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Total production output is not published by Rolex for any Prince reference. The 1343 surfaces less frequently at major auction than the 1490 Brancard but more frequently than the 1527 Railway or the 3361 Aerodynamic. The Mondani Collection Antiquorum sale (14 May 2006, lot 794) is the canonical primary catalogue and the highest-watermark Antiquorum lot in the documented record at hammer CHF 10,620 against estimate CHF 10,000–14,000.

The suffix system matters. Catalogue text across Bonhams, Antiquorum, Heritage, and Gardiner Houlgate documents three variants: 1343 (no suffix, typically silver examples), 1343A (standard production across multiple metals), and 1343B (the 18K two-colour gold "Tiger Stripe" variant). No source explicitly explains the suffix mapping, but the pattern parallels the 971 / 971A relationship and the 1343A as the dominant standard with 1343B as the special two-colour configuration is consistent across surfaced examples.

The suffix system matters. Catalogue text across Bonhams, Antiquorum, Heritage, and Gardiner Houlgate documents three variants: 1343 (no suffix, typically silver examples), 1343A (standard production across multiple metals), and 1343B (the 18K two-colour gold "Tiger Stripe" variant). No source explicitly explains the suffix mapping, but the pattern parallels the 971 / 971A relationship and the 1343A as the dominant standard with 1343B as the special two-colour configuration is consistent across surfaced examples. Two lots — Christie's Geneva, 15 November 2000, lot 338, and Antiquorum Geneva, 13 November 1999, lot 243 — catalogue a 1343A with a flared, stepped-side case running 42–43 mm long, matching the 1490 Brancard's own case envelope rather than the 20 mm-wide unflared Classic body every other documented 1343/1343A lot shares, including Antiquorum's own 2006 Mondani lot, also labelled 1343A, at the standard 20 mm width. The likelier read is a recurring reference-number mix-up with the 1490 family rather than a genuine flared 1343 sub-variant, but no source resolves it definitively.

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 Total production output is not published by Rolex for any Prince reference. The 1343 surfaces less frequently at major auction than the 1490 Brancard but more frequently than the 1527 Railway or the 3361 Aerodynamic. The Mondani Collection Antiquorum sale (14 May 2006, lot 794) is the canonical primary catalogue and the highest-watermark Antiquorum lot in the documented record at hammer CHF 10,620 against estimate CHF 10,000–14,000.
-The suffix system matters. Catalogue text across Bonhams, Antiquorum, Heritage, and Gardiner Houlgate documents three variants: 1343 (no suffix, typically silver examples), 1343A (standard production across multiple metals), and 1343B (the 18K two-colour gold "Tiger Stripe" variant). No source explicitly explains the suffix mapping, but the pattern parallels the 971 / 971A relationship and the 1343A as the dominant standard with 1343B as the special two-colour configuration is consistent across surfaced examples.
+The suffix system matters. Catalogue text across Bonhams, Antiquorum, Heritage, and Gardiner Houlgate documents three variants: 1343 (no suffix, typically silver examples), 1343A (standard production across multiple metals), and 1343B (the 18K two-colour gold "Tiger Stripe" variant). No source explicitly explains the suffix mapping, but the pattern parallels the 971 / 971A relationship and the 1343A as the dominant standard with 1343B as the special two-colour configuration is consistent across surfaced examples. Two lots — Christie's Geneva, 15 November 2000, lot 338, and Antiquorum Geneva, 13 November 1999, lot 243 — catalogue a 1343A with a flared, stepped-side case running 42–43 mm long, matching the 1490 Brancard's own case envelope rather than the 20 mm-wide unflared Classic body every other documented 1343/1343A lot shares, including Antiquorum's own 2006 Mondani lot, also labelled 1343A, at the standard 20 mm width. The likelier read is a recurring reference-number mix-up with the 1490 family rather than a genuine flared 1343 sub-variant, but no source resolves it definitively.
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