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<small>[[Reference:air-king|Air-King]] › '''14010M'''</small> | <small>[[Reference:air-king|Air-King]] › '''14010M'''</small> | ||
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[[File:Ref 14010M hero.webp|thumb|center|640px|alt=Rolex Air-King 14010M, 2001, glossy black Luminova dial reading PRECISION|Rolex Air-King 14010M, 2001, glossy black Luminova dial reading PRECISION]] | |||
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The 14010M is the engine-turned-bezel Air-King of the Cal. 3130 generation, running beside the smooth-bezel [[Reference:14000M|14000M]] exactly as the [[Reference:14010|14010]] ran beside the 14000 before it. The M suffix marks a movement change and nothing else. Rolex swapped Cal. 3000 for Cal. 3130 at the turn of the millennium and appended the letter to both Air-King reference numbers, leaving the 34mm steel case, the sapphire crystal, the Twinlock crown, the smooth rehaut and the 78350 Oyster bracelet where they were. | The 14010M is the engine-turned-bezel Air-King of the Cal. 3130 generation, running beside the smooth-bezel [[Reference:14000M|14000M]] exactly as the [[Reference:14010|14010]] ran beside the 14000 before it. The M suffix marks a movement change and nothing else. Rolex swapped Cal. 3000 for Cal. 3130 at the turn of the millennium and appended the letter to both Air-King reference numbers, leaving the 34mm steel case, the sapphire crystal, the Twinlock crown, the smooth rehaut and the 78350 Oyster bracelet where they were. | ||
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That makes the 14010M the last engine-turned Air-King without a chronometer rating. Its dial reads PRECISION, the same word every Air-King had carried since the Cal. 1520 5500s, and the 114210 that replaces it in 2007 is the first of the decorative-bezel references to say SUPERLATIVE CHRONOMETER OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED. Six years of production separate the two, and the dial text is the fastest way to tell them apart. | That makes the 14010M the last engine-turned Air-King without a chronometer rating. Its dial reads PRECISION, the same word every Air-King had carried since the Cal. 1520 5500s, and the 114210 that replaces it in 2007 is the first of the decorative-bezel references to say SUPERLATIVE CHRONOMETER OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED. Six years of production separate the two, and the dial text is the fastest way to tell them apart. | ||
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