First released in 1945 in honor of the British RAF following their efforts in WWII, the Air-King has become one of the longest-serving members of Rolex’s catalog, with its official debut as a standalone collection, as we know it today, tracing its origins a little bit more recently to 1958. Since then, the collection has become one of Rolex’s most unique collections, with its design and construction often used as a means to push aesthetic boundaries and experiment with design in a way that few other collections within the Rolex family could. As such, the Air-King collection has been found to sport a vast expanse of dial colors and set-ups, with different bezel configurations and a large variety of sizes. Offered here, we have the ref. 14010 with a white Buckley-style dial sporting applied hour markers above its black Roman numerals. Topped off with an engine-turned stainless steel bezel sitting atop a 34mm stainless steel case on an Oyster bracelet. Produced between the 1990s and into the early 2000s, this variant marks one of the last Air-King variants to be offered prior to the collection’s evolution into what we know it as today.

Boasting a dial that was only offered in the Air-King collection and a commemorative caseback, this example features something different from the typical Rolex in more ways than one.