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The 2940 trades primarily through specialist dealer inventory and the secondary auction market rather than at major Geneva houses. Phillips and Heritage have handled examples; Sotheby’s and Christie’s have occasionally included 2940s in mid-tier vintage lots; Antiquorum and Bonhams have listed them in catalog sales. The bulk of market activity happens through vintage Rolex specialist dealers, forum-adjacent private sales, and platforms like Chrono24 and 1stDibs. Price discovery is accordingly uneven, and a given configuration can trade at widely varying prices depending on venue and market conditions.

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~~== Still open ==~~

~~Several questions about the 2940 remain unresolved in the current collector literature.~~

~~=== Total production ===~~

No public source documents 2940 production totals. The serial-range inference from ~200,000 to ~690,000 covers a ~490,000-unit span, but serial numbers in this period were not reference-specific. They covered the entire Rolex production of the year, so the actual 2940 share of that range is not documented.

~~=== 1940–1941 production ===~~

The earliest surfaced 2940 serials run in the low 200,000s, consistent with 1942 production. Whether any 2940s were produced before 1942 in non-trivial volume, or whether the reference was introduced on paper in 1940 but not pushed to volume production until 1942, is not documented.

~~=== Hooded-lug authenticity ===~~

The collector consensus is that hooded-lug 2940s are aftermarket modifications. A single rigorously authenticated hooded 2940 (with period-correct stamping, consistent lug geometry, and provenance from a dealer or auction house whose authentication standards are accepted in the specialist community) would revise this position. None has surfaced in the indexed record.

~~=== Caliber grade variation ===~~

Some 2940s are documented with 17-jewel movements, others with 18 jewels. Whether this reflects original production grade differences, service-era movement variants, or documentation inconsistency across sources is not established.

~~=== Dial configuration totals ===~~

The dial catalog (sector, California, Arabic radium, two-tone, salmon, black, 24-hour military, silvered, champagne, dealer-signed) is well-attested across surviving examples, but no public source documents relative production volumes. The rarity claims in the collector literature (“salmon is rare,” “24-hour military is very rare”) are inferred from auction and dealer frequency rather than documented against production records.

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 The 2940 trades primarily through specialist dealer inventory and the secondary auction market rather than at major Geneva houses. Phillips and Heritage have handled examples; Sotheby’s and Christie’s have occasionally included 2940s in mid-tier vintage lots; Antiquorum and Bonhams have listed them in catalog sales. The bulk of market activity happens through vintage Rolex specialist dealers, forum-adjacent private sales, and platforms like Chrono24 and 1stDibs. Price discovery is accordingly uneven, and a given configuration can trade at widely varying prices depending on venue and market conditions.
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-== Still open ==
-Several questions about the 2940 remain unresolved in the current collector literature.
-=== Total production ===
-No public source documents 2940 production totals. The serial-range inference from ~200,000 to ~690,000 covers a ~490,000-unit span, but serial numbers in this period were not reference-specific. They covered the entire Rolex production of the year, so the actual 2940 share of that range is not documented.
-=== 1940–1941 production ===
-The earliest surfaced 2940 serials run in the low 200,000s, consistent with 1942 production. Whether any 2940s were produced before 1942 in non-trivial volume, or whether the reference was introduced on paper in 1940 but not pushed to volume production until 1942, is not documented.
-=== Hooded-lug authenticity ===
-The collector consensus is that hooded-lug 2940s are aftermarket modifications. A single rigorously authenticated hooded 2940 (with period-correct stamping, consistent lug geometry, and provenance from a dealer or auction house whose authentication standards are accepted in the specialist community) would revise this position. None has surfaced in the indexed record.
-=== Caliber grade variation ===
-Some 2940s are documented with 17-jewel movements, others with 18 jewels. Whether this reflects original production grade differences, service-era movement variants, or documentation inconsistency across sources is not established.
-=== Dial configuration totals ===
-The dial catalog (sector, California, Arabic radium, two-tone, salmon, black, 24-hour military, silvered, champagne, dealer-signed) is well-attested across surviving examples, but no public source documents relative production volumes. The rarity claims in the collector literature (“salmon is rare,” “24-hour military is very rare”) are inferred from auction and dealer frequency rather than documented against production records.
 == Sources ==