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<small>[[Reference:submariner|Submariner]] › '''6204'''</small> | <small>[[Reference:submariner|Submariner]] › '''6204'''</small> | ||
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The 6204 is the first Submariner. Rolex had built dive-capable Oyster cases before, but the 6204 is the first reference number to carry the Submariner name, and the starting point of a line that runs through every Submariner made since. Nicholas Foulkes's ''Oyster Perpetual Submariner: The Watch That Unlocked the Deep'' (Wallpaper / ACC Art Books, 2024) records 2,881 examples produced across 1953 and 1954 — small enough that surviving examples are tracked individually by collectors, and the dial variants get parsed at single-digit confirmed-example resolution. | The 6204 is the first Submariner. Rolex had built dive-capable Oyster cases before, but the 6204 is the first reference number to carry the Submariner name, and the starting point of a line that runs through every Submariner made since. Nicholas Foulkes's ''Oyster Perpetual Submariner: The Watch That Unlocked the Deep'' (Wallpaper / ACC Art Books, 2024) records 2,881 examples produced across 1953 and 1954 — small enough that surviving examples are tracked individually by collectors, and the dial variants get parsed at single-digit confirmed-example resolution. | ||