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Explorer Reference 114270 2000s Black Dial 36mm Watch

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Here's a Rolex Explorer reference number 114270 automatic with a black glossy dial on oyster bracelet from the mid 2000s Keeps great time and is fully functional. Measurements include a 36mm oyster case and 20mm lug width. It's on a Rolex oyster bracelet that fits up to a 7.5 inch wrist (Time only. Clean black dial. Steel case and caseback. No holes case. “Swiss Made” at 6 a clock. Matching hands and hour markers (Mercedes hands). Both the dial and crystal are free from any scratches or marks. All parts are original including the signed Rolex crown, dial, movement, and caseback. Both the dial and case are in great cosmetic, untouched condition.





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History

In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest wearing Rolex watches. The Explorer — launched that same year — was Rolex's acknowledgment that the Oyster case could go anywhere. Clean dial, no complications, just luminous Arabic numerals at 3, 6, and 9 on a matte black background. Function as design.

The Explorer II followed in 1971 for a different kind of explorer: speleologists and scientists working in environments where day and night lose meaning. A fixed 24-hour graduated bezel and an additional orange GMT hand allowed cave explorers and polar researchers to track whether it was AM or PM when daylight was unavailable.

References 14270 and 114270 (Explorer I, 36mm) and 16570 (Explorer II, 40mm) in our inventory cover the 1990s through mid-2000s — the most mature and reliable expressions of both watches before they were resized in subsequent generations.