This listing is for a Rolex GMT-Master II Blue/Black New in Box with papers. Warranty dated October 2015 until 2020.
Although the Rolex GMT-Master was designed essentially for professional use, its combination of peerless functionality and rugged good looks has attracted a wider travelling public. As well as appreciating its ability to display different time zones, these travellers admire the robustness and versatile appearance that make the GMT-Master eminently suitable for globetrotting and, indeed, for any occasion.
Rolex uses 904L stainless steel for its steel watch cases. 904L is mainly used in the high technology, aerospace and chemical industries, where maximum resistance to corrosion is essential. A superalloy, 904L is extremely resistant and highly polishable. It maintains its beauty even in the harshest environments.
The dial is the distinctive face of a Rolex watch, the feature most responsible for its identity and readability. Characterised by hour markers fashioned from 18 ct gold to prevent tarnishing, every Rolex dial is designed and manufactured in-house, largely by hand to ensure perfection.
The dial is the distinctive face of a Rolex watch, the feature most responsible for its identity and readability. Characterised by hour markers fashioned from 18 ct gold to prevent tarnishing, every Rolex dial is designed and manufactured in-house, largely by hand to ensure perfection.
The Oyster bracelet is a perfect alchemy of form and function, aesthetics and technology, designed to be both robust and comfortable. It is equipped with an Oysterlock folding clasp, which prevents accidental opening and the Easylink comfort extension link, also exclusive to Rolex. This ingenious system allows the wearer to increase the bracelet length by approximately 5 mm, providing additional comfort in any circumstance.
The GMT-Master II is equipped with calibre 3186, a self-winding mechanical movement entirely developed and manufactured by Rolex. In addition to the conventional hour, minute and seconds hands, it features a 24-hour hand to display a second time zone. Like all Rolex Perpetual movements, the 3186 is a certified Swiss chronometer, a designation reserved for high-precision watches that have successfully passed the Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute (COSC) tests. The 3186 is equipped with a Parachrom hairspring, offering greater resistance to shocks and to temperature variations. Its architecture, in common with all Oyster watch movements, makes it singularly reliable.
In addition to conventional hour, minute and seconds hands, the GMT-Master II features an arrow-tipped hand, which circles the dial once every 24 hours, as well as a bidirectional rotatable 24-hour graduated bezel. The distinctively coloured 24-hour hand displays the “home” reference time in a first time zone which can be read on the graduations on the bezel. The traveller’s local time is easily set by “jumping” from hour to hour, thanks to an ingenious mechanism operated via the winding crown: the hour hand can be adjusted forwards or backwards independently of the minute and seconds hands. This allows travellers to adapt to their new time zone without affecting the precision of their timekeeping.
MODEL CASE | Oyster, 40 mm, steel |
OYSTER ARCHITECTURE | Monobloc middle case, screw-down case back and winding crown |
DIAMETER | 40 mm |
MATERIAL | 904L steel |
BEZEL | Bidirectional rotatable 24-hour graduated bezel. Two-colour blue and black Cerachrom insert in ceramic, engraved numerals and graduations |
WINDING CROWN | Screw-down, Triplock triple waterproofness system |
CRYSTAL | Scratch-resistant sapphire, Cyclops lens over the date |
WATER-RESISTANCE | Waterproof to 100 metres / 330 feet |
MOVEMENT | Perpetual, mechanical, self-winding, GMT function |
CALIBRE | 3186, Manufacture Rolex |
PRECISION | -2/+2 sec/day, after casing |
FUNCTIONS | Centre hour, minute and seconds hands. 24-hour display. Second time zone with independent rapid-setting of the hour hand. Instantaneous date. Stop-seconds for precise time setting |
OSCILLATOR | Paramagnetic blue Parachrom hairspring |
WINDING | Bidirectional self-winding via Perpetual rotor |
POWER RESERVE | Approximately 48 hours |
BRACELET | Oyster, flat three-piece links |
BRACELET MATERIAL | 904L steel |
CLASP | Folding Oysterlock safety clasp with Easylink 5 mm comfort extension link |
DIAL | Black |
Superlative Chronometer (COSC + Rolex certification after casing)