Rolex 114060 Submariner
Submariner -> 114060
The 114060 is the last 40mm no-date Submariner. Rolex introduced it at Baselworld 2012 and kept it in production until around 2020, when the 124060 arrived with caliber 3230 and a 41mm case. The ceramic bezel, the Maxi case, and the Glidelock bracelet all reached the no-date line with this reference, two years after the date models got them.
Caliber 3130 sits inside, the same COSC-certified movement that powered the late 14060M. On paper that makes the mechanical half of the story a carryover. On the wrist it is a different watch. The Maxi Case — Rolex's term for the wider-lugged, heavier-crowned case architecture that arrived on the ceramic-era Submariner — measures 40mm across but wears larger than a five-digit Sub. The lugs are broader, the crown guards heavier, and the whole watch carries more mass. At roughly 12.5mm thick and 48mm lug-to-lug it covers more wrist than the 40mm figure suggests.
Where the 14060M broke into 2-liner and 4-liner generations, the 114060 looks the same from 2012 to 2020, with no known mid-run specification changes. Collectors who overlooked the watch while it was current now call it "the last small Sub," and interest has climbed steadily since the 41mm 124060 replaced it.
Core facts
| detail | value |
|---|---|
| reference | 114060 |
| family | Submariner (no date) |
| production | 2012 to about 2020 |
| movement | caliber 3130, COSC, 28,800 vph, 48hr power reserve |
| case | 40mm, 904L steel, Maxi case, no lug holes, ~12.5mm thick, ~48mm lug-to-lug |
| crystal | sapphire, flat, no Cyclops |
| water resistance | 300m / 1000ft |
| crown | Triplock screw-down |
| bezel | Cerachrom ceramic, unidirectional, platinum PVD numerals, scratch-resistant |
| bracelet | Oyster ref.97200, solid links, Oysterlock with Glidelock (20mm micro-adjust) |
| dial | 2-line ("Submariner" + depth rating), white gold Maxi markers |
| lume | Chromalight blue |
| rehaut | engraved "ROLEX" repeating + serial at 6 |
| case back | solid steel, screw-down |
| successor | 124060 |
Where it sits in the line
The 114060 shares its generation with two date-equipped siblings, the black-bezel 116610LN and the green-bezel 116610LV, the "Hulk." Both date watches run caliber 3135; the no-date carries the 3130. Together the three make up the six-digit Submariner family of 2010 to 2020, all of them on black or green Cerachrom and all COSC-certified.
The 114060 replaced the 14060M and was itself succeeded by the 124060, which brought caliber 3230 with its 70-hour reserve and moved the case to 41mm. That one-millimetre step is most of why the reference has held collector attention. The 114060 is the last no-date Submariner built at 40mm.
Colin A. White's The Vintage Rolex Field Manual records the 114060 as the introduction of the engraved rehaut to the no-date Submariner line, though the feature had already appeared on the 4-liner 14060M from 2007.
Production outline
Rolex launched the 114060 at full modern specification in 2012 and left it alone until discontinuation in 2020. Cerachrom bezel, Maxi case, Glidelock bracelet, Chromalight lume, engraved rehaut, and random serial numbers were all there on the first examples; the switch from sequential to random numbering had happened by 2010. No mid-run dial, bracelet, or case change has been documented.
The consistency makes the 114060 one of the simpler modern Submariners to buy on the secondary market. There is no 2-liner versus 4-liner split, no bracelet upgrade window, and no lug-hole question. A 2013 example should look identical to a 2019 example.
Whether smaller changes went through over eight years — clasp refinements, hairspring variants inside the 3130 — has not been documented in the published collector literature.
Movement notes
Caliber 3130 is an automatic no-date movement with COSC chronometer certification, running at 28,800 vph and storing about 48 hours of power reserve. The same caliber powered the late 14060M, so the movement is carryover rather than new. Regulation is handled by a Parachrom blue hairspring — Rolex's paramagnetic alloy spring, more resistant to magnetic fields, temperature change, and shock than a traditional spring — together with Microstella regulating nuts on the balance.
