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Its number does more work than its bezel. Rolex stamped 1002 inside the casebacks of steel cases across the family, the Air-King [[Reference:5500|5500]] included, so the mark turns up on watches whose dials and bezels have nothing to do with this reference. Houses have catalogued 1002-cased watches as Air-Kings, as Explorers, and once, on a caliber 620 pink-gold watch that cannot be a 1002 at all, as a Bubbleback. The 5500 Explorer is the one steel sibling that mostly escapes this: it typically carries its own 5500-stamped caseback rather than the shared 1002 stamping, though documented exceptions exist on early examples from before about 1970. Reading a 1002 starts with understanding that the number identifies a case rather than a watch. | Its number does more work than its bezel. Rolex stamped 1002 inside the casebacks of steel cases across the family, the Air-King [[Reference:5500|5500]] included, so the mark turns up on watches whose dials and bezels have nothing to do with this reference. Houses have catalogued 1002-cased watches as Air-Kings, as Explorers, and once, on a caliber 620 pink-gold watch that cannot be a 1002 at all, as a Bubbleback. The 5500 Explorer is the one steel sibling that mostly escapes this: it typically carries its own 5500-stamped caseback rather than the shared 1002 stamping, though documented exceptions exist on early examples from before about 1970. Reading a 1002 starts with understanding that the number identifies a case rather than a watch. | ||
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File:Ref 1002 gold.webp|Black gloss dial with applied brushed gilt batons on an 18k gold 1002, circa 1968, on its 7205 gold rivet bracelet | |||
File:Ref 1002 explorer dial.webp|Black 3-6-9 dial with Mercedes hands in a 34mm case catalogued as a 1002; unsold at Bonhams in 2020 and again in 2021 | |||
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No 4-digit Oyster Perpetual carries as many documented dials as the 1002, which follows from the length of the run and the number of markets it was sold into. The pattern across the record is straightforward: steel cases take silvered, white, grey and blue dials, gold cases take champagne, gilt and gloss black, and the special dials are corporate, retailer or regional commissions rather than factory catalogue options. | No 4-digit Oyster Perpetual carries as many documented dials as the 1002, which follows from the length of the run and the number of markets it was sold into. The pattern across the record is straightforward: steel cases take silvered, white, grey and blue dials, gold cases take champagne, gilt and gloss black, and the special dials are corporate, retailer or regional commissions rather than factory catalogue options. | ||