A SUPERB ROLEX GMT: THE 1675

Today we bring you a really awesome vintage timepiece!

It no more than a beautiful Rolex GMT Master “Pepsi” 1675, and why now you may ask?

If you’ve explored our website, more specifically our “SHOP” category, you can notice a more in-depth attention to the vintage markets, although it's a already smoother market than it was, for instance, in 2010.

And when it comes to vintage timepieces I wanted to pay a little more attention to market necessities and its state and also explore this beautiful community that’s starting to conquer my heart and tastes.

A few weeks back I was enjoying a couple of days “off the grid” when Alex, our photographer discovered an individual that was selling watches on his city (quite a small city where everybody knows each other).

But, for my surprise, after Alex telling me a couple info about some of the nice vintage and modern timepieces that this individual had, Alex told me that in the middle of this vintage watches this person had a awesome GMT 1675 with full papers, documents, box..you name it!

I started to like the phone call.

And this is what brought us to today’s article, with an exclusive photoshoot and info about this nice vintage.

Let’s start by the beginning of the gmt master!

THE FATHER OF ALL GMT’S

The Rolex GMT was designed as a aviators watch, a aspect quite logic as its aesthetics tell us.

Designed in the 50’s to answer a growing necessity for a watch that could keep two time zones, since at the time airplanes were being able to travel bigger distances and this resulted on crossing multiple time zones.

Rolex, developed in collaboration with Pan Am this new model that later would be called GMT (as for Greenwich Main Time).

In 1972 pilots no longer used the GMT but instead the UTC, that stands for Coordinated Universal Time.

The base for the GMT was a simple Turn-o-graph (Ref.6202) then updated to the Ref.6542, a model with no crown guards, that introduced a new two tone bezel (color scheme now called “Pepsi” by most of the community).

In the first years of production of this amazing ref.6542 (that who owns one by now i'm surely it notices a cool tropical dia and a cool luminous bezel) had a bakelite dial, that as you might know, it's a very likely to crack material so in 1956 it got the bakelite replaced by bezels made in metal.

It had also a modified mechanism ( calibers 1036 (1954-1959), 1065 (1957-1959), 1066 (1957-1959) ).

THE ONE THIS ARTICLE IS ALL ABOUT

The next ref. released of the GMT Master is the one we are here to talk about, the 1675.

The 1675 introduced the crown guards, that now look quite thin and small, compared with the modern GMT’s, the 116710.

With the ref came two new calibers, the 1565 and the 1575, a chapter ring, two new dials, a gloss and a matte dial.

So we can now notice a really good advance on its overall design, that leads me into thinking that due to its release date it's now one of the most beautiful GMT’s out there.

WHY IS THIS MY FAVORITE REF?

This 1675 is from 1967, this means it holds the most precise caliber of this ref, the 1575 that runs on a 19600A/h frequency.

But that's not all!

This ref has a matte dial, which I believe it makes a better tropical tone when aged correctly and it also has the white printings, once more perfect to be a better vintage in my humble opinion.

It’s a surprisingly well wearable timepiece, and, once again, for a guy who recently discovered a true passion for vintage that it's noticeable for my will to write about it, it may seem like I’m overreacting about this one but I’m not!

Another fact about my big appreciation for this specific ref characteristics is the one that it has all the papers, box, documents, even the Rolex store bags and pouches!

Hope you enjoyed reading this article!

Be free to ask, suggest or even talk about anything if you want with me.

Sincerely yours,

Diogo Costa

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