I accept to accept that it was rather hasty to see Rolex absolution a red and dejected bowl bezel adaptation of the GMT-Master II (ref. 116710 BLNR) just one year afterwards they appear a dejected and atramentous adaptation of the aforementioned watch. Indeed, as sales in Rolex food for the Batman'GMT-Master II ref. 116710BLNR are still hot, Rolex goes advanced and completes their mission of animating the bezel with the new for 2014 Ref. 116719 BLRO with a absolutely dejected and red GMT bezel.
In a faculty this new watch is a adherence to the aboriginal GMT-Master alarm from 1955. We covered the watch if discussing our history of the Rolex Oyster Professional watch and explained how Rolex was backward to the adventurous with a pilot watch, but formed with Pan American (Pan Am) airline pilots to advance a alarm for their needs. The red and dejected segments of the bezel are meant to act (more or less) as an AM/PM day/night indicator, but the ablaze colors aswell happened to be rather distinctive.
Eventually Rolex came out with the adapted GMT-Master II that retained the dejected and red blush tones for the bezel, but aswell added added colors as able-bodied over the years. In about 2007 Rolex chock-full bearing the Pepsi bezel (as it is generally known) and a bit afterwards Rolex confused all GMT-Master II accumulating watches to accept Cerachrom bowl bezels. Bowl as a actual was acutely an advance over the earlier aluminum bezels if it came out in 2008 but it would yield a few years afore Rolex was able to aftermath bezels in a blush added than atramentous or blue.
Rolex again added blooming with a adaptation of the Submariner Date in 2010, and in 2013 appear the aboriginal anytime two-tone bowl bezel for the GMT-Master II. The above addition there was to actualize a individual section of bowl with two colors. The action is complicated and involves a array of allure affable abracadabra during the bowl sintering process. Can you assumption what blush the bezel starts out as afore the baking process?
It is in fact green. The abject bowl actual begins activity as a breakable blooming ring which if broiled shrinks and becomes red. The all red bezel is again chemically advised on the bisected of the apparent that will eventually become blue. The completed sintering action distinctively developed by Rolex afterwards years of balloon and absurdity after-effects in a red and dejected bezel, with an impressively adventurous set of colors that has a absolute bound amid the two colors. It is absolutely a ablaze effect, and no one but Rolex can appear abutting to bearing annihilation like it in bulk.
So just one year afterwards the dejected and atramentous adaptation of the GMT-Master II comes a dejected and red version. Clearly, Rolex has been blame for a acknowledgment to a dejected and red GMT bezel for a while, and accustomed the complication of alive with bowl colors I am afflicted at how almost abbreviate it took them. The absolute catechism is whether humans who purchased (or will purchase) a ref. 116710 BLNR accept annihilation to be agitated about.
It is simple to deduce that the atramentous and dejected adaptation was a center mark to the red and dejected model, but I anticipate it is absolutely just addition flavor. If the dejected and atramentous GMT came out, Rolex acutely knew that it had a dejected and red archetypal in the works. For them, it was an adeptness to appear out aboriginal with the world' aboriginal two-tone bowl bezel, and again a year after to chase up with the world's aboriginal red and dejected bowl bezel. In fact, it is aswell the aboriginal time anyone has produced commercially accessible red bowl in a watch.
Hublot technically appear the aboriginal watch with red bowl with the Classic Fusion Skeleton Tourbillon for OnlyWatch 2013, but it was a one-off section and the actual was never put into any commercially accessible product. So Rolex does accept them exhausted in that regard. Nevertheless, even if Hublot (or addition brand) awash red ceramic, none of them would appear even abutting to Rolex's composure if it comes to bearing bowl parts–which is a admixture of art and science as it is a aerial process. Again, the account of bowl is both abidingness of the blush (it wont fade) as able-bodied as the abiding scratch-resistance backdrop of the harder actual.
Aside from the new dejected and red bezel there isn't annihilation new about this adaptation of the GMT-Master II watch. It retains the 40mm advanced case admeasurement and centralized fabricated Rolex ability 3186 automated COSC Chronometer certified movement. This is of advance a actual accepted design, is on par with the Submariner a part of Rolex's a lot of adapted action watches.
I haven't broached conceivably the a lot of arguable aspect on the GMT-Master II ref. 116719 BLRO watch and that is the case material. If you are allurement yourself how anyone can accomplish a accommodation amid the red and dejected or dejected and atramentous bezel adaptation of the GMT-Master II, the acknowledgment is traveling to be the price. While the ref. 116710 BLNR comes in steel, this 2014 116719 BLRO is offered alone in 18k white gold. For some humans that little section of account hits like a bite because there is so abundant “want” in this new Pepsi punch watch but ample amount as well. Rolex has fabricated one of history's a lot of accepted GMT watches something actual absolute this year. The acumen of advance is simple. First of all the dejected and red bowl bezel is still difficult to aftermath in quantity, and additional because as you know, they just appear a dejected and atramentous adaptation in animate endure year.
Posing the catechism of “will this watch be accessible in animate in the future to Rolex unsurprisingly after-effects in no apparent response. We abide to accept that Rolex advises the CIA on clandestineness training. Having said that, accustomed history and what makes sense, it is absolutely accessible that in several years this GMT-Master II or a adaptation like it (with some accessory changes) will be accessible in steel. For now, the admirable new Rolex Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master II ref. 116719 BLRO watch will retail for 36,500 Swiss Francs and will be accessible in the Fall of 2014.
