Rolex Bezel Protectors Complete Guide

Rolex Bezel Protectors Guide

In this article, we will focus on a detail about Rolex watches that only the most devoted watch nerds and enthusiasts think about and even value.

In this article, we’ll go o into detail about Rolex bezel protectors and everything you need to know about them.

Rolex bezel protectors

When a Rolex watch is sent from the Rolex factory to official Rolex retailers, they are shipped in plastic coffins. The goal is, of course, to ensure complete safety so that the watch arrives in perfect condition and isn’t damaged during transportation. Rolex has paid a great deal of thought to this and invested heavily in the logistics.

One way that Rolex keeps its watches protected during the transportation is by putting protective factory stickers onto the watches to protect them from any scratches. Furthermore, they put plastic bezel protectors on the bezels of the watches to keep them protected. And lastly, they put the watch in a plastic coffin, which also has a styrofoam holder. All of this is done to ensure maximum protection. In around 2020, Rolex began changing its travel coffins from hard plastic to paper, likely for environmental reasons.

In recent years, Rolex has enforced new policies that demand official Rolex retailers to remove the factory stickers from the watches when selling them. The reason for this is to prevent resellers to sell them as ”brand new”. With this policy, some retailers have also become stricter with the Rolex bezel protector as well.

Most devoted watch nerds and collectors prefer to get everything that comes with the original ”set” when buying a watch. The more of the original accessories, the better. This includes things like the hangtag, outer cardboard sleeve for the box, the original transportation box, and of course the original Rolex bezel protector… And so on..

Some official Rolex retailers will give you the bezel protector when you buy a watch, but others will keep it and say that it is Rolex policy. Since different watches have different bezel types and sizes, Rolex has given the plastic bezel protectors their own reference numbers. Some bezel protector reference numbers are used for multiple watches, but others only for one.

If you don’t have the original bezel protector for your watch and want to get one, either for protection while traveling, or just to complete your Rolex set, it is possible to buy them in different places, for example on Millenary Watches Accessories, eBay, etc.

Below, you can find the Rolex bezel protectors serial numbers, so you can identify which protector you should have for your watch. Note that the same reference may have used different bezel protectors over the course of its production.

Rolex bezel protectors reference numbers

• Milgauss 116400 & Air-King 116900: 61
• All ceramic Submariners: 70
• All ceramic Daytonas: N89
• Yacht-Master 116655/126655: N211
• All ceramic GMT-Master II whose ref starts with 11: 47
• Deepsea Sea-Dweller 116660: 60
• Submariner 14060M: 21
• Sea-Dweller: N86
• Datejust 41 fluted bezel: N207
• Daytona whose reference starts with 11 with non-ceramic bezels + Explorer 114270: 1 (See exceptions below)
• Daytona ref 11652X, 11651X, 11650X: N101
• Yacht-Master ref 11662X: N106
• Any 5-digit ref Submariner + 116622 & 16622: 6
• Explorer 114270: 19
• Datejust II with smooth or fluted bezel: N169
• Yacht-Master 37: N215
• Yacht-Master 37 rose gold: N210
• Oyster Perpetual 31: 52
• Oyster Perpetual 31 (2020) reference 277200: N213
• Oyster Perpetual 34: 50
• Oyster Perpetual 41: 235
• Explorer 16570: 9
• Sea-Dweller 16600: 20
• Rolex Datejust 28mm smooth or fluted bezel: N206
• Oyster Perpetual 36: N156
• Day-Date 40: N203
• Datejust 31: N184
• Yacht-Master 29mm: 8
• Oyster Perpetual Date 15200: 4
• Datejust 36 ref beginning with 11: 26
• Day-Date 118208: 34
• Yacht-Master 35mm: 5
• Datejust II fluted bezel: 69
• Sky-Dweller: N88/N188
• Explorer II 216570: N183
• Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller 126660: N160
• Rolex Sea-Dweller 126600: N160
• Rolex Explorer 214270: N225 or N82
• Rolex Datejust 41 126334: N182
• NEW 2020 Rolex Submariner, 16610LV, 116610LN, 114060 and gold and steel versions as well as GMT MASTER II 116710BLNR 126710BLRO,  126710BLNR, 116710LN: N170
• New 2020 Oyster Perpetual 41 124300: N235
• Sky-Dweller: N310 – fits all references
• Datejust 36 126203, 126233, 126201, 126231, 126234: N227