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ROLEX YACHT-MASTER REFERENCE NUMBERS

Rolex Yacht-Master reference numbers

  • 16622: Automatic Rolex cal. 3135 movement, Quickset, scratch-resistant sapphire crystal, waterproof screw-down crown. Platinum rotatable bezel. Made in Rolesium.
  • 16628: Full 18K yellow gold. Automatic Rolex Caliber 3135 movement with date function. Movement with 31 jewels and quickset function. scratch-resistant sapphire crystal, waterproof screw-down crown. Rotatable bezel.
  • 68623: 35mm. Two-tone with 18k yellow gold and stainless steel. Discontinued in 1999. 
  • 68628: Full 18k yellow gold. 35mm case. Rotating bezel.
  • 168622: 35mm. Platinum Uni-directional rotating bezel. Platinum dial. Rolex Calibre 2235 automatic movement. 48-hour power reserve.
  • 168623: Two-tone 18K contrasted by stainless steel. 100 meters of water resistance.
  • 168628:  Full 18k yellow gold. 100 meters waterproof. Automatic movement, scratch-resistant sapphire crystal, waterproof, screw-down crown.
  • 169623: Two-tone. 18k gold and stainless steel. 
  • 169628: Full 18k yellow gold. Automatic movement. Bi-rotational Bezel, Date, Second Hand
  • 169622: Platinum and steel. unidirectional rotating bezel. 
  • 166233: Mechanical automatic movement. Rotatable 18k yellow gold bezel. 18k yellow gold and stainless steel case and bracelet.
  • 116689: White Dial with a body in white gold and platinum. Oyster-bracelet in solid white gold. 
  • 116688: Yacht-Master II in yellow gold with a blue bezel. 
  • 116655: 40mm Yacht-Master in rose gold with black dial and bezel
  • 69628: 29mm ladies Yacht-Master in yellow gold with a blue and white dial. 
  • 69623: 29mm ladies Yacht-aster in two-tone ( yellow gold and steel ). 
  • 116622: 40mm Yacht-Master in steel and platinum bezel. Available with blue or white dial.
  • 268621: Two-Tone Yacht-Master in rose gold and steel in 37mm. Available with a brown/black dial.
  • 116681: Yacht-Master II in two-tone ( Yellow gold and stainless steel ) with a blue bezel.
  • 116621: 40mm Yacht-Master in two-tone (rose gold and stainless steel )
  • 268655: 37mm rose gold Yacht-Master with an Oysterflex rubber strap.
  • 268622: 37mm Yacht-Master in stainless steel and platinum bezel. Known for the blue second hand.
  • 126655: Updated version of 116655 with new caliber 3235 and featuring Glidelock clasp.
  • 126622: Updated version of 116622 with new 3235 movement.
  • 226659: New Basel 2018 release. White gold 42mm case with Oysterflex bracelet.

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  • Daniel Hart

    London, United Kingdom — Features Writer, vintage & provenance
    Daniel Hartley came to watches late and sideways. For eleven years he was a picture editor at a national newspaper, a job that trained him to read objects for their stories — who held this, when, why it survived. He had no family in the trade and no particular interest in the mechanical side. What captured him was a single wristwatch left by an uncle: scratched, unremarkable, and engraved on the caseback with a date and a name he didn't recognize. Chasing that name down took him six months and taught him that a watch is a document.
    That is still his beat. Daniel writes about vintage watches as historical witnesses — service records, auction provenance, the quiet forensics of establishing whether a dial is original or has lived a second life. He is drawn to the objects that outlast their owners and carry the fingerprints of everyone who wound them.
    His journalistic instincts make him a careful, sometimes uncomfortable presence at auction houses, where provenance is asserted more often than proven. He has broken stories about redialed "military" pieces and inflated attributions, and he writes about the vintage market's honesty problem without pretending he's above the romance that fuels it — he is not, and admits it.
    Daniel's features read like reportage rather than reviews. He is more interested in the human chain behind an object than in its lug width, though he has learned the lug width matters too. He photographs everything himself, a holdover from the picture desk.
    He wears the uncle's watch daily. He has never had it restored, on principle. The scratches, he argues, are the point.
    Byline version: Daniel Hartley is a features writer covering vintage watches and provenance. A former newspaper picture editor, he came to horology through a single inherited watch and its unresolved history.
Author

London, United Kingdom — Features Writer, vintage & provenance Daniel Hartley came to watches late and sideways. For eleven years he was a picture editor at a national newspaper, a job that trained him to read objects for their stories — who held this, when, why it survived. He had no family in the trade and no particular interest in the mechanical side. What captured him was a single wristwatch left by an uncle: scratched, unremarkable, and engraved on the caseback with a date and a name he didn't recognize. Chasing that name down took him six months and taught him that a watch is a document. That is still his beat. Daniel writes about vintage watches as historical witnesses — service records, auction provenance, the quiet forensics of establishing whether a dial is original or has lived a second life. He is drawn to the objects that outlast their owners and carry the fingerprints of everyone who wound them. His journalistic instincts make him a careful, sometimes uncomfortable presence at auction houses, where provenance is asserted more often than proven. He has broken stories about redialed "military" pieces and inflated attributions, and he writes about the vintage market's honesty problem without pretending he's above the romance that fuels it — he is not, and admits it. Daniel's features read like reportage rather than reviews. He is more interested in the human chain behind an object than in its lug width, though he has learned the lug width matters too. He photographs everything himself, a holdover from the picture desk. He wears the uncle's watch daily. He has never had it restored, on principle. The scratches, he argues, are the point. Byline version: Daniel Hartley is a features writer covering vintage watches and provenance. A former newspaper picture editor, he came to horology through a single inherited watch and its unresolved history.

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