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Rolex and Blancpain were neck in neck in releasing the first dive with rotating bezels. However, when in 1953 Rolex put an external diving bezel on a more robust version of their already famously water-resistant Oyster Perpetual, kept the automatic winding in place, and added a sturdy adjustable bracelet, the most iconic and important dive watch in history was born.

It wasn’t really until the 1980s, however, that the Sub became the fashionable item it is now, largely due to preppy folks sporting them as an assertion of an fake watches active lifestyle that, more likely, revolved around cocktails at the yacht club. Alas, tool perfect replica watches became fashion items during this decade, and the rest is horological history.

Rolex understood that their had ascended from tool to jewel, and so fake rolex gold, two-tone, and even diamond-encrusted versions cropped up during the decade of materialism. Today, however, it’s the plain steel models that are impossible to come by at retail, and which sell for as much as 25 percent above retail among enthusiasts, while gold models often sit in the display case awaiting adoption. It’s a strange phenomenon, but people around the world are clamoring for steel Subs.

When Pan American Airlines ruled the trans-Atlantic skies in the 1950s, Rolex designed the GMT Master for their pilots, who needed to track multiple time zones simultaneously. In 1989, the Crown upgraded to  a new movement and slimmer case turned out to be big hits as steel and gold models asserted a pitch-perfect jet setting attitude. Plenty of folks knew to rock a Rolex Submariner for maximum panache, but rocking a GMT Master II was a slyly stylish move that demonstrated the owner’s uniqueness. To this day, the GMT Master II emits a reserved eccentricity.

In 2007 Rolex put out improved high quality Rolex GMT Master II super clone watches with ceramic bezel and a new movement that hosted a suite of replica horloges nederland modern updates. Since then, it’s been all about metal and color combos, which are judiciously and painfully released at a rate of about one a year, at best. 2022, however, saw a rather unexpected model featuring a left-handed orientation and hitherto unknown colorway of black and green for its bezel.