{"id":1837,"date":"2015-01-27T15:08:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T20:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2023-11-01T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T20:11:51","slug":"the-rolex-gmt-master-ii-on-oyster-bracelet-a-brief-historyrolexwatchbands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/the-rolex-gmt-master-ii-on-oyster-bracelet-a-brief-historyrolexwatchbands\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rolex GMT Master II Watch, a Brief History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rolex GMT Master II\u00a0Watch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the ground up, Rolex\u2019s GMT Master II<\/strong> 116710 series has risen to very high places with the most accurate of timing, literally.<\/p>\n

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GMT Master II Watch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Originating in collaboration with Rolex and Pan Am Airways for aviates use when embarking on long-distance journeys as a traveling navigation chronometer, the GMT Master was born. GMT is the acronym for Greenwich Mean Time, or better yet what is known as Universal Coordinated Time, or UTC today. Acknowledged as the global time standard, GMT is used for aviation planning, weather forecasts, schedules, and much much more.<\/p>\n

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GMT Master vs. GMT Master II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Historically the GMT Master is the first Rolex to present a cerachrom bezel in the design, and although the GMT Master II debuted in the early 1980s, production of the original model continued until the 1990s. Allowing that the GMT Master and the GMT Master II may appear the same, the GMT Master II has been equipped with a different movement capable of having an adjustable autonomous quickset hour hand, although the watch straps<\/em> are the same in design. \u00a0This feature is used to set to local time without disrupting the minutes and 24-hour GMT hand.<\/p>\n

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GMT Master II Watch\u00a0Strap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recently undergoing an array of technical changes in 2005, the revamped GMT Master II now features the para chrome hairspring and triblock crown commonly used in diving watches, has a larger case, hands, and hour markers as well as a new bezel crafted out of tough ceramic material fashioned to be more scratch and fade resistant. Additionally, now the GMT Master II watch band<\/i>\u00a0has heavier solid links and a machined Rolex<\/em>\u00a0Oyster clasp<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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GMT Master II Watch\u00a0Band<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Running on a perpetual mechanical self-winding movement, the GMT Master II watch<\/em>\u00a0measures out to a 40mm diameter oyster case<\/i>, has a watch band<\/em> made out of steel, a screw-down triblock waterproofness system, is water-resistant up to 100 meters\/330 feet, has a center hour, minute, seconds, and as already mentioned 24 hours forth hand complication, precisely joined to the same time zone as the standard 12-hour hand. Additionally, this model features an instantaneous date with a cyclops lens, stop-seconds for accurate time setting, and bears the Officially Certified Swiss Chronometer seal. Thanks to the convenient graduated bidirectional rotating ceramic bezel, a third-time zone can be set as well.<\/p>\n

All-steel models are available in Black Cerachrom with a matching steel watch band<\/em>, or in Blue and Black Cerachrom with a matching steel watch strap.\u00a0<\/em>For a change, the\u00a0Rolex Watch Strap\u00a0<\/em>can be substituted with a watch band<\/em> made out of rubber. Try the watch strap<\/em><\/a>\u00a0for the watch band<\/em> line by Rubber B<\/a>\u00a0specifically made for the GMT Master II Watch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Rolex GMT Master II\u00a0Watch Strap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whether you\u2019re in the congo or anywhere else in the world, be the master of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the ground up, Rolex\u2019s GMT Master II 116710 series has risen to very high places with the most accurate of timing, literally. Originating in collaboration with Rolex and Pan Am Airways for aviates use when embarking on long-distance journeys as a traveling navigation chronometer, the GMT Master was born. GMT is the acronym for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_965142119634467_129078757170083":"","twitter_1583341160_1583341160":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[398,401,402,1233,45,12,383,397,53,399,400,8,351,311],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rolex-watch","tag-gmt-master-ii","tag-luxury-strap-for-rolex","tag-luxury-straps-for-rolex","tag-rolex","tag-rolex-band","tag-rolex-bracelet","tag-rolex-clasp","tag-rolex-gmt-master","tag-rolex-gmt-master-ii","tag-rolex-gmt-master-ii-watch","tag-rolex-gmt-master-strap","tag-rolex-watch-bands","tag-watch-band","tag-watch-strap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30117,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/30117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}