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=== "No Commando" plain dial (military-channel) === | === "No Commando" plain dial (military-channel) === | ||
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File:Ref 6429 no-commando.webp|alt=Rolex 6429 No Commando variant|The "No Commando" variant — plain ROLEX OYSTER dial, sold through U.S. military base exchanges | |||
File:Ref 6429 no-commando-dial-detail.webp|alt=Rolex 6429 No Commando dial detail|Dial detail showing the squared-off baton hands used in place of the Mercedes hand | |||
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The same dial layout with the "COMMANDO" line dropped — the dial reads simply "ROLEX OYSTER." Rolex sold this plainer version through U.S. military base exchanges concurrently with Abercrombie & Fitch's civilian Commando. Hodinkee's account frames the missing text as giving the watch "a bit more of a stealthy appearance"; Christie's cataloguing of a documented example independently confirms the military-exchange channel and adds the ROW export stamp as a physical marker of the US-market run. | The same dial layout with the "COMMANDO" line dropped — the dial reads simply "ROLEX OYSTER." Rolex sold this plainer version through U.S. military base exchanges concurrently with Abercrombie & Fitch's civilian Commando. Hodinkee's account frames the missing text as giving the watch "a bit more of a stealthy appearance"; Christie's cataloguing of a documented example independently confirms the military-exchange channel and adds the ROW export stamp as a physical marker of the US-market run. | ||