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	== How this is built ==		== How this is built ==

	BezelBase ~~articles are original writing~~ — ~~researched, cross-referenced~~, ~~and structured from scratch. We study~~ the ~~same primary material any serious collector would:~~ Rolex ~~documentation, published reference books~~, auction catalogues, and ~~decades of discussion across~~ the ~~watch collecting community. We then distill that into a single narrative for each reference~~, ~~verifying claims across multiple sources and flagging contradictions~~ rather than ~~hiding them~~.		Every claim in a BezelBase article traces to a named source — Rolex primary material, the Vintage Rolex Field Manual, auction catalogues from Phillips, Sotheby's, and Christie's, specialist dealer archives, and documented collector research. Where sources disagree, both positions are presented with attribution. Where the historical record has gaps, they are acknowledged rather than glossed over.

	A lot of Rolex knowledge lives in the heads of serious collectors and experienced watchmakers — shared in passing on forums, mentioned in conversation at watch fairs, or buried in threads that get fewer views than they deserve. We try to capture those facts before they disappear and bring them together in one place. The ~~goal is to go deeper than the usual overview~~ articles — into the odd references, the short-run experiments, the dial variants that only matter to people who actually care. Rolex's history is more interesting than its current catalog, so there is a deliberate emphasis on documenting vintage and transitional models in detail rather than building an exhaustive list of every modern reference.		The articles are structured for reference use. Each follows the same architecture: core specifications, production outline, movement notes, dial map, case and bezel details, bracelet fitment, special branches, and market context. Built to be scanned, not just read.

	~~Every article~~ follows the same architecture: core specifications, production outline, movement notes, dial map, case and bezel details, bracelet fitment, special branches, and market context. ~~Each carries a source list at the bottom identifying the publications and researchers whose published work informed the article.~~

	~~== Acknowledgments ==~~

	The watch collecting community has spent decades building a body of knowledge that no single person could have assembled alone. Much of what appears on BezelBase exists because collectors, forum members, dealers, and independent researchers did the original work — photographing their watches, documenting dial variations, debating serial ranges, and sharing hard-won insights in places that were never designed for permanent archiving.

	~~Forum threads get buried. Websites go offline. Photobucket breaks its links. Dealer archives disappear when a business closes. The research persists only as long as someone remembers where~~ to find it. Part of what BezelBase does is preserve that work — gathering scattered findings into a single, structured, and properly attributed reference so that the knowledge these contributors built does not quietly vanish.

	Every article carries a source list that names the people and publications whose research informed it. Where an individual collector's original analysis shaped a section — Mark Lerman's Red Submariner primer, Beaumont Miller II's matte dial taxonomy, Tomvox's Maxi dial research, Marcello Pisani's coronet classification, Ed Delgado's Pre COMEX identification — they are credited by name. Where photographs from collectors, forum posts, or reference sites appear, they are used in the spirit of preservation and attribution, not ~~appropriation.~~

	If your work appears here and you would like it credited differently, expanded, corrected, or removed, please email us at '''contact@bezelbase.org'''. The people who built this knowledge base deserve to have their contributions recognized properly, and we take that seriously.

	== Contribute ==		== Contribute ==

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	A lot of Rolex knowledge lives in the heads of serious collectors and experienced watchmakers — shared in passing on forums, mentioned in conversation at watch fairs, or buried in threads that get fewer views than they deserve. We try to capture those facts before they disappear and bring them together in one place. The goal is to go deeper than the usual overview articles — into the odd references, the short-run experiments, the dial variants that only matter to people who actually care. Rolex's history is more interesting than its current catalog, so there is a deliberate emphasis on documenting vintage and transitional models in detail rather than building an exhaustive list of every modern reference.		A lot of Rolex knowledge lives in the heads of serious collectors and experienced watchmakers — shared in passing on forums, mentioned in conversation at watch fairs, or buried in threads that get fewer views than they deserve. We try to capture those facts before they disappear and bring them together in one place. The goal is to go deeper than the usual overview articles — into the odd references, the short-run experiments, the dial variants that only matter to people who actually care. Rolex's history is more interesting than its current catalog, so there is a deliberate emphasis on documenting vintage and transitional models in detail rather than building an exhaustive list of every modern reference.

	Every article follows the same architecture: core specifications, production outline, movement notes, dial map, case and bezel details, bracelet fitment, special branches, and market context. Each carries a source list at the bottom identifying the publications and researchers whose published work informed the article~~. Built to be scanned, not just read~~.		Every article follows the same architecture: core specifications, production outline, movement notes, dial map, case and bezel details, bracelet fitment, special branches, and market context. Each carries a source list at the bottom identifying the publications and researchers whose published work informed the article.

	== Acknowledgments ==		== Acknowledgments ==

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	BezelBase articles are original writing — researched, cross-referenced, and structured from scratch. We study the same primary material any serious collector would: Rolex documentation, published reference books, auction catalogues, and decades of discussion across the watch collecting community. We then distill that into a single narrative for each reference, verifying claims across multiple sources and flagging contradictions rather than hiding them.		BezelBase articles are original writing — researched, cross-referenced, and structured from scratch. We study the same primary material any serious collector would: Rolex documentation, published reference books, auction catalogues, and decades of discussion across the watch collecting community. We then distill that into a single narrative for each reference, verifying claims across multiple sources and flagging contradictions rather than hiding them.

