Rolex GMT Master II 16710 specialpricing contained the Lemania caliber

contained the Lemania caliber

There were three watch groups racing to be the first to release an automatic chronograph in the late 1960s

Founded in Le Locle in 1894

Those are great watches

So it's rare indeed for us to find a military watch from World War II

Rolex GMT Master II 16710 specialpricing contained the Lemania caliberAlmost from its inception, the Rolex GMT Master became a runaway or shall we say, flyaway hit, owing largely to its honest aviation pedigree. With the advent of the first transcontinental flight in 1953, the pilots of Pan American Airlines required a watch that could tell two timezones simultaneously. They approached Rolex, and in short order the Rolex GMT (as in Greenwich Mean Time) Master was born, its name a bold declaration of what Rolex intended