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It's not engraved Poley on the Rehaut it's Rolex But I don't like these engravings too, also on a Gen Sub

As ever, its all a question of taste. I bought the 42,5mm Version in the past but it has no wrist time so I sold it. The design is ok but nothing special and you are right the SMP is the nicer watch.

I see discussion moves on @ Ubi yours looks great, fantastic job as allways. Come on guys this is the first time we can get a Sub with gen bezel assembly that's a huge improvement for me. We discussed the Rehaut fault on Subs to death, on this one its perfect in my opinion. That we can fit gen parts easily is also an improvement. The engraved Rehaut bothers me also but I can say its no much visible with naked Eye. When I get the new Cases with non engraved Rehaut, I wil make a new Review with fitting the Gen Parts. Keep you updated soon.

No sorry

Yes there I found the article

I take a bunch of them a and take a look for 16800 Dials

ARGH a Gen 16600

eThe early Rolex GMT-Master Rene-Paul Jeanneret was one of the most important executives at Rolex Geneva in the company's most fruitful period, the 1950s and 60s. His official title was that of Public Relations Director; but he was so much more than that, he involved himself in many aspects of the company's activities including inventing watches; although his name appears on none of the Rolex patents from that period. An active sportsman in many fields including skiing and the newly introduced skin diving; in the early 1950s he came up with the concept of "tool" watches. This was the idea of a watch specifically designed for practitioners of an individual sport or activity. The results of this concept appeared on the Rolex stand at the 1954 Basle Watch Fair in three forms; the Explorer for sportsmen, the Submariner for divers and the Turn-O-Graph for businessmen. The watches all proved to be great successes and so it was no surprise when the world's largest airline Pan-Am wanted a watch that would enable their pilots to keep track of time in two locations; it was to Jeanneret that they turned. Working in conjunction with Pan-Am.'s Captain Frederick Libby (a decorated World War II veteran and one of the airlines most respected navigators), Jeanneret came up with the idea of a watch with an additional hour hand revolving just once every 24 hours and a rotatable bezel marked with those same 24 hours. The watch itself was a typical Rolex product, it was simply a regular 6202 "Turn-O-Graph" with a different bezel and the 1030 movement normally fitted to Turn-O-Graphs had an additional 24 hour driving wheel and a calendar disk; this, and the fact that the movement was now chronometer certified, allowed Rolex to give the movement a new reference number, 1065. The external look of the watch was very similar to the contemporary Turn-O-Graph and Submariner; it was still quite a slim watch and without the crown protecting "shoulders", looked considerably smaller than the current model: GMT Master ref.6542 with original plastic insert (photo: OreDelMondo) The GMT Master was also important in that it was one of the first Rolex model to feature the new "Cyclops" lens from the introduction of the watch as an optional feature. These first GMT models (ref. 6542) are immediately recognised by the bright plastic bezel insert. This plastic bezel insert was the first item to be changed in 1956, giving way to a metal insert with the numbers now screen-printed. These new bezels were less likely to crack than the earlier plastic ones but were much more likely to fade in bright sunlight. It was always assumed that the reason Rolex quit using plastic bezel inserts on the 6542 GMT Master was due to their inherent fragility. However, recently discovered documents finally tell the REAL story and also go a long way to explaining why the early ones HAD plastic inserts, then metal inserts were used for around a 1 year period but the late 6542 watches had plastic ones: the original plastic bezel inserts were luminous and it seems that the tritium used to paint them had somehow become contaminated with Strontium 90. So the metal inserts were only fitted during the period when Rolex had to fix the radioactive contamination issue. Once the problem was solved, Rolex deliverd the documents shown below with every watch: Boxcard and sticker stating that the watch bezels were now radiation-safe Due to Pan-Am.'s ever increasing fleet of Boeing 707s the vast majority of the early watches produced went to the company, each plane had a Pilot, a First Officer and a Navigator all of whom were issued with GMT Masters and Pan-Am had several hundred crews all issued with a company GMT Master. These watches bore no company logo; no "Property of" markings and no special dials, apart from one strange bunch of 100+ watches made in 1958 especially to solve a problem inside the airline's Chrysler Building head office (they did not move to the new Pan-Am building until the early 1960s). The problem was simply that as the watches arrived in the head office before being sent off to the field offices for issue to the flight crew, they would be requisitioned by senior management who felt that they, rather than the flight crews, were the ones who deserved a new company Rolex. This happened on a regular basis until one day Juan Trippe, the mercurial head of Pan-Am glimpsed one of the watches on the wrist of an executive and wanted to know why it was not on the wrist of a pilot. The situation was explained to him; the pilots had everything, the gold braid, the titles, and the brand new Boeing jets and now they even got great watches. The executives felt shunned, they saw themselves as the basis of the company's success but were fed up of being treated as second class citizens. Trippe did not like the situation and ordered that all the GMT Masters in the building should be returned to the operation department for subsequent issue to flight crews. However to mollify the executives Trippe had Rolex manufacture a batch of 100+ GMT Masters solely for the "desk pilots"; these differed from the flight crew (and all other) GMT Masters in that they had white dials. White dialed GMT Master They are believed to be the only GMTs made with this colour dial, the order proved a godsend to Rolex as they made these watches in 1959 with the last of the old model 6542 cases; for the new model was waiting in the wings... ... found on the Net

Nice one

Yes, but engravings look the same (too tall) wish we could the bezel off

Looks like a MBW/MBK 2008 Submariner with gen Bezel assembly. SEL's are similar to the WM9 ones. But I have never seen it with decorated ETA 2836-2 this movement I had in a CN Sub years ago. Let me guess middle Links of the Bracelet are solid?!?

I don't know why I must say it again and again! the Case is the same only difference are the engravings. I handeld both Cases WM9 and Euromariner Case and its all the same.

Go for it. This one has the old big block Roles Case

It seams that also the Dial diameter is too big for a SD. But hard to tell from the Pics. The Bracelet SEL looks like the CN standard ones that where installed on the older CN Subs.

Wow, what a collection

This is my Ultimate BCE upgraded with Lello Datewheel This one has nice double AR

Vintage the MBW hands by your self to match the color of the markers. If you can't do it I can do it for you.

Great looking watch. I like the phantom really.

Nice one looks damn good

Ugly watch

AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH, fantastic watches. The Rep looks really good with the Case from Bobbie. I'm searching for a good Dial so long now but no luck. Really great work, would love to see some detail Pics of your fantastic 16800. Still waiting for the good Case to build mine. I think its the best Submariner ever made from Rolex. Congrats to this nice timepeace.

Fantastic Work... You have some nice watches there

..... and its a Gen Submariner

Yes and [censored] gives a nice brownish color to the markers

This is how it looks with vintage Lume and Varnish