The 114060 was the last Submariner to run the 3130. Its successor, the 124060, moved to caliber 3230 with the 70-hour reserve and the Chronergy escapement, closing out the 3130 era in the no-date line.
Dial map
The dial is glossy black with applied white-gold Maxi markers and larger Mercedes hands. "Maxi" in this context refers to marker and hand proportions — bigger lume plots and wider hands than the five-digit 14060 and 14060M carried, sized to match the wider Maxi Case.
The 2-line question
The 114060 carries four lines of lower dial text: "SUBMARINER," the depth rating, and "SUPERLATIVE CHRONOMETER OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED." It keeps the symmetrical no-date layout, but it does not return to the sparse 2-line lower dial of the original 14060 or early 14060M. The clean look comes from the absence of a date window and Cyclops, not from the absence of chronometer text. The 114060 is COSC-certified but does not announce the fact on the dial. That places it in an unusual position in Submariner history: the original 14060 carried a 2-line dial because it was not COSC-certified; the late 14060M carried a 4-line dial because it was certified and Rolex wanted to say so; the 114060 carries a 2-line dial despite being certified. The layout is a design choice, not a specification limitation.
For collectors who care about dial typography, the 114060 is the modern reference that most closely echoes the spare look of the original 14060 — a COSC-grade movement sitting behind a visually uncluttered face.
All markers and hands use Chromalight, Rolex's long-emission lume, which glows blue where the older Super-LumiNova glowed green. Owners posting on the Rolex forums put useful legibility at three to seven-plus hours in complete darkness, the spread depending on how much light the dial had taken beforehand. The "SWISS MADE" text sits at 6 o'clock.
Case, bezel, crystal, and crown
Maxi case
The case is 40mm 904L stainless steel in the Maxi format — wider lugs and more pronounced crown guards than the slim five-digit case used on the 14060 and 14060M, about 12.5mm thick with a 48mm lug-to-lug span, and no drilled lug holes.
Finishing follows the modern Professional pattern, brushed across the top surfaces and mirror-polished on the flanks, so the wider lugs throw a hard line of light down each side.
A shared 40mm diameter does not mean a shared wrist feel. Set next to a 14060M, the Maxi case looks and weighs like the larger watch. Collectors split on it, some wanting the heft and presence, others missing the slimmer five-digit proportions, and that split is part of why the 114060 has become collectible. It is the last Submariner to offer the 40mm Maxi case before Rolex moved the line to 41mm.
Cerachrom bezel
The bezel is unidirectional with a black insert in Cerachrom, Rolex's proprietary ceramic. It resists scratching, does not fade under UV, and should read the same in twenty years as it does new. Numerals and graduation marks are filled with platinum applied by PVD, a silver-grey that catches light cleanly against the black.
Cerachrom is the most visible difference between the 114060 and the 14060M. Aluminum inserts on older Subs scratch, fade, and take on patina; ceramic does none of it. That is the whole argument, and collectors fall on both sides of it. Aluminum ages into character; ceramic stays as delivered.
Crystal and crown
Flat sapphire crystal, no Cyclops — the defining visual difference between the no-date 114060 and the date-equipped 116610LN. The flat crystal gives the 114060 a symmetrical face with no magnifier bump at 3 o'clock. The crown is the Triplock screw-down, carried over from the 14060M and rated to 300m.
Rehaut
The inner rehaut is engraved with repeating "ROLEX" text and the serial number at the 6 o'clock position — standard on all 114060 examples, matching the engraved rehaut introduced on the 4-liner 14060M from 2007.
The case back is solid steel, screw-down, with no display window.
Bracelets, end links, clasps, and packaging notes
Bracelet
The 114060 ships on bracelet ref.97200: an Oyster bracelet with solid links and an Oysterlock clasp fitted with the Glidelock extension system. The Oysterlock is the locking clasp Rolex uses across the modern Professional line — a folding safety catch that prevents accidental opening.
Glidelock is the in-clasp micro-adjustment, a notched slider inside the clasp body that changes bracelet length in roughly 2mm steps across a 20mm range with no tools. It handles a wetsuit cuff, or a wrist swollen in the heat, without anyone reaching for a spring-bar tool. The system was new to the no-date Submariner with the 114060.
