Model family · Rolex
Explorer
12 references54 variants1952–2001
Rolex’s time-only steel sport watch, tied to the 1953 Everest ascent and defined by the 3-6-9 black dial. Covers the bubbleback pre-Explorers, the 6350 and 6610, the long-running 1016, the 34 mm 5500 Explorer and the sapphire-crystal 14270.
Family timeline
All recorded years
19502010
12 references in production order. Overlapping bars show overlapping recorded dates.
19501965198019952010
Dates are those recorded in the catalog. Faint bars mark approximate dates; a dashed point marks a single known endpoint. Undated references remain visible. Chronological order does not establish a predecessor or successor relationship.