GMT-Master
1978
£23,000
Model name
GMT-Master
Location
Dubai - UAE
Year
1978
Metal
18k Yellow Gold
Reference
1675/8
Dial
Black, Nipple Dial
Serial
55XXXXX
Style
Men's / Unisex
Bezel
24 Hour
Indexes
Nipple
Case
40mm
Bracelet
Jubilee
Crystal
Plexiglass
Box & Paperwork
Oysterbar
Movement
Automatic
Condition
Very good
Original black nipple dial
Original sunburst charcoal-black dial with luminous inlaid gold “Nipple” markers. The dial is correctly signed “T Swiss T” referring to the original tritium luminous. The dial has not been touched and remains in excellent original condition.
Yellow Gold case with 24 hour rotating bezel
GMT reference 1675/8 in 18k solid gold with 24 hour rotating bezel. The 5.5 million serial number in-between the lugs denotes the year of production to 1978. The case & bracelet have not recently been polished and have light scratches from general use.
Original Solid Gold Rolex Jubilee Bracelet
Rare Original Rolex Jubilee bracelet in 18k solid gold with clasp code D. Bracelets can be resized on request.
Released in 1954, the GMT-Master resulted from Pan Am and Rolex collaborating on a watch that could tell the time in two different places at once
With the further innovation and popularisation of commercial flying, the distances of flights became greater. This resulted in pilots crossing into different time zones more frequently. Thus, a need for uniformity across the industry was borne as potential issues could arise when communicating with ground teams in a different time zone to the pilots. To eliminate these errors, the aviation industry adopted a standard time-zone, Greenwich Mean Time. As such, the GMT-Master’s fourth hand, the 2nd-hour hand, was to stay on Greenwich Mean Time – which is where the name for the watch comes from.
