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Rolex Deepsea Challenge (Titanium), reference 126067

Rolex

Deepsea Challenge (Titanium)

Ref. 126067

$38,700 · AED 142,100

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Case50mm RLX titanium
DialBlack
BezelUnidirectional, Ring Lock System
MovementAutomatic calibre 3230
BraceletTitanium Oyster
Water11,000m
ConditionUnworn
Year2025

The Deepsea Challenge is Rolex's own record holder made wearable: the case that rode to the bottom of the Mariana Trench on the wrist of a full scale submersible in 2012, scaled down in 2022 into a titanium watch you can actually buy. It is the deepest rated Rolex ever put into series production.

This Rolex Deepsea Challenge wears a 50mm RLX titanium case with a black dial and the Ring Lock System visible at the sides. Automatic calibre 3230 inside.

Fun fact: RLX titanium is Rolex's own grade 5 alloy, and the Ring Lock System is a hardened steel compression ring that lets a sapphire crystal and a titanium caseback flex inward under pressure rather than crack. At under 50 grams it is lighter on the wrist than most steel sports watches half its size.

The collection

Sea-Dweller

The saturation diver's Rolex, built around a valve that lets helium out

Rolex created the Sea-Dweller in 1967 for divers working out of pressurised habitats, and improved it afterwards in partnership with Comex. The defining part is not the depth figure but the helium escape valve in the case side, which opens by itself when helium that seeped in during a saturation dive builds up inside the case on the way back to the surface. The 43 mm Sea-Dweller is rated to 1,220 m, runs a unidirectional bezel with a black Cerachrom insert and an Oysterlock clasp with the Glidelock extension, and was the first in the line to take a cyclops over the date; it is made in Oystersteel and in Oystersteel with yellow gold. Rolex now lists the Deepsea as a family of its own, the 44 mm model rated to 3,900 m and built on the Ringlock System case architecture.

Sizes in the family

43 mm Sea-Dweller, with the Deepsea at 44 mm

Who it suits

For the buyer who wants a case built for saturation diving and is comfortable with the thickness that comes with it.

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