The Turquoise Rolex Oyster Perpetual Tiffany Dial

You can't get one new any more, and that's the update this article badly needed. Rolex discontinued the turquoise Oyster Perpetual 41, reference 124300, after roughly two years of production. There's no waitlist left to join at any authorized dealer. The only route is the secondary market, where it trades well above what it originally listed for.

Why is it called the Tiffany dial?

Because the turquoise looks like Tiffany & Co.'s box, and for no other reason.

This matters more than it sounds, because the name misleads people constantly. Rolex never collaborated with Tiffany & Co. on this dial. There is no partnership, no co-branding and nothing on the watch that says Tiffany. It's collector slang, in exactly the same family as Pepsi, Hulk and Batman, and Rolex has never acknowledged any of them. If a listing implies the watch is an official Rolex and Tiffany collaboration, that seller is either confused or hoping you are.

Genuine Tiffany-signed Rolexes do exist, from an era when Tiffany retailed Rolex watches and stamped its name on the dial, and those are an entirely separate and much rarer thing. Don't let the two get mixed up in your head while you're shopping.

Why was it so hard to get even when it was in production?

Supply was thin from the start and demand was extraordinary.

The pastel-dial Oyster Perpetuals landed in 2020 and became instant sensations, which genuinely surprised people, because the Oyster Perpetual had always been the easy Rolex to buy. Authorized dealers received comparatively few of them, and of those, only a small number came through in turquoise. Some dealers saw one or two in a year. Waiting lists ran past two years, and plenty of people on them never got the call.

Then Rolex ended production. Whatever exists now is all that will ever exist, which took a watch that was already hard to find and closed the door behind it.

What does that mean if you want one now?

It means one thing: you're buying pre-owned, and you should plan accordingly.

Unlike authorized dealers, pre-owned sellers aren't held to a suggested retail price, and a discontinued turquoise OP trades at a very substantial premium over what it listed for. Prices move, so check a live market tracker for the reference rather than relying on any figure in an article, including this one.

Two practical cautions. First, a discontinued high-premium dial is an obvious target for counterfeiting and for custom aftermarket dials, and there are turquoise 124300s on the market with dials Rolex never fitted. Some are sold honestly as custom. Some aren't. Second, buy from someone who will open the watch, confirm the reference and serial in writing, and stand behind it. On this reference in particular, the seller is most of what you're paying for.

Rolex has since offered turquoise again in other forms, including on Celebration motif dials, so if it's the colour you love rather than that specific reference, you have more options than this article once suggested.

If you're looking for a pre-owned Rolex in San Diego, get in touch. If I don't have what you're looking for, I can probably find it for you. Give me a call or drop by our La Jolla showroom.