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GMT-Master II

The GMT-Master II is the travel line: a two-colour bezel graduated in twenty-four hours, a fourth hand shaped as an arrow that takes a full day to circle the dial, and a date under a magnifying lens. In this collection the series is represented by one 40 mm silver-tone configuration with a black dial and a blue-and-black bezel. The bracelet and the clasp fitted to an individual watch are confirmed in the conversation.

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Reference photograph of a silver-tone watch with a black dial and a blue-and-black 24-hour bezel
  • Display Central hour, minute and seconds hands, plus an arrow-tipped 24-hour hand for a second time zone. Date at three o’clock under a magnifying lens.
  • Bezel Bidirectional 24-hour scale in two colours, blue and black, with even-hour numerals and marks between them.
  • Reading The pointer is read against the bezel graduation it is passing, not against the dial’s hour markers.
  • Bracelet shown Three-link, silver-tone in the photographs here, with bright outer links around a broader brushed centre.

In this collection

One GMT-Master II configuration

The Rolex brand page

This collection lists a small number of configurations. Series not shown here can still be discussed — send the model and reference and availability is checked for you.

Design notes

What defines the GMT-Master II

Two scales on one watch

The dial keeps a twelve-hour scale for everyday reading: a triangle at twelve, applied markers around the ring and a date at three. The bezel carries a twenty-four-hour scale for the arrow-tipped hand, graduated around the outside of the case rather than printed on the dial. The two coexist because they answer different questions — one gives the time where you are, the other the hour somewhere else — and each is read against a different hand. A reading is taken from the graduation the pointer is passing, which is why the scale has to stay legible from wherever the watch is held.

Where the GMT-Master II sits in this collection

The bezel is the part that changes between the designs here. The Submariner’s bezel is divided across sixty minutes and is read against the minute hand; the Daytona’s is a fixed printed rate table read against the chronograph hand; this one is divided into hours of the day and is read against the arrow-tipped hand. The case, the dial language and the bracelet stay familiar across all of them, so the choice usually comes down to which scale you would actually use. Model reference and case size are listed on the watch page; availability, the bracelet fitted to a particular watch, price and shipping are confirmed in the WhatsApp conversation.

These notes describe the design as it appears in the photographs on this site. Movement, water resistance, weight and material composition are not stated here, because those belong to the specific unit being offered and are confirmed in the conversation before anything is paid.

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Other Rolex series here

  • Cosmograph Daytona — Chronograph, 40 mm, with three registers and a tachymeter bezel, in a white-dial and a black-dial silver-tone reference.
  • Submariner — Dive watch, 41 mm, with a sixty-minute bezel, in no-date, black-dial, green-insert and two-tone references.
  • Datejust — Calendar watch with a fluted bezel and a magnified date, in 41 mm and 36 mm references.
  • Explorer — Sports watch, 40 mm, black dial with the 3, 6 and 9 numerals, a smooth bezel, no date and a three-link bracelet.
  • Sky-Dweller — Travel watch, 42 mm, black dial, off-centre twenty-four-hour display, a month indicator beside the hour markers and a fluted command bezel.
  • Yacht-Master 40 — Sports watch, 40 mm, blue dial with a red seconds hand and a bidirectional bezel whose scale is formed by raised polished numerals.
  • All Rolex series — the brand page lists every series in this collection.

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