Reference:14000: Difference between revisions

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| 1989–2000 per most editorial histories; some sources end 14000 production at 1999 with overlap into 2000; Revolution/Ross Povey instead dates the 5500-to-14000 changeover to 1990–1991

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== Production outline ==

Marcus Siems' Air-King family history, Erik Slaven at Monochrome (January 2025), Robb Report's Air-King guide (Allen Farmelo and Gareth Munden) and Watch-Wiki all give 1989 as the introduction year. The 14000 ships at Baselworld 1989 and the 5500 retires the same year — a clean cutover with no overlap production.

Marcus Siems' Air-King family history, Erik Slaven at Monochrome (January 2025), Robb Report's Air-King guide (Allen Farmelo and Gareth Munden) and Watch-Wiki all give 1989 as the introduction year. The 14000 ships at Baselworld 1989 and the 5500 retires the same year — a clean cutover with no overlap production. Ross Povey's Revolution Watch history reads differently: it keeps the 5500 in the catalogue until 1990 and dates the 14000's arrival to 1991, a year later than the rest of the record.

The end year is contested at the margin. Monochrome and Robb Report read 1999, with the 14000M succeeding in 2000; Watch-Wiki reads 2000. Both fit if 14000 assembly effectively ends in 1999 and 1999-built watches sell through into early 2000 alongside the new 14000M. 1989–1999 is the active production span, with 1999–2000 the late-stock window where the two references ran briefly in parallel.

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 == Production outline ==
-Marcus Siems' Air-King family history, Erik Slaven at Monochrome (January 2025), Robb Report's Air-King guide (Allen Farmelo and Gareth Munden) and Watch-Wiki all give 1989 as the introduction year. The 14000 ships at Baselworld 1989 and the 5500 retires the same year — a clean cutover with no overlap production.
+Marcus Siems' Air-King family history, Erik Slaven at Monochrome (January 2025), Robb Report's Air-King guide (Allen Farmelo and Gareth Munden) and Watch-Wiki all give 1989 as the introduction year. The 14000 ships at Baselworld 1989 and the 5500 retires the same year — a clean cutover with no overlap production. Ross Povey's Revolution Watch history reads differently: it keeps the 5500 in the catalogue until 1990 and dates the 14000's arrival to 1991, a year later than the rest of the record.
 The end year is contested at the margin. Monochrome and Robb Report read 1999, with the 14000M succeeding in 2000; Watch-Wiki reads 2000. Both fit if 14000 assembly effectively ends in 1999 and 1999-built watches sell through into early 2000 alongside the new 14000M. 1989–1999 is the active production span, with 1999–2000 the late-stock window where the two references ran briefly in parallel.