Okay, why would anyone do this?

[By-Tor]

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.

[iflylow78]

i personally like it -

[By-Tor]

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.

[mrandazzo]

It's not even nice.... I mean...it's crap!!

How can someone find it good looking?

[alligoat]

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!

[JohnG]

Would Rolex recognize this as gen?

[tmg]

  alligoat said:

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.

[docblackrock]

  By-Tor said:

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.

[docblackrock]

Ha ha TMG, you and your damn itchy trigger finger beating me to the punch - still great minds think alike

[southcoast68]

  toomuchgear said:

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.

[Chino]

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?

[freddy333]

  By-Tor said:

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

[b16a2]

Argghh...it rmeinds me of the ltd ed Superocean Heritiage (white dial and green bezel)

[magagne]

Not my cup of tea. Sorry.

White dial, I still prefer the explorer II with the simple static bezel, all SS finished.

[highoeyazmuhudee]

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

[tmg]

  docblackrock said:

Ha ha TMG, you and your damn itchy trigger finger beating me to the punch - still great minds think alike

[fakemaster]

I love people who take the time to create things. As horrifying as they might be.