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Rolex 3230
This profile traverses clone_of · derived_from · design_imitation_of · ebauche_of · incorporates_module · licensed_copy_of · module_on · revision_of · tooling_transfer_of · variant_of and keeps disputed edges. Every edge in this view carries at least one reference.
Generations run left to right, ancestors first, and the axis along the top is ordinal rather than linear: each band is one generation, labelled with the range of sourced introduction years it contains. A band reads “—” when no caliber in it has a year anyone published — the gap is the finding, not a rendering failure. Dotted arcs above and below the drawing are related edges — successor, drop-in, no-derivation — which are stored in a different table from lineage and can never form part of an ancestry path.
Every edge in this view
| Caliber | Relationship | To | Status | Detail | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolex 3230 | variant of lineage | Rolex 3235 | accepted | interchange note: The source presents the 3230 and the 3235 as the no-date and date members of one generation fitted to the same watch in two versions. The delta is the date mechanism. · component delta: calendar_mechanism | |
| Rolex 3235 | derived from lineage | Rolex 3255 | accepted | interchange note: Published delta: the day complication is removed. The source frames the 3235 as the Day-Date 40 movement "without the day complication, thus becoming the Calibre 3235" — the direction of the derivation is the source's, not the corpus's. · component delta: calendar_mechanism | |
| Rolex 3230 | successor of related | design:rolex-3132 | accepted | Commercial replacement in the Explorer and no-date Submariner lines. | |
| Rolex 3235 | successor of related | design:rolex-3135 | accepted | Commercial replacement in the Datejust and Submariner Date lines. The source explicitly denies that the 3235 is "just an evolution of the existing 3135 / 3136 movements", so this stays in the related table and cannot appear in an ancestry path. |
Sources
- 1Monochrome Watcheshttps://monochrome-watches.com/rolex-submariner-history-part-4-modern-references/presstier 2retrieved 2026-08-241 fact on this page
- 2Monochrome Watcheshttps://monochrome-watches.com/rolex-datejust-41-baselworld-2016-new-case-movement-3235-comeback-jubilee-review-price/presstier 2retrieved 2026-08-242 facts on this page
- 3Monochrome Watcheshttps://monochrome-watches.com/history-rolex-explorer-from-1953-36mm-1016-14270-114270-214270-124270-in-depth-review/presstier 2retrieved 2026-08-241 fact on this page