Reference:14000M: Difference between revisions
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Add reference-specific sourcing: Sothebys Domino's Pizza lot (Mar 2023) and blue-dial Buy Now listing, Wind Vintage Winn-Dixie corporate branch and black-dial listing; corroborate 31-jewel Cal 3130 reading, note F-serial example |
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The Tom Monaghan Domino's Pizza Rolex incentive program carried on from the 14000 era directly into the 14000M. Sotheby's catalogued one in its Fine Watches sale of March 2023, a Schlanderer & Sons-retailed example. Documented pieces wear the "tilted" full-color logo at six o'clock, the late-program variant and the same configuration Cameron Barr records on the 14000's second-generation Domino's dial. The 14000M Domino's runs into the early-to-mid 2000s before the program winds down. Sotheby's own lot description for that example gives a silvered dial, case number D'433'720, movement number 3 0'787'896, and an estimate of EUR 3,000–5,000; the watch sold with its Rolex guarantee, instruction manual and travel pouch but no box. | The Tom Monaghan Domino's Pizza Rolex incentive program carried on from the 14000 era directly into the 14000M. Sotheby's catalogued one in its Fine Watches sale of March 2023, a Schlanderer & Sons-retailed example. Documented pieces wear the "tilted" full-color logo at six o'clock, the late-program variant and the same configuration Cameron Barr records on the 14000's second-generation Domino's dial. The 14000M Domino's runs into the early-to-mid 2000s before the program winds down. Sotheby's own lot description for that example gives a silvered dial, case number D'433'720, movement number 3 0'787'896, and an estimate of EUR 3,000–5,000; the watch sold with its Rolex guarantee, instruction manual and travel pouch but no box. | ||
[[File:Ref 14000M crown.webp|thumb|right|260px|alt=Rolex 14000M Domino's Pizza case flank showing the screw-down Twinlock crown|Case flank of the same Sotheby's Domino's Pizza 14000M, showing the screw-down Twinlock crown]] | |||
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A second documented corporate-incentive branch, distinct from the Domino's program: Winn-Dixie, the US supermarket chain, issued 14000Ms to delivery drivers who completed ten years without an on-the-job accident. Eric Wind at Wind Vintage catalogued one such example, a Z-serial piece dating to circa 2006–2007 with the "Winn-Dixie" stamp developing patina in the lower half of the dial, sold unpolished and without box or papers. | A second documented corporate-incentive branch, distinct from the Domino's program: Winn-Dixie, the US supermarket chain, issued 14000Ms to delivery drivers who completed ten years without an on-the-job accident. Eric Wind at Wind Vintage catalogued one such example, a Z-serial piece dating to circa 2006–2007 with the "Winn-Dixie" stamp developing patina in the lower half of the dial, sold unpolished and without box or papers. | ||
[[File:Ref 14000M winn-dixie.webp|thumb|right|260px|alt=Rolex Air-King 14000M Winn-Dixie 10 Year Safe Driver dial|Rolex Air-King 14000M "Winn-Dixie 10 Year Safe Driver" corporate dial, Z-serial, circa 2006-2007]] | |||
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