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[[File:Ref 116400 hero.webp|thumb|right|360px|alt=Rolex Milgauss 116400GV Z-Blue — electric-blue zirconium-sunburst lacquer under the Glace Verte sapphire crystal, the only colored crystal Rolex has ever produced. Image via Monochrome.|Rolex Milgauss 116400GV Z-Blue — electric-blue zirconium-sunburst lacquer under the Glace Verte sapphire crystal, the only colored crystal Rolex has ever produced. Image via Monochrome.]]


The 116400 is the Milgauss revival. Rolex unveiled it at Baselworld March 2007, nineteen years after the 1019 production end and at the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 6541 catalog launch. The brief inverts the 1019's: where the 1019 stripped the 6541's signatures for a dress-coded antimagnetic Oyster, the 116400 revives the lightning-bolt seconds hand and adds the green sapphire crystal that only the Milgauss line has ever worn. Four sub-references run across sixteen years — two with clear sapphire crystals (white dial 116400-0002 and black dial 116400-0001) and two with the Glace Verte green-tinted sapphire (Z-Black 116400GV-0001 and the 2014 Z-Blue 116400GV-0002). The line ends at Watches & Wonders Geneva 2023 with the 116400GV discontinuation. Rolex has not announced a Milgauss successor.
The 116400 is the Milgauss revival. Rolex unveiled it at Baselworld March 2007, nineteen years after the 1019 production end and at the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 6541 catalog launch. The brief inverts the 1019's: where the 1019 stripped the 6541's signatures for a dress-coded antimagnetic Oyster, the 116400 revives the lightning-bolt seconds hand and adds the green sapphire crystal that only the Milgauss line has ever worn. Four sub-references run across sixteen years — two with clear sapphire crystals (white dial 116400-0002 and black dial 116400-0001) and two with the Glace Verte green-tinted sapphire (Z-Black 116400GV-0001 and the 2014 Z-Blue 116400GV-0002). The line ends at Watches & Wonders Geneva 2023 with the 116400GV discontinuation. Rolex has not announced a Milgauss successor.
[[File:Ref 116400 hero.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Rolex Milgauss 116400GV Z-Blue — electric-blue zirconium-sunburst lacquer under the Glace Verte sapphire crystal, the only colored crystal Rolex has ever produced. Image via Monochrome.|Rolex Milgauss 116400GV Z-Blue — electric-blue zirconium-sunburst lacquer under the Glace Verte sapphire crystal, the only colored crystal Rolex has ever produced. Image via Monochrome.]]


==Core facts==
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