Rolex GMT Master Archived and in an age when

and in an age when mankind contains the sum total of human knowledge in devices that fit in our pockets

validated through Central Watch

which did not allow for independent adjusting of the 24-hour hand

Synchron caseback and Synchron-signed crown

and in 1870 Jules Racine Sr manufactured pocket watches under the family name

Rolex GMT Master Archived and in an age whenWith the advent of the first transcontinental flight in 1953, the pilots of Pan American Airways required a watch that could tell two timezones simultaneously. As the story goes, they approached Rolex, and in short order the Rolex GMT (as in Greenwich Mean Time) Master was born. The name is a bold declaration of what Rolex intended the watch to be: a true master of the skies. That first reference of GMT Master, the Reference 6542, was essentially a