The caramel brown dial was black when it originally came out of the factory and the original two-tone Bakelite bezel was only made for a short time in the early 1950s. The Rolex GMT, with it's so ...

Radium on the dial and bezel provided illumination ... this modern successor to the original ref. 6542 is still in the Rolex catalog today. In 2022, Rolex turned the watch world on its head ...

The “OCC” dial was later replaced with the “Superlative ... This is a good example of an early yellow-gold Rolex GMT-Master 6542 watch. This watch features a date, sweep center seconds ...

A 1955 Rolex 6542 “Red” with a GMT Bakelite bezel can ... The holy grail, a Paul Newman dial Rolex Daytona Reference 6239 — so named for the actor who wore a 6239 as his everyday watch ...

That same year, Rolex, at the request of Pan Am, released its new GMT-Master (reference 6542), a watch that could simultaneously ... adds a fourth hand to the dial, augmenting the hour, minute and ...

Jean-Daniel Meyer The first Rolex GMT-Master ... from the almost mythical, white dial ‘Albino’ 6542 to the slightly larger reference 1675 of 1959, disappearing only with the introduction ...

If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more Rolex has launched a new version of its left-handed GMT The watch keeps the previous black-and-green “Sprite” bezel but adds a green dial ...

Radium on the dial and ... Though the 6542 was the very first GMT reference, it was in the 1675 where we see the blueprint for nearly all modern GMT-Master production. In 1959, Rolex added crown ...

Born of genuine need in the mid-50s, it features one of the most useful complications in all of horology.