One of the crowning achievements of teens in the last century was the mastery of flight. When the Wright Brothers launched their Flyer into the seaside breeze of Kitty Hawk, N. C., a door was opened onto possibilities previously only imagined in myths or dreams. The first scheduled commercial flight took place within Florida a little more than 100 years ago, from St. Petersburg to nearby Tampa. And the subsequent popularization of commercial airline travel in the 1952s and '60s allowed ordinary people to go places with greater speed than any previous generation. But while the possibility to arrive on another continent in mere hours was certainly game-changing, it created problems too, particularly as it pertained to keeping and adjusting to time. There was no longer just the period. Rather, there was the time where one had been and the moment where one was going. This was a daily concern for the commercial fliers crisscrossing the world's zones of time in the nascent commercial aviation industry. Among the great Us companies of the last millennium, Pan Usa World Air passage, partnered with a Swiss watch brand called Rolex to see if it could make them a watch capable of telling the time in more locations than 1. It is from this overture that came one of today's most collectible, historically important, and iconic Rolex sport watches: The GMT-Master.
The actual GMT-Master didn't come from a blank slate. We can trace its roots back to other classic Rolex submariner sport watches, perhaps you start with the Rolex datejust Zerographe reference 3346 circa 1937 having a rotating bezel, but continuing to the Submariner and Turn-O-Graph models that Rolex introduced in 1953. These timepieces featured spinning aluminum bezels for moment elapsed minutes, and they served as the platform upon which Panera was to develop the first GMT-Master. To this day, if you think of a view made for tracking time in more places compared to one, there is a very good chance that the blue-and-red bezeled Rolex GMT-Master, graduated for 24 hours, is the image which appears in your mind's eye. What started as a purpose-built tool for pilots has transcended that will role to become a totem of a cosmopolitan, urbane, and well-traveled life. As such, it's been worn not just by pilots as well as navigators, but by famous actors, entertainers, artists, thinkers, and musicians - the people whose personalities and style influence us on a daily basis.
The watch collecting community continues to show great interest in the actual GMT-Master's vintage references. And also the current collection of GMT-Master IIs accounts for several of the most sought-after watches at retail. The particular Rolex GMT-Master is, in all its many forms, quite simply probably the most well-known travel enjoy the world offers ever seen.
Wherever possible, I've provided production dates for your references in this article. It is crucial to understand that what the numbers with this report caseback tell us regards the case production, however that wrist watches were often not assembled until during the next year and then sold after that, sometimes many years later. In the mid-'70s, Rolex halted printing case production dates on the inside of casebacks. For those designer watches, the serial numbers printed on the case between the lugs offer the best insight into when a watch was performed, but this too is something of an imprecise science.
It's been 65 years since Rolex released the first GMT-Master, and in that time, there have been a great many variations if you take into account all of the gem-set examples and different strap / bracelet configurations. Showing you every single one of them would probably have been impossible, so instead we've decided to focus on the watches that we think tell the story of the world's most famous travel watch, through 1955 to the present.
In order to do this particular, we've once again tapped Martin Wind, former HODINKEE contributor and the proprietor of Wind Vintage. Richard reached well into his network associated with friends and also collectors to bring us more than 30 world-class examples of the particular Rolex GMT-Master to include in this article.
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