			A lot of Rolex knowledge lives in the heads of serious collectors and experienced watchmakers — shared in passing on forums, mentioned in conversation at watch fairs, or buried in threads that get fewer views than they deserve. We try to capture those facts before they disappear and bring them together in one place. The goal is to go deeper than the usual overview articles — into the odd references, the short-run experiments, the dial variants that only matter to people who actually care. Rolex's history is more interesting than its current catalog, so there is a deliberate emphasis on documenting vintage and transitional models in detail rather than building an exhaustive list of every modern reference.

	Every article follows the same architecture: core specifications, production outline, movement notes, dial map, case and bezel details, bracelet fitment, special branches, and market context. Each carries a source list at the bottom identifying the publications and researchers whose published work informed the article. Built to be scanned, not just read.		Every article follows the same architecture: core specifications, production outline, movement notes, dial map, case and bezel details, bracelet fitment, special branches, and market context. Each carries a source list at the bottom identifying the publications and researchers whose published work informed the article. Built to be scanned, not just read.

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	== How this is built ==		== How this is built ==

	~~Every claim in a~~ BezelBase ~~article traces to a named source~~ — ~~Rolex~~ primary material, ~~the Vintage Rolex Field Manual~~, auction catalogues ~~from Phillips, Sotheby's~~, and ~~Christie's, specialist dealer archives~~, and ~~documented collector research. Where sources disagree, both positions are presented with attribution. Where the historical record has gaps, they are acknowledged~~ rather than ~~glossed over~~.		BezelBase articles are original writing — researched, cross-referenced, and structured from scratch. We study the same primary material any serious collector would: Rolex documentation, published reference books, auction catalogues, and decades of discussion across the watch collecting community. We then distill that into a single narrative for each reference, verifying claims across multiple sources and flagging contradictions rather than hiding them.

	~~The articles are structured for reference use. Each~~ follows the same architecture: core specifications, production outline, movement notes, dial map, case and bezel details, bracelet fitment, special branches, and market context. Built to be scanned, not just read.		Every article follows the same architecture: core specifications, production outline, movement notes, dial map, case and bezel details, bracelet fitment, special branches, and market context. Each carries a source list at the bottom identifying the publications and researchers whose published work informed the article. Built to be scanned, not just read.

	== Acknowledgments ==		== Acknowledgments ==

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	Every article carries a source list that names the people and publications whose research informed it. Where an individual collector's original analysis shaped a section — Mark Lerman's Red Submariner primer, Beaumont Miller II's matte dial taxonomy, Tomvox's Maxi dial research, Marcello Pisani's coronet classification, Ed Delgado's Pre COMEX identification — they are credited by name. Where photographs from collectors, forum posts, or reference sites appear, they are used in the spirit of preservation and attribution, not appropriation.		Every article carries a source list that names the people and publications whose research informed it. Where an individual collector's original analysis shaped a section — Mark Lerman's Red Submariner primer, Beaumont Miller II's matte dial taxonomy, Tomvox's Maxi dial research, Marcello Pisani's coronet classification, Ed Delgado's Pre COMEX identification — they are credited by name. Where photographs from collectors, forum posts, or reference sites appear, they are used in the spirit of preservation and attribution, not appropriation.

	If your work appears here and you would like it credited differently, expanded, corrected, or removed, please email us at '''contact@bezelbase.org''' ~~or leave a note on the [[Special:RecentChanges\|wiki talk pages]]~~. The people who built this knowledge base deserve to have their contributions recognized properly, and we take that seriously.		If your work appears here and you would like it credited differently, expanded, corrected, or removed, please email us at '''contact@bezelbase.org'''. The people who built this knowledge base deserve to have their contributions recognized properly, and we take that seriously.

	== Contribute ==		== Contribute ==

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	Every article carries a source list that names the people and publications whose research informed it. Where an individual collector's original analysis shaped a section — Mark Lerman's Red Submariner primer, Beaumont Miller II's matte dial taxonomy, Tomvox's Maxi dial research, Marcello Pisani's coronet classification, Ed Delgado's Pre COMEX identification — they are credited by name. Where photographs from collectors, forum posts, or reference sites appear, they are used in the spirit of preservation and attribution, not appropriation.		Every article carries a source list that names the people and publications whose research informed it. Where an individual collector's original analysis shaped a section — Mark Lerman's Red Submariner primer, Beaumont Miller II's matte dial taxonomy, Tomvox's Maxi dial research, Marcello Pisani's coronet classification, Ed Delgado's Pre COMEX identification — they are credited by name. Where photographs from collectors, forum posts, or reference sites appear, they are used in the spirit of preservation and attribution, not appropriation.