The 97200 is a clear upgrade on the 93150 and 93250 that came on the 14060 and 14060M. It is heavier, it is more solid, and it carries the most practical bracelet adjustment Rolex has put into production.
Clasp date codes
The clasp date codes tabulated in the Field Manual stop at RS = 2010, which leaves every 114060 clasp past the end of the published chart. Whether the coding system carried on unchanged after that point is not recorded. An "S" stamp on any Rolex clasp denotes a service replacement.
Packaging
A period-correct 114060 comes in the green Rolex box with its white or green outer sleeve, the green warranty card, booklets, and hang tags. Rolex changed the warranty card format somewhere inside this window, and the precise sequence of packaging variations across 2012 to 2020 has not been mapped.
Special branches
There are none. The 114060 was a standard commercial reference with no military, retailer, or regional variants, and it stayed uniform from the first example to the last. With no mid-run changes there is no variant hierarchy to rank inside the reference, so buyers sort examples by condition and completeness — box, papers, warranty card — rather than by production year.
Collector perspective: "the last small Sub"
The 114060 became a collector favorite only with time. While it was current it lived behind the 116610LN and the 116610LV, because Glidelock and Cerachrom made bigger news on the date line and because the Hulk's green dial was a conversation piece. The no-date was the quiet one in the family.
Discontinuation in 2020 reframed it. Once the 124060 arrived at 41mm the 40mm no-date Submariner was gone, and the size that had defined the model for decades survived only in discontinued references. Buyers who found the 124060 a shade too large went back one generation and got the proportions they wanted.
The reappraisal is still running. The 114060 is not a vintage collectible and may never command vintage-tier premiums. But it occupies a specific niche — a modern, hard-wearing ceramic-bezel Submariner in the classic 40mm case, with a clean 2-line dial, no date window, no Cyclops, and no chronometer text. For a certain kind of buyer, nothing else on the current market does this.
Production volume estimates
Industry estimates from the early 2010s put no-date Submariner production at roughly 15,000 units per year. If those figures held steady across the 114060's eight-year run, total production would land somewhere around 120,000 units — a rough envelope, since Rolex does not publish production numbers and the estimate circulates among dealers and collectors rather than from any factory source.
Historical market and auction record
The 114060 sits in the strongest part of the modern no-date Submariner market. It was discontinued recently enough that examples are abundant, and demand has stayed firm because it is the last 40mm no-date Sub.
Sotheby's maintains a dedicated buying category for the reference, with examples listed at prices that reflect its position as a mainstream modern collectible. Christie's has also handled 114060 lots, though specific hammer prices have not been extracted in the current evidence set.
On the secondary market the 114060 trades above both the 14060 and the 14060M. The ceramic bezel, Glidelock bracelet, and Maxi Case are a clear step up in build quality and finishing, and the clean 2-line dial appeals to collectors who want the no-date layout without chronometer text on the face.
Comparison with the 124060 successor focuses on two changes: the movement (3130 versus 3230, 48-hour versus 70-hour reserve) and the case (40mm versus 41mm). Some collectors prefer the 114060 for the 40mm case and take the older movement in the trade.
Related references
- Submariner 116610LV — "Hulk", Green Dial (2010–2020)
- Submariner 116610LN — 2010–2020
- Submariner 116613 — 2009–2020
- Submariner 116618 — Yellow Gold (2008–2020)
- Submariner 116619LB — "Smurf", White Gold (2008–2020)
- Submariner 16610LV — "Kermit", Green Bezel (2003–2010)
See also the Submariner family index, movement reference, bracelet & clasp guide, and serial numbers by year.
Sources
- History of the Rolex Submariner - Part 2, The 55XX References and 1680 Date — Tom Mulraney, Monochrome
- The Rolex Submariner: A Complete Collector's Guide — Stephen Pulvirent, Sotheby's
- Rolex Submariner 114060 Review — Andrew McUtchen, Time and Tide Watches
- Rolex Submariner 114060 Review — Ariel Adams, aBlogtoWatch
- Rolex Submariner Reference Guide — Professional Watches editorial, Professional Watches