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Since its inception in the early 20th Century, Rolex has made watch making history: In 1910, a Rolex wristwatch was the world's first chronometer certified by the Institute of the Swiss Watch Industry in Bienne. In 1914, the British Kew Observatory awarded a watch the precision certificate A for the first time. This award was previously reserved for marine chronometers.
With the GMT Master, Rolex has once again has paid respect to the tradition of designing watches and chronometers as precise navigation instruments.
In 1954, the latest coup, which displayed a second time zone, was introduced to the public. Since the 1940s, the number of long-duration flights increased worldwide, which necessitated the adjustment to different time zones. Therefore, the Pan Am airline started a contest for an official timepiece that would show at least two time zones. The value of such an innovation, in a time when the aviation industry had to make do without the INS and GPS for navigation, cannot be overestimated.
The GMT Master watches was the only watch to display the local time and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) simultaneously and therefore afforded the pilots celestial navigation with a single look at his wrist. As the first marine chronometer of the 18th and 19 Century, the Rolex GMT Master is an essential and extremely precise navigation instrument.
But not only the pilots were excited: using the new, 24-hour rotating bezel and a fourth pointer, Rolex had revolutionized the world of all world travelers. The professional and personal communications across national borders and time was optimized using the GMT Master, as well as the planning for meals and rest breaks to reduce the effect of jet lag.
Though the name Rolex stands for the largest luxury brand in the world, the GMT Master had originally been designed as a purely functional "tool". She was extremely tough because of the stainless steel construction, shock-resistant and waterproof up to 100m, properties that also made it extremely popular with soldiers and sailors. Until the 1970s there was only one version of the GMT Master in stainless steel, and only later the more luxurious versions of gold and stainless steel or pure gold were developed.
A modernized anniversary version of the GMT Master watches appeared in 2005, which contained several technical and cosmetic innovations, such as a ceramic bezel, which is significantly more scratch resistant than the original stainless steel bezel. In addition, the new GMT Master, or GMT Master II as it is also called, was equipped with a green dial, which traditionally decorates only models that have been produced continuously for more than 50 years.
Rolex, Breitling, IWC, Audemars Piguet, Panerai, Longines, Breguet, Patek Philippe, A. Lange & Söhne
| Category: | wristwatches |
| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 16758 |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 116718LN |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 116710 |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 1675 |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 16700 |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 16700 |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 16700 |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 6542 |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 16700 |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 16753 |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 16753 |
| Category: | wristwatches |
| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 16758 |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 16753w/warranty |
| Category: | wristwatches |
| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 16758 |
| Category: | wristwatches |
| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 1675 |
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| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 1675-serviced/warranty |
| Category: | wristwatches |
| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 6542 |
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| Category: | wristwatches |
| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 1675 |
Price on demand
| Category: | wristwatches |
| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 1675 |
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| Category: | wristwatches |
| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Category: | wristwatches |
| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 1675 |
Price on demand
| Category: | wristwatches |
| Maker: | Rolex |
| Model: | GMT Master |
| Reference: | 16758 |
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