Reference:114200: Difference between revisions

|title=Rolex 114200 Air-King — First COSC-Certified Air-King, Cal 3130 | Rolexopedia

|description=The 114200 is the first chronometer-rated Air-King — 2007 to 2014, 34mm steel Oyster, Cal 3130 with Parachrom hairspring. Engraved rehaut, concentric "wave" dial palette in multiple colors, Domino's Pizza 114200 documented at Christie's. Closes the 34mm Air-King chapter before the 116900 redesign.

== Core facts ==

| yes — first COSC-certified Air-King; dial reads "SUPERLATIVE CHRONOMETER OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED"

| 116900 (2016, 40mm pilot redesign — outside pre-2020 collector window for many editorial frames)

A few secondary outlets stretch the run "until 2016," which conflates the discontinuation with the line's return on a different reference. The primary editorial — Monochrome, Siems, Robb Report — consistently gives 2014 as the production end. 2007–2014 is the active span.

Rolex's own archived catalogue offers a likely explanation for the 2007–2020 reading some specialist sources give. The bare reference number 114200 does not disappear from rolex.com after 2014 — it stays live on the official site through August 2020, then drops out entirely by September 2020, the same week Rolex replaced the standard Oyster Perpetual line's 116000, 114300 and 176200/177200 with 126000, 124300 and 277200. That later run of 114200 carries plain "OYSTER PERPETUAL" dial text rather than "AIR-KING" — Rolex appears to have reassigned the reference number to the Oyster Perpetual 34 once the Air-King name moved off it in 2014, rather than continuing Air-King production to 2020. A source reading '2007–2020' is most plausibly tracking that reused catalogue number rather than a continuous Air-King run. This article's 2007–2014 Air-King figure stands; the 2014–2020 continuation is a different watch under the same number and is not covered here.

Every 114200 is steel. No precious-metal example surfaces in the auction record, and the gold-trimmed Air-Kings of the 2007–2014 window carry their own reference numbers — the 114234 white-gold-bezel sibling, and the gem-set sub-variants that sit outside this reference entirely.

No other Air-King ran a dial catalogue this wide. The concentric "wave" pattern arrives with the reference and combines with a color range the 14000 era never had — silver, black, blue, green, salmon, white, champagne — across applied stick markers, 3-6-9 Explorer Arabics, full Roman numerals and full Arabics, with the outer ring finished sunburst soleil, brushed or matte. Documented configurations run into double figures. White and champagne dials appear in the editorial record but reach the market far less often than the silver, black and blue concentrics.

The 114200 dial collectors actually chase. Sunburst blue outer ring, circular concentric inner section, applied orange Arabic numerals at every hour and no luminous fill at all — the orange against blue does the legibility work on its own. It goes by "Air-King concentric blue" or simply "the blue 114200," and it trades at a substantial premium to the standard configurations.

The Explorer layout the 5500 made famous and the 14000 carried over continues here: Arabic numerals at three, six and nine with batons or sticks elsewhere, on a black or silvered ground that may be concentric or flat. Erik Slaven at Monochrome calls it "a standard arrangement" on the 114200 — a catalogue option rather than a rarity.

The 114200 is the last documented Domino's Air-King reference — the program wound down in the early 2010s, before Rolex moved past the 114200 in 2014. Examples surface less often than the 5500 and 14000 Domino's pieces.

* [[Reference:5500|Air-King 5500]] — 34mm Oyster (1957–1989)

* ''The Vintage Rolex Field Manual'' — Colin A. White, Morning Tundra

* [https://revolutionwatch.com/the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king/ Ross Povey, "The King is Dead Long Live The King — Air-King transition 14000-116900 Ross Povey Revolution", Revolution Watch, 2020]