GMT-Master II
2013
£12,750
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Find me one like thisOriginal black dial with luminous inlaid white gold “Maxi” markers, Mercedes hands and GMT arrow hand. The GMT-Master II font is in green matching with the GMT hand. The dial has not been touched and remains in excellent original condition.
The GMT reference 116710LN in stainless steel with Cerachrom bezel. The serial number engraved on the rehaut corresponds with the Rolex guarantee card dating the watch to 2013. The watch has just been polished by Rolex is in excellent condition with no scratches.
Original Rolex Oyster GMT-Master bracelet with 12 links in total and flip lock clasp. 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.