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ExpII dial in a GMT Master. Blasphemy! :D

PS: The watch is gen without a doubt, I can easily see that from the SELs and case.

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You should be quite confident of your skills to start breaking up 2 gen Rolexes and swapping the things in them. :D

PS: They made the original GMT (the one without cg's) with white dial. It's among the most sought after gens out there.

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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

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for now the Alpha's as close as I can get!

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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

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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.

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You should be quite confident of your skills to start breaking up 2 gen Rolexes and swapping the things in them. :D

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 :drool:

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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.

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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.

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He probably had them switch the dial since the ExpII 1655 dial was too confusing to read :D . I like the vintage ExpII a lot, but I always did think the dial was too busy.

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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?

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