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GMT-Master II (Meteorite Dial)

Name: Rolex GMT-Master II (Meteorite Dial)
Brand: Rolex
SKU: 126719BLRO
Price: 43000 USD
Availability: InStock

Ref. 126719BLRO

$43,000 · AED 157,900

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Case40mm 18k white gold

DialMeteorite, applied markers

MovementCalibre 3285

BraceletWhite gold

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The GMT-Master II was built for Pan Am crews in 1955 to hold two time zones at a glance, and its two colour bezels became a collector language of their own. It remains the travel watch by which all others navigate.

This Rolex GMT-Master II wears a 40mm 18k white gold case with a meteorite, applied markers face. Calibre 3285 keeps it running.

Fun fact: A gold GMT-Master II is a jet pilot watch dressed for dinner. The 24 hour hand still tracks a second time zone, which is exactly why the model existed: Pan Am asked Rolex for it in 1954.

White gold Pepsi with a meteorite face

Reference126719BLRO

Case40mm 18k white gold, red and blue Cerachrom bezel

MovementRolex calibre 3285, automatic, about 70 hours

Introduced2018, meteorite dial from 2019

Why this one matters

Rolex brought the red and blue bezel back in ceramic in 2014, in white gold only. A two colour Cerachrom insert is difficult to produce, and the 2014 launch was the first time Rolex had managed it. That watch, 116719BLRO, was replaced in 2018 by 126719BLRO: 40mm white gold again, on the revised case, with the new calibre 3285 and a choice of Oyster or Jubilee bracelet. The meteorite dial was added in 2019.

Meteorite dials are cut from a slice of an iron meteorite and then etched so the crystalline Widmanstätten figure comes up. The grain runs differently through every slice, so the way the pattern falls is particular to each dial. Rolex has used the material on and off since the 1990s, almost always in precious metal references rather than steel.

The movement

Calibre 3285 arrived in 2018 with the new generation GMT-Master II and took over from the 3186. It uses the Chronergy escapement in nickel phosphorus, a blue Parachrom hairspring and Paraflex shock settings, and it runs roughly 70 hours off the wrist. Rolex rates it to within 2 seconds a day once cased. The local hour hand jumps in one hour steps without disturbing the minutes or seconds, and the 24-hour hand read against the rotating bezel gives a third zone.

On the wrist

At 40mm in white gold on a solid gold bracelet, the weight is the first thing you notice, and it stays noticeable in the heat. The case reads as steel from a metre away, which is the point for a lot of buyers here: the bezel does the talking and the metal stays quiet. The dial changes with the light, flat in shade and busy in sun.

Questions we are asked about this reference

Is a meteorite dial delicate?

The slice is iron based, so it does not tolerate moisture. Take the water resistance seriously, have the case pressure tested at service, and do not leave it open on a bench. In normal wear it behaves like any other dial.

Why do you see far fewer white gold Pepsis than steel ones?

The ceramic Pepsi was white gold only for four years, from 2014 until the steel 126710BLRO arrived in 2018. Precious metal references are also understood to be made in far smaller numbers, and the price gap between the two is wide, so the white gold version turns up much less often.

Oyster or Jubilee on this reference?

Both were offered in white gold. The Jubilee drapes and disguises some of the weight, the Oyster feels more solid and squarer on the wrist. It is a comfort question rather than a value one.

GMT-Master II

A 24-hour bezel and a second time zone, a Rolex line running since 1955

The GMT-Master arrived in 1955 and was adopted by the flight crews of Pan American World Airways, reading a second zone from a 24-hour hand against a rotating 24-hour bezel. The GMT-Master II followed in 1982, its local hour hand adjusted in one-hour increments independently of the other hands and without stopping the watch, so the watch shows two zones at once and a third when the bezel is turned. It was the first Rolex fitted with a Cerachrom ceramic bezel insert, introduced in 2005, the two-colour versions made as a single piece and offered in a range of colour pairings. The line runs in Oystersteel, yellow and Everose Rolesor and solid gold, on the Oyster or Jubilee bracelet.

24-hour bezel and fourth hand

two-colour Cerachrom inserts

crown guards, screw down crown

Oyster or Jubilee bracelet

Sizes in the family

40 mm across the current line

Who it suits

For the buyer who genuinely keeps a second time zone and wants one watch that travels without changing character.

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