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In 2025, Rolex introduced the 126715CHNR-0002 Tiger Iron, a hardstone dial made from tiger’s eye, red jasper, and black hematite. The black-dial configuration continues as 126715CHNR-0001. The two part numbers are the catalogued branches documented here.

== Core facts ==

Alongside it in the current lineup sit the 126711CHNR, the steel [[Reference:126710BLRO|126710BLRO]] Pepsi, the steel [[Reference:126710BLNR|126710BLNR]] Batman, the two-tone yellow-gold [[Reference:126713GRNR|126713GRNR]] from 2023, and the solid yellow-gold [[Reference:126718GRNR|126718GRNR]]. The 126715CHNR remains the only solid Everose reference in the current line.

The reference launched at Baselworld 2018. Sotheby’s catalogued an early-production circa-2018 example in its 2020 watch sale, anchoring the launch year in the auction record. Production has run continuously since.

The 2025 Tiger Iron dial arrived at Watches & Wonders 2025 as part number 126715CHNR-0002. The standard black-dial 126715CHNR-0001 continues in parallel. The sources used here do not establish a separate production total for either branch.

Caliber 3285 powers the reference from launch. The same movement runs in the Rolesor 126711CHNR and across the 2018-onward GMT-Master II generation. Two changes define it against the earlier caliber 3186. The Chronergy escapement replaced the standard Swiss lever layout, and power reserve moved from 50 hours to 70. The Blue Parachrom hairspring carries over, and the 3285 sits inside the Superlative Chronometer specification with rate accuracy to -2/+2 seconds per day. The 2025 Tiger Iron variant carries the same caliber unchanged.

The 2025 Watches & Wonders variant uses a dial cut from tiger iron, a natural stone composite of tiger’s eye, red jasper, and black hematite. The stone’s banded structure gives each dial a different pattern. Case, bezel, movement, and bracelet carry over from the -0001 in the documented specification.

Tiger Iron extends Rolex’s use of hardstone dials into the GMT-Master II line. The cited launch coverage describes it as a new dial branch for this reference.

The Cerachrom bezel is shared with the 126711CHNR. The brown-and-black insert is a two-colour ceramic bezel with moulded Everose-coloured numerals and a solid Everose bezel ring. It is unchanged across the -0001 and -0002 variants.

The 2025 hardstone dial is the reference’s only production branch. The black-dial -0001 stays in the catalogue alongside it, and no case or movement revision has landed on either part number since 2018.

Sotheby’s 2020 watch sale catalogued an early-production circa-2018 Everose 126715 and described its connection to the 1970s Rootbeer GMTs. That lot anchors the launch-year auction record. The 2025 Tiger Iron branch is too new to have an established auction history in the sources used here.