By-Tor Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 ExpII dial in a GMT Master. Blasphemy! PS: The watch is gen without a doubt, I can easily see that from the SELs and case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iflylow78 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 i personally like it - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
By-Tor Posted July 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 You should be quite confident of your skills to start breaking up 2 gen Rolexes and swapping the things in them. PS: They made the original GMT (the one without cg's) with white dial. It's among the most sought after gens out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrandazzo Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 It's not even nice.... I mean...it's crap!! How can someone find it good looking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alligoat Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 I kinda like it, too B-T. I'd never split up a couple of gens, but might swap in an Explorer II dial if I had one. I just ordered the Alpha GMT which is very similar, as a play watch: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...A:IT&ih=020 And as you say, my dream would be to build the 6542 with the white desk pilots dial and the black bezel for now the Alpha's as close as I can get! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnG Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Would Rolex recognize this as gen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmg Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 I kinda like it, too B-T And as you say, my dream would be to build the 6542 with the white desk pilots dial and the black bezel for now the Alpha's as close as I can get! I like it too. It's very reminiscent of the white dial 6542 grail watch. There is also this opposite; a Rolex custom GMT dial fitted in a 1655 that was used by Oliver Shepard in the Transglobal Expedition in the late 70's. Look it up on Antiquorum, it sold for $35K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docblackrock Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 You should be quite confident of your skills to start breaking up 2 gen Rolexes and swapping the things in them. PS: They made the original GMT (the one without cg's) with white dial. It's among the most sought after gens out there. Well he wouldn't need TWO gens, just a 16710, an Explorer dial and hand set and it's off to the RSC Indeed, the 'ground crew' Pan-Am GMT 6542 There's also another more modern precedent of inbreeding like this - some mountaineer/adventurer/Ranulph Fiennes-type who asked Rolex to put a fixed Explorer bezel on his GMT 16710. Must dig that Antiquorum article out sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docblackrock Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Ha ha TMG, you and your damn itchy trigger finger beating me to the punch - still great minds think alike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southcoast68 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 I like it too. It's very reminiscent of the white dial 6542 grail watch. There is also this opposite; a Rolex custom GMT dial fitted in a 1655 that was used by Oliver Shepard in the Transglobal Expedition in the late 70's. Look it up on Antiquorum, it sold for $35K. He probably had them switch the dial since the ExpII 1655 dial was too confusing to read . I like the vintage ExpII a lot, but I always did think the dial was too busy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chino Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 if you have the money, time and imagination... why not? it looks very much like a national "tricolor" national-flag-watch. Very colorfull... maybe too much for my taste. let's see the gmt master II in the expII case now... will it look better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 ExpII dial in a GMT Master. Blasphemy! 1 of these were recently posted on TZ. Nice. Here is a little something from my archives that might also be of interest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b16a2 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Argghh...it rmeinds me of the ltd ed Superocean Heritiage (white dial and green bezel) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magagne Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Not my cup of tea. Sorry. White dial, I still prefer the explorer II with the simple static bezel, all SS finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highoeyazmuhudee Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 (edited) i kind of like the contrast, the colors DO compliment each other. NOT as bad as a snow white sub >p a "Panama GMT" i like that...OR ALL American : ) Edited July 18, 2008 by highoeyazmuhudee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmg Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Ha ha TMG, you and your damn itchy trigger finger beating me to the punch - still great minds think alike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakemaster Posted July 19, 2008 Report Share Posted July 19, 2008 I love people who take the time to create things. As horrifying as they might be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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