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2. Rolex GMT Master II - Wikipedia

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   The original GMT Master watch has a 24-hour display fourth hand complication directly linked to and displaying the same time zone as the standard 12-hour hand. This GMT hand enabled the crews to set the watch to GMT or another time zone, and, using the rotatable 24-hour scale bezel, set to the correct offset, a second time zone could be read.

3. 24-hour analog dial - Wikipedia

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   Glycine was the first to feature a 24-hour rotating bezel in 1953 with the Airman No.1 pilot watch. The design became widely known when Rolex designed the Rolex GMT Master for Pan-Am pilots in 1954. A 24-hour watch with a compass card dial can be used to determine direction when set to local noon and used in conjunction with the Sun.

4. Chronograph - Wikipedia

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   A chronograph is a specific type of watch that is used as a stopwatch combined with a display watch. A basic chronograph has hour and minute hands on the main dial to tell the time, a small seconds hand to tell that the watch is running, and a seconds hand on the main dial usually equipped with a sweeping movement for precision accompanied by a ...

5. Rolex GMT-Master ‘Pepsi’ watch worn on the moon by Apollo 14 ...

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   RR Auction house is offering the GMT-Master ‘Pepsi’ model watch which belonged originally to the late astronaut Edgar Mitchell – the sixth man to walk on the Moon.

6. Rolex - Wikipedia

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   Rolex watch in original packaging. Rolex SA (/ ˈ r oʊ l ɛ k s /) is a Swiss watch brand and manufacturer based in Geneva, Switzerland. [2] Founded in 1905 as Wilsdorf and Davis by German businessman Hans Wilsdorf and his brother-in-law Alfred Davis in London, the company registered Rolex as the brand name of its watches in 1908 and became Rolex Watch Co. Ltd. in 1915.

7. Category:Rolex watches - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Rolex watches" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Rolex GMT Master II; Rolex Milgauss; Rolex Oysterquartz; Rolex Sea ...

8. Complication (horology) - Wikipedia

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   A grand(e) complication is a watch with several complications, the most complex achievements of haute horlogerie, or fine watchmaking. Although there is no official definition, [ 2 ] one common criterion is that a watch contain at least one (visible) timing complication, one astronomical complication, and one striking complication.

9. Rolex Datejust - Wikipedia

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   Datejust watches of this type have been nicknamed "Thunderbirds". This watch would form the basis for the Rolex Explorer (designed for Sir Edmund Hillary's Mount Everest expedition), the Rolex Submariner, and the Rolex Sea-Dweller. [2] In 2009, the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust II was released.