Rolex GMT-MASTER II Coke Stainless Steel "Fat Lady" Ref. 16760
DETAILS
Manufacturer: Rolex
Model: GMT-MASTER II
Reference Number: 16760
Movement: Automatic
Condition: Very good
Gender: Men’s/unisex
Time Period: 1987-1988
Retail / Compare-At Price: n/a collector's item
Our Best Price: $13,250
CALIBER
Movement: -
Caliber: 3085
Jewels: 27
CASE
Case Material: Stainless steel
Case Diameter: 40 mm
Thickness: 12.6 mm
Waterproof: 330 ft. / 100 m.
Water Resistance: 10 ATM
Material Bezel: Stainless steel black and red painted with GMT bi-directional rotatable 24-hour timing bezel with raised Arabic numerals
Glass: Sapphire crystal
Dial: Black
Dial Numerals: White gold with luminescent Superluminova coating dot hour indices, railway track minute/seconds scale around the outer rim
BRACELET / STRAP
Bracelet color: Stainless steel
Bracelet Material: Stainless steel three-piece flat links Oyster band ref. 93150 - 501 end links
Clasp: Oysterlock folding
Clasp material: Stainless steel
FUNCTIONS
24-hour Hand, date, GMT hand, hacking seconds, hand winding, independently-adjustable 12-hour Hand, date window at 3 o'clock with instant date change, 42-hour power reserve
OTHERS
Round shape polished and brushed three-body case
18K white gold applied and Superluminova luminescent Mercedes hours hand, stick-shaped white gold and luminous minutes hand, red and luminous arrow-shaped seconds hand
Quick-set-date (24-hour hand)
Bi-directional rotatable 24-hour graduated with Arabic numeral indexes every 2 hours
Bidirectional self-winding via Perpetual rotor
Stainless steel screw-down solid case back
Stainless steel Twinlock waterproofness system screw-down crown with Rolex logo
Paramagnetic blue Parachrom hairspring
Stainless steel downturned lugs
Cyclops lens over the date
The caliber 3085 is a certified Swiss chronometer, a designation reserved for high-precision watches that have successfully passed the Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute (COSC) tests. It is fitted with a Parachrom hairspring, offering greater resistance to shocks and to temperature variations.
This mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 28,800 vph (4Hz).
This model ref. 16760 was launched in 1983 and was the first instance of GMT-Master II, featuring for the first time a 24-hour hand that can be set independently from the traditional 12-hour hand.
Here are the new features of the GMT-Master II compare to the GMT-Master:
- The GMT-Master II has the ability to display three time zones simultaneously as opposed to two
- independent setting of the GMT hand for the first time in a GMT-Master model
- thicker case
- white gold index surrouders
- dubbed "Fat Lady" because of its extra fat case in order to host the new caliber 3085
- tritrium indexes
- large crown guards
You might hear the ref. 16760 referred to as the “Sophia Loren", the "Fat Lady" or the "Coke".
This model was then replaced by the ref. 16710 in 1989 featuring a new, but identical functioning caliber and a slimmer design.
In 2007 the ref. 16710 was then replaced by ref. 116710 that is still in production today.
Despite the fact that the GMT-Master II was launched in 1983, the GMT-Master was produced until 1999 for financial reasons (less expensive).
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