34mm Oyster (1957–1989)
			* [[Reference:5501\|Air-King 5501]]
			* [[Reference:5502\|Air-King 5502]]

			See also the [[Reference:air-king\|Air-King family index]], [[Reference:Movements\|movement reference]], [[Reference:Bracelets\|bracelet & clasp guide]], and [[Reference:Serial-numbers\|serial numbers by year]].

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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