Reference:116710BLNR: Difference between revisions

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The 116710BLNR is the original Batman. Rolex launched it at Baselworld 2013 with a blue-and-black two-tone Cerachrom bezel, the first two-colour ceramic insert the brand had ever shipped. Case, movement, and bracelet came straight from the all-black [[Reference:116710LN|116710LN]] that had been in the catalogue since 2007; the bezel was the whole of the change. It was enough to make the Batman the most-discussed steel GMT-Master II of its generation, and the secondary-market run that followed still shapes how collectors read the reference.

Batman is a collector name, taken from the DC colour scheme, and it stuck ~~fast enough that the factory code is now the less familiar of the two~~. ~~That~~ code, BLNR, parses as bleu noir.

Batman is a collector name, taken from the DC colour scheme, and it stuck. Rolex's own code, BLNR, parses as bleu noir.

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== Production outline ==

Production runs from 2013 through 2019 ~~with no catalogued specification change across the six years~~. Fratello's Baselworld 2013 launch-day coverage records CHF 8,500 as the introduction price; period market figures put the reference at roughly EUR 7,250 at launch and around EUR 8,200 by the time Rolex retired it.

Production runs from 2013 through 2019. Fratello's Baselworld 2013 launch-day coverage records CHF 8,500 as the introduction price; period market figures put the reference at roughly EUR 7,250 at launch and around EUR 8,200 by the time Rolex retired it.

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 The 116710BLNR is the original Batman. Rolex launched it at Baselworld 2013 with a blue-and-black two-tone Cerachrom bezel, the first two-colour ceramic insert the brand had ever shipped. Case, movement, and bracelet came straight from the all-black [[Reference:116710LN|116710LN]] that had been in the catalogue since 2007; the bezel was the whole of the change. It was enough to make the Batman the most-discussed steel GMT-Master II of its generation, and the secondary-market run that followed still shapes how collectors read the reference.
-Batman is a collector name, taken from the DC colour scheme, and it stuck fast enough that the factory code is now the less familiar of the two. That code, BLNR, parses as bleu noir.
+Batman is a collector name, taken from the DC colour scheme, and it stuck. Rolex's own code, BLNR, parses as bleu noir.
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 == Production outline ==
-Production runs from 2013 through 2019 with no catalogued specification change across the six years. Fratello's Baselworld 2013 launch-day coverage records CHF 8,500 as the introduction price; period market figures put the reference at roughly EUR 7,250 at launch and around EUR 8,200 by the time Rolex retired it.
+Production runs from 2013 through 2019. Fratello's Baselworld 2013 launch-day coverage records CHF 8,500 as the introduction price; period market figures put the reference at roughly EUR 7,250 at launch and around EUR 8,200 by the time Rolex retired it.
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