Rocket Espresso Parts, and the Document That Does Not Exist
Rocket publishes 11 parts with manufacturer part numbers on its own shop, readable by every crawler tested. It publishes no parts catalogue, and the official ones are hosted by retailers.
Rocket publishes manufacturer part numbers on its own domain, and publishes no document saying which machine each part belongs to.
What Rocket publishes on its own domain
shop.rocket-espresso.com carries a parts collection with a part number on every item. Read 13 August 2026.
| Part | Part number |
|---|---|
| Group Head Gasket | C449900229 |
| Portafilter, double | A699905021 |
| Portafilter, single | A699905020 |
| Shower Foil | C519900103 |
| Blind Filter Basket | C619900106 |
| Filter basket 7g | C610003902 |
| Steam wand tips | RA99904469 |
| Appartamento stainless steel cup frame | RA99906129 |
| Chrome R knob cover, Appartamento | A529R04649 |
| Faustino Hopper | R039907746 |
| IMS Competition Series filter basket | M619906554 |
The counting rule: the parts collection contains 11 products and 12 variants, and every variant carries a part number. Across the whole store the figures are 54 products, 145 variants and 92 variants with a part number, counted from the store’s own product listing on 13 August 2026.
It is readable by everything that asked
Four requests to shop.rocket-espresso.com/collections/parts on 13 August 2026 returned HTTP 200 at 149,606 bytes each.
| User agent | Status | Body |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome 125 browser string | 200 | 149,606 bytes |
| GPTBot | 200 | 149,606 bytes |
| ClaudeBot | 200 | 149,606 bytes |
| Googlebot | 200 | 149,606 bytes |
One byte count across four agents. The part numbers are in the served HTML rather than assembled by JavaScript: C449900229 appears in the collection markup and again in the product page markup.
This is the opposite of what the authorised Philips parts source does. That one returns HTTP 403 to all ten user agents tested, at an identical 5,512 bytes, while its own robots.txt permits the path.
What is still missing, and it is the part that matters
Rocket publishes no parts catalogue, no exploded diagram and no model-to-part mapping on any Rocket domain.
A part number without a diagram answers half a question. It tells you what to order once you already know what you need. It does not tell you where the part sits, what it is called in the assembly, or which machines take it.
Of 54 products in the store, 12 name any machine model in their description at all. Counted by reading every product description in the store listing on 13 August 2026 and testing each for a Rocket model name.
The two compatibility statements the shop does make
These are quoted because no Rocket technical document states compatibility anywhere.
Group head gasket for all E61 group head machines. 8mm thickness.
Steam wand tips for the Giotto, Cellini Plus, Evoluzione and Classic. These will not fit an R 58, R Cinqua
The second states a negative fit, which is the more useful of the two and the harder to find. Both are statements a shop listing makes. Neither is a shared part number in a published parts catalogue, which is the standard this site applies before restating a compatibility claim as a specification, so they are reported here as what the shop says and not as established fit.
The official catalogues exist, and Rocket does not host them
Rocket Espresso Ltd spare parts catalogues carry edition codes and are hosted by retailers.
| Document | Edition | Host |
|---|---|---|
| APPARTAMENTO Spare Parts Catalogue | Ed.04.2023 | 1st-line.com |
| APPARTAMENTO Spare Parts Catalogue | Ed. 02.2017 | wiki.wholelattelove.com |
| Boxer 2 Group parts diagram | 12-2024 | 1st-line.com |
| Parts diagrams, Appartamento, Boxer, Fausto, Giotto Evoluzione, Giotto V3, R58, R60V, R9, RE A | various | specialistespresso.com |
Provenance was checked rather than assumed. The 1st-line copy was downloaded and its own header reads Rocket Espresso Ltd APPARTAMENTO Espresso Machine, so the document is genuinely the manufacturer’s even though the manufacturer is not the one serving it.
A retailer-hosted document can be withdrawn by the retailer. The edition code is what makes it citable at all: Ed.04.2023 identifies a specific document, where a URL on a shop that reorganises its files identifies nothing durable.
A correction this page exists to make
An earlier reading of this site’s own notes concluded that Rocket hosts no parts resource on its own domain. That conclusion was wrong.
It was drawn from paths under rocket-espresso.com, where /support, /downloads, /manuals, /documents, /technical, /service, /spare-parts and /resources all fail, and it did not test the shop. subdomain, which does publish parts.
The narrower claim survives and is what this page publishes: Rocket sells parts by number on its own domain and publishes no document that says which machine each number belongs to.