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=== The Jubilee return ===
=== The Jubilee return ===


The Jubilee bracelet had not been a production option on the GMT-Master II Professional line since the 1675 generation. Period-fitted Jubilee bracelets on 1675 watches are a collector signature of 1960s-1970s Rolex, but the 16750, 16700, and the entire 116710 generation shipped on Oyster only. The 2018 [[Reference:126710BLRO|126710BLRO]] Pepsi broke that run. Jubilee became the steel GMT-Master II launch bracelet for the first time in roughly four decades, and the 2019 [[Reference:126710BLNR|126710BLNR]] Jubilee extended the choice to the Batman.
Jubilee had been absent from the GMT-Master II Professional line since the 1675 era. The 2018 steel Pepsi brought it back, and the 2019 Batman extended the same choice to the blue-black watch. That bracelet return is one of the defining shifts of the 6-digit family.


The community named the Jubilee-bracelet 126710BLNR “Batgirl” in 2019. When Rolex reintroduced an Oyster option on the same reference in 2021, the split held: Batman stayed the Oyster-bracelet configuration, Batgirl stayed the Jubilee. Sotheby’s adopted the Batgirl name in cataloguing by 2020.
The community named the Jubilee-bracelet 126710BLNR “Batgirl” in 2019. When Rolex reintroduced an Oyster option on the same reference in 2021, the split held: Batman stayed the Oyster-bracelet configuration, Batgirl stayed the Jubilee. Sotheby’s adopted the Batgirl name in cataloguing by 2020.
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The 6-digit generation extended the two-colour ceramic catalogue. The 5-digit ceramic era had shipped two combinations — blue-and-black on the 2013 [[Reference:116710BLNR|116710BLNR]], red-and-blue on the 2014 [[Reference:116719BLRO|116719BLRO]]. The 6-digit family added three more.
The 6-digit generation extended the two-colour ceramic catalogue. The 5-digit ceramic era had shipped two combinations — blue-and-black on the 2013 [[Reference:116710BLNR|116710BLNR]], red-and-blue on the 2014 [[Reference:116719BLRO|116719BLRO]]. The 6-digit family added three more.


The brown-and-black CHNR insert on the 2018 Rootbeer pair was the first two-colour Cerachrom after BLNR and BLRO. The 24-hour numerals are moulded into the ceramic in Everose gold, Rolex’s patented platinum-fortified pink-gold alloy, which replaces the yellow gold of the earlier Rootbeer era. Fratello nicknamed the colourway “Cough Syrup” for reading colder than the Coca-Cola-brown of the vintage Rootbeers. Monochrome, Time+Tide, and Robb Report treat the black-dial-with-Everose-accents as a modern interpretation rather than a compromise.
The 2018 CHNR Root Beer pair was the first two-colour Cerachrom after BLNR and BLRO. Its brown-and-black insert and Everose numerals give the old Root Beer idea a colder, more modern look than the vintage yellow-gold versions.


The green-and-black VTNR insert on the 2022 [[Reference:126720VTNR|126720VTNR]] added the fourth colour pair. The green reads as a colour-history callback to the 2007 Fiftieth Anniversary green bezel announcement on the [[Reference:116710LN|116710LN]]. The combination is exclusive to the Destro.
The green-and-black VTNR insert on the 2022 [[Reference:126720VTNR|126720VTNR]] added the fourth colour pair. The green reads as a colour-history callback to the 2007 Fiftieth Anniversary green bezel announcement on the [[Reference:116710LN|116710LN]]. The combination is exclusive to the Destro.
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