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Rolex GMT-Master II 116710LN; Rolex GMT-Master II 126710BLNR “Batgirl”; Rolex Submariner “Kermit”; Invicta Pro Diver 17554; Invicta Pro Diver SCUBA 37231; Casio G-Shock DW-9052; Casio Digital

Rolex GMT-Master II 116710LN; Rolex GMT-Master II 126710BLNR “Batgirl”; Rolex Submariner “Kermit”; Invicta Pro Diver 17554; Invicta Pro Diver SCUBA 37231; Casio G-Shock DW-9052; Casio Digital
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A U.S. Army Aviation soldier working aviation operations and tactical air traffic control. He wanted the whole collection shown together with his uniform. It started with his dad, who introduced him to Invicta, and that is where the collecting began. Over the years his taste grew from Invicta into G-Shocks and Casios he could wear hard, and eventually into Rolex and mechanical watches. The job pushed it along. Around aviation and tactical air traffic control, Zulu time and equipment you can depend on stopped being watch guy stuff. They were part of the work. So the lineup runs the whole road. The Invicta Pro Divers that started it all, a Casio G-Shock DW-9052 and a Casio digital for wearing hard, and the Rolex GMT-Master II 116710LN, the GMT-Master II 126710BLNR he calls the Batgirl, and the Submariner he calls the Kermit. In his words, different price points, different purposes, but every one of them belongs in the collection. Who got you into watches? If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.

Intel Report

The GMT-Master lineage The GMT-Master exists because an airline asked for it. In the mid 1950s Pan American World Airways wanted a watch its transatlantic crews could use to track two time zones at once, and Rolex answered with the reference 6542, a fourth hand read against a rotating 24 hour bezel, so a pilot could keep home time, or Zulu time, alongside local. The GMT-Master II that followed added an independently setting local hour hand, letting the wearer jump zones without stopping the watch. The two in this collection carry the story forward. The 116710LN of 2007 brought Rolex's scratch resistant black Cerachrom ceramic bezel to the steel GMT line, and the 126710BLNR wears the blue and black bezel that earned its bat nicknames from collectors. A watch born because flight crews needed dependable Zulu time, collected by a soldier who runs tactical air traffic control. The lineage did not wander far.
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