Used Rolex Milgauss: The Antimagnetic Rolex

Every Milgauss we sell is authenticated and covered by our one year warranty, and you can see current prices in the live inventory above. Our asking price as of September 2026 for our 2018 reference 116400GV with the black dial, sold as a watch only, is $10,643.

Across the wider market, typical pre-owned asking ranges as of September 2026 sort the modern line in a predictable order: the clear crystal 116400 at the bottom, the green sapphire 116400GV above it, and the Z-Blue above both. A full set moves any of them up and a watch only example moves down, which is the biggest swing inside one reference.

The vintage references are a different market. A 1019 is priced on its dial before anything else, and the 6541 is a rarity where correct examples trade in six figures, so ignore vintage results when you price a modern 116400. If we do not have the version you want on hand, we source it through our dealer network.

Six references cover almost every Milgauss search, and none of them is in production, because the line ended in 2023. Rows marked "Ours" show our current asking prices as of September 2026 and link to the watch; other rows give typical pre-owned asking ranges as of September 2026, kept broad because set and condition move this model by thousands.

The comparison buyers agonize over is black GV against Z-Blue, and it has no spec sheet tiebreaker. Both are 40mm, both run calibre 3131, both are rated to 100 meters, both wear the green tinted crystal. The only variable is the dial, and it moves the price because it moves how many people want the watch. Put both on and buy the one you keep looking at.

The second question is GV against the plain 116400, and there the answer is money: the clear crystal versions typically trade below the green ones, and everything else is identical. If the green tint is why you want a Milgauss, buy the GV. If it is the lightning bolt and the antimagnetic story you are after, the plain 116400 gives you both for less.

Vintage is a different decision. A 1019 has no lightning bolt, no color and no obvious Rolex drama; most people read it as an old Datejust, which is the point. Read our guide on how to buy a used Rolex safely first, and use Rolex serial number lookup to date any candidate to within a year.

Live asking prices from our inventory as of September 2026; prices change as watches sell. The Milgauss has been out of production since 2023, so stock is thin and rotates quickly. If the version you want is not below, use the request form above and we will check the dealer network, or browse the full shop.

Have a Milgauss, or something else, you want to trade toward one? Start at sell my Rolex with the reference and a photo of the dial, and we will price the trade against any Milgauss in stock.

A used Rolex Milgauss is the only way to buy one now. Rolex introduced it in 1956 as an antimagnetic watch for scientists who worked beside equipment strong enough to ruin an ordinary movement, and removed it from the catalog in 2023 without a replacement. The name is literal: mille, French for thousand, plus gauss, the unit of magnetic flux density it was built to survive.

We are an independent pre-owned dealer with by-appointment offices in Brickell and Aventura in Miami and in Downtown Los Angeles, and you can browse our available Milgauss watches in the live inventory above. We are not an authorized Rolex dealer and are not affiliated with Rolex S.A. Every Milgauss we sell passes an independent authentication review and carries our one year warranty.

The problem it was built to solve is real and unglamorous. Park a mechanical movement next to a strong magnetic field and the hairspring coils cling to each other, the effective length shortens, and the watch runs fast, sometimes by minutes a day. For a physicist timing an experiment, that is a broken instrument. Rolex developed the Milgauss with input from scientists, including at CERN, and the 6541 of 1956 answered with a soft iron shield inside the case and a rotating bezel outside it. Its seconds hand was shaped like a lightning bolt.

In 1960 Rolex replaced it with the 1019 and did something unusual: it took the personality out. The bezel went smooth, the lightning bolt gave way to a plain straight seconds hand, and the dial became a flat silver or black surface. Inside, a soft iron dial and inner case formed a Faraday cage around the calibre 1580, diverting magnetic flux around the movement instead of through it. The 1019 ran for 28 years and was discontinued in 1988. It looked like nothing, which is what a laboratory buyer wanted and why almost nobody else bought one.

The Milgauss stayed dead for 19 years. In 2007 Rolex brought it back as the 116400: 40mm, steel only, rated to 100 meters, with the orange lightning bolt restored and the calibre 3131 inside. That movement pairs the soft iron shield with a paramagnetic Parachrom hairspring, so the watch resists magnetism through the hairspring material as well as through the cage. Rolex also offered the 116400GV with a green tinted sapphire, glace verte, a crystal it has never used on another model. In the mid 2010s the plain crystal versions left the catalog and the GV became the whole line.

The last change came in 2014, when the Z-Blue dial arrived on the 116400GV: electric blue lacquer with orange accents, read through green glass. It gave the model a second life among buyers who had never cared about magnetism. Then in 2023 Rolex discontinued the Milgauss again, and the pre-owned market became the only market. No waitlist, no new allocation, no replacement reference: there is only what was already made.

This is a watch people decide on in person, because photographs lie about both the green crystal and the Z-Blue dial. We see buyers by appointment in Brickell or Aventura in Miami, or at our Downtown Los Angeles Jewelry District office, and we buy, sell and trade. Pay by bank wire or cash at our Miami offices, or skip the visit and we ship free by insured FedEx Priority Overnight anywhere in the US.