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Fact: drop 'ceramic-era' descriptor — the Explorer I line (114270, 214270) uses a smooth polished steel bezel and no ceramic component; no sibling page makes the claim |
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The 14270 is the first sapphire-era Explorer, the bridge between the long-running [[Reference:1016|1016]] it replaced and the modern | The 14270 is the first sapphire-era Explorer, the bridge between the long-running [[Reference:1016|1016]] it replaced and the modern 114270 / 214270 line that followed. Rolex built it from 1989 to 2001 in a 36mm Oyster case rated to 100m, with caliber 3000 inside and applied white-gold-surround indices on a glossy black lacquer ground. The silhouette never moved across those twelve years. What collectors track instead is dial text, lume compound and one mid-run change to the case — the reason the run splits into five documented dial generations, the first of them the Blackout. | ||
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