At Watches and Wonders 2025, in Geneva, Switzerland Rolex launched its first-ever dial product of high-tech ceramic.
Provided in a left-hand crown mannequin, the most recent GMT-Grasp II (Ref. 126729 VTNR) includes a 40 mm diameter 18K white gold case with an Oyster bracelet, a inexperienced and black Cerachrom bezel insert, and an identical inexperienced Cerachrom dial.
“The brand new Cerachrom dial – created in the identical method as dials in pure stone, by becoming a disc of fabric onto a brass plate – shows the identical shade of inexperienced because the decrease half of the two-color inexperienced and black Cerachrom bezel insert that frames the watch face. This excellent tonal concord, which stays true beneath all lighting circumstances, is achieved through the use of the identical kind of ceramic to supply each components,” says Rolex
Rolex automated caliber 3285 (launched in 2018) powers the hours, minutes, central seconds, date (with Cyclops), and the namesake 24-hour format GMT hour hand for as much as 70 hours as soon as totally wound. Every motion is COSC-certified then cased up and adjusted to an accuracy stage of -2/+2 second per day earlier than leaving the issue as Superlative Licensed (like all Rolexes).
The GMT-Grasp II has a “flyer” GMT and the native 12-hour hand might be independently set. You possibly can show the time in two time zones: native time (12-hour hand) and residential time (24-hour hand), and the date is synchronized with the native time.
Outfitted with a Trilock screw-down crown and a screw-in caseback, the GMT-Grasp II is waterproof to a depth of 100 meters.
The GMT-Grasp II 126729 VTNR is delivered with an Oyster bracelet and Oysterlock folding security clasp that forestalls unintended opening. It additionally provides an Easylink consolation extension hyperlink that lets the wearer alter the size by roughly 5 mm. On this GMT-Grasp II, the bracelet contains patent ceramic inserts to reinforce flexibility and longevity.
For many who choose a left-hand crown, can afford and are prepared to pay a big premium for 18K white gold, and who just like the inexperienced ceramic bezel and dial mixture, this model of the GMT-Grasp II is bound to face out from all the opposite GMT-Grasp IIs.
The GMT-Grasp II (Ref. 126729 VTNR) retail worth is roughly $50,000. Be taught extra at Rolex.
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