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4 December 2017, 08:48 AM | #1 |
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Explorer 214270
Greetings, I’m certain someone has the answer to my question. I’ve decided to add an Explorer and I’m not getting a clear answer on the dial and hands. MK2 version. Apparently it was introduced in 2016. Are all 214270 models from 2016 included with the longer hands and lume dial? Also I’m seeing Explorers from 2010 with the mk2 version. Various bits of confusing information out there. Also if the dial has been changed on an older version are the hands changed automatically? Thanks for any clarification of the issue.
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4 December 2017, 09:31 AM | #2 |
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There was abviously a point when the longer slightly wider hands/partially lumed 3/6/9 were introduced into production. How this translates to when those versions got to dealers and were subsequently sold is probably not possible to say. I'd think any new watch sold in 2010 would have the shorter hands/solid white gold numerals. It was no big issue anyway except in the minds of some who have made it one. Of course, some may have an issue now that the longer hands mean that the lumed part overlaps the lume of the 5 minute markers. The earlier version just "met up".
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4 December 2017, 09:39 AM | #3 | |
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Thank you, I am beginning to think that in fact it wasn’t an issue but as you’ve made mention it has been made into one. I simply love the watch and I’m particularly fond of the pre-lume 3/6/9 in the light gold tint. Classy. Thanks again. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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4 December 2017, 07:46 PM | #4 |
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5 December 2017, 10:46 AM | #5 |
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The first version of the 214270 was introduced in 2010. The size had increased from the 36mm 114270 to 39mm. The 3, 6, and 9 markers were not lumed, they were white gold.
The hands were the same ones used on the previous 36mm model so they looked small on the new watch with the larger dial. The latest version with the lumed 3, 6, and 9 markers and the longer hands was introduced after Basel World in 2016. The early 2016 models had the word explorer on the dial spaced unevenly like: E X PLOR E R This has been changed and the later models have even spacing on the word EXPLORER |
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