	If your work appears here and you would like it credited differently, expanded, corrected, or removed, please email us at '''bezelbase~~@gmail~~.~~com~~''' or leave a note on the [[Special:RecentChanges\|wiki talk pages]]. The people who built this knowledge base deserve to have their contributions recognized properly, and we take that seriously.		If your work appears here and you would like it credited differently, expanded, corrected, or removed, please email us at '''contact@bezelbase.org''' or leave a note on the [[Special:RecentChanges\|wiki talk pages]]. The people who built this knowledge base deserve to have their contributions recognized properly, and we take that seriously.

	== Contribute ==		== Contribute ==

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	Every article carries a source list that names the people and publications whose research informed it. Where an individual collector's original analysis shaped a section — Mark Lerman's Red Submariner primer, Beaumont Miller II's matte dial taxonomy, Tomvox's Maxi dial research, Marcello Pisani's coronet classification, Ed Delgado's Pre COMEX identification — they are credited by name. Where photographs from collectors, forum posts, or reference sites appear, they are used in the spirit of preservation and attribution, not appropriation.		Every article carries a source list that names the people and publications whose research informed it. Where an individual collector's original analysis shaped a section — Mark Lerman's Red Submariner primer, Beaumont Miller II's matte dial taxonomy, Tomvox's Maxi dial research, Marcello Pisani's coronet classification, Ed Delgado's Pre COMEX identification — they are credited by name. Where photographs from collectors, forum posts, or reference sites appear, they are used in the spirit of preservation and attribution, not appropriation.

	If your work appears here and you would like it credited differently, expanded, corrected, or removed, please [[~~BezelBase~~:~~About#Contribute~~\|~~get in touch~~]]. The people who built this knowledge base deserve to have their contributions recognized properly, and we take that seriously.		If your work appears here and you would like it credited differently, expanded, corrected, or removed, please email us at '''bezelbase@gmail.com''' or leave a note on the [[Special:RecentChanges\|wiki talk pages]]. The people who built this knowledge base deserve to have their contributions recognized properly, and we take that seriously.

	== Contribute ==		== Contribute ==

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	The articles are structured for reference use. Each follows the same architecture: core specifications, production outline, movement notes, dial map, case and bezel details, bracelet fitment, special branches, and market context. Built to be scanned, not just read.		The articles are structured for reference use. Each follows the same architecture: core specifications, production outline, movement notes, dial map, case and bezel details, bracelet fitment, special branches, and market context. Built to be scanned, not just read.

			== Acknowledgments ==

			The watch collecting community has spent decades building a body of knowledge that no single person could have assembled alone. Much of what appears on BezelBase exists because collectors, forum members, dealers, and independent researchers did the original work — photographing their watches, documenting dial variations, debating serial ranges, and sharing hard-won insights in places that were never designed for permanent archiving.

			Forum threads get buried. Websites go offline. Photobucket breaks its links. Dealer archives disappear when a business closes. The research persists only as long as someone remembers where to find it. Part of what BezelBase does is preserve that work — gathering scattered findings into a single, structured, and properly attributed reference so that the knowledge these contributors built does not quietly vanish.

			Every article carries a source list that names the people and publications whose research informed it. Where an individual collector's original analysis shaped a section — Mark Lerman's Red Submariner primer, Beaumont Miller II's matte dial taxonomy, Tomvox's Maxi dial research, Marcello Pisani's coronet classification, Ed Delgado's Pre COMEX identification — they are credited by name. Where photographs from collectors, forum posts, or reference sites appear, they are used in the spirit of preservation and attribution, not appropriation.

			If your work appears here and you would like it credited differently, expanded, corrected, or removed, please [[BezelBase:About#Contribute\|get in touch]]. The people who built this knowledge base deserve to have their contributions recognized properly, and we take that seriously.

	== Contribute ==		== Contribute ==

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== About this project ==

BezelBase is a hobby project with a simple ambition: capture the historical record of Rolex watches in one place, as thoroughly and honestly as possible. Not a blog, not a dealer site — just a reference, built by enthusiasts who keep falling deeper into the details and figured other people might want to read what they found.

The long-term goal is to cover every Rolex family.

== How this is built ==

Every claim in a BezelBase article traces to a named source — Rolex primary material, the Vintage Rolex Field Manual, auction catalogues from Phillips, Sotheby's, and Christie's, specialist dealer archives, and documented collector research. Where sources disagree, both positions are presented with attribution. Where the historical record has gaps, they are acknowledged rather than glossed over.

The articles are structured for reference use. Each follows the same architecture: core specifications, production outline, movement notes, dial map, case and bezel details, bracelet fitment, special branches, and market context. Built to be scanned, not just read.

== Contribute ==

This is an open project. If any of this interests you, there is plenty of work to do.

* '''Improve an article''' — every page is a working draft; click ''Edit source'' and make it better
* '''Bring sources''' — auction results, dealer archives, published research, anything that strengthens a claim or fills a gap
* '''Upload photos''' — images of watches you own are welcome (see the [[BezelBase:Image policy|image policy]])
* '''Flag errors''' — if something is wrong, say so; getting it right matters more than getting it finished

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