Tiffany

Pre-owned Rolex Tiffany

Two different watches get called Tiffany, and it is worth knowing which one you are looking at.

The one most people mean today is the turquoise-dial Oyster Perpetual — reference 126000 in 36mm and 277200 in 31mm. Rolex calls the colour turquoise blue; collectors named it after the Tiffany & Co. box. The turquoise-dial Daytona 126518LN belongs to the same family. The other is a genuine Tiffany & Co. co-signed dial, where the retailer’s name sits beneath Rolex’s on a vintage piece. Those are rare, frequently faked, and priced accordingly.

The turquoise dial

Rolex’s turquoise blue arrived as part of a run of strong, flat lacquer dial colours on the Oyster Perpetual, and it became the one everybody wanted. The Oyster Perpetual is the simplest watch Rolex makes — no date, no complication, just time — which is exactly why an unusual dial colour carries the whole watch. We list it most often as the 36mm 126000, occasionally in the 31mm 277200.

Co-signed dials are a different thing entirely

A true Tiffany & Co. double-signed Rolex was sold through Tiffany and carries their name printed under Rolex’s. They are genuinely scarce, and because the value sits in a line of text, they are among the most commonly faked dials in the market. Printing can be added to an ordinary dial. Provenance, archive extracts and dial analysis are the only reliable checks, and any co-signed dial we handle is authenticated before it is listed.

What to check

On turquoise dials, look for consistency of colour and any lacquer crazing near the edges. On co-signed dials, be sceptical by default: ask what the authentication was, who did it, and what documentation exists. If a co-signed watch is priced close to an ordinary example, treat that as a warning rather than an opportunity.

Related collections

See the Celebration dial for the other Oyster Perpetual that people seek out by dial alone, the full Oyster Perpetual collection, or Daytona for the 126518LN.