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<small>[[Reference:gmt-master|GMT-Master]] → '''16713'''</small> | <small>[[Reference:gmt-master|GMT-Master]] → '''16713'''</small> | ||
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The [[Reference:16713|16713]] is the two-tone GMT-Master II branch inside the long [[Reference:16710|16710]] era. It carries GMT-Master II movement logic into a steel-and-yellow-gold case, but it inherits enough of the older Root Beer vocabulary that it is easy to misread as just another nickname watch. It is not. The black branch is real, the brown branch is real, and the package is already strong enough to keep both visible. | The [[Reference:16713|16713]] is the two-tone GMT-Master II branch inside the long [[Reference:16710|16710]] era. It carries GMT-Master II movement logic into a steel-and-yellow-gold case, but it inherits enough of the older Root Beer vocabulary that it is easy to misread as just another nickname watch. It is not. The black branch is real, the brown branch is real, and the package is already strong enough to keep both visible. | ||
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The black branch matters just as much because it stops the reference from collapsing into a single nickname. The package already has direct brown and black examples, and they look like genuinely different watches even though the underlying reference is the same. | The black branch matters just as much because it stops the reference from collapsing into a single nickname. The package already has direct brown and black examples, and they look like genuinely different watches even though the underlying reference is the same. | ||
The branch map is not fully clean | The black [[Reference:16713|16713]] is not a rarity-hunt curiosity. It is the configuration that Rolex pushed as the two-tone GMT-Master II’s default in most of its own catalogue imagery of the period, and it is the one that turns up most often on Jubilee in the surviving market. A black gloss dial with applied white-gold-surrounded lume plots, paired with a black bezel insert, reads as a tonally quieter watch than a Submariner [[Reference:16613|16613]] of the same vintage because the bezel numerals are printed rather than applied. Buyers who come to the reference looking for Root Beer often leave with a black example because the wrist presence is cleaner and the aftermarket premium is gentler. The Sotheby’s and dealer retail layers in the package confirm that. The black branch is the workhorse side of the reference, not a footnote. | ||
The branch map is not fully clean. The Field Manual table treats the reference more like a black-bezel LN, while the wider family literature tries to broaden the color story. Revolution’s GMT-Master II survey leaves room for brown-bezel and black-bezel production, and the Sotheby’s Root Beer guide backs that. The current direct examples support black and brown, and that is the safest line for the article. | |||
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* late 3186 examples listed by the Field Manual | * late 3186 examples listed by the Field Manual | ||
* independent GMT-hand function rather than the older linked-hand system | * independent GMT-hand function rather than the older linked-hand system | ||
Within this reference, the 3185 to 3186 changeover lands late. The broader Rolex rollout of the 3186 (with its Parachrom hairspring and revised GMT wheel) is commonly placed in the mid-2000s, and the [[Reference:16713|16713]] ran until roughly 2007. That compresses the 3186 window inside this reference to the last couple of years of production. In practice, most surviving examples are 3185 watches. A 3186-equipped [[Reference:16713|16713]] is not a mythical creature, but it is uncommon, and a seller who claims one should be able to show an original Rolex service invoice or movement photograph. No public Rolex archive confirms the exact serial boundary. | |||
This is enough to make the [[Reference:16713|16713]] a real GMT-Master II even when the colors pull it backward into the Root Beer tradition. | This is enough to make the [[Reference:16713|16713]] a real GMT-Master II even when the colors pull it backward into the Root Beer tradition. | ||
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== Dial map == | == Dial map == | ||
The dial story is simpler than on the steel [[Reference:16710|16710]], but the branch split still matters. | The dial story is simpler than on the steel [[Reference:16710|16710]], but the branch split still matters. | ||
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The Field Manual gives the strongest short line here. The [[Reference:16713|16713]] is the last GMT branch with nipple indexes and the first with a gilt coronet, which makes the watch feel transitional in its own way even without the extreme dial taxonomy of the [[Reference:1675|1675]]. | The Field Manual gives the strongest short line here. The [[Reference:16713|16713]] is the last GMT branch with nipple indexes and the first with a gilt coronet, which makes the watch feel transitional in its own way even without the extreme dial taxonomy of the [[Reference:1675|1675]]. | ||
For spotters, nipple indexes are the rounded applied hour markers with a small raised lume pip at the centre of each, rather than the flat rectangular lume plots found on the later [[Reference:16710|16710]] dials. Under a loupe the marker has a dome shape and the lume sits in a shallow cup. The gilt coronet is the subtlety in the dial signature block: the Rolex crown at 12 is printed or applied in a warmer gold tone rather than the white or silver-tone coronet used across most steel sports references of the period. Put together, an early [[Reference:16713|16713]] with both features reads as a genuine bridge from the [[Reference:16753|16753]] Root Beer visual vocabulary into the GMT-Master II era. Later examples lose the nipple markers and move to the flatter applied-baton dial. The transitional window for the combined signature is understood to sit in the early years of the run, though no public Rolex document records an exact changeover serial. | |||
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* black is directly supported | * black is directly supported | ||
* any wider color reading beyond that still needs better direct examples | * any wider color reading beyond that still needs better direct examples | ||
The Field Manual text reads the [[Reference:16710|16710]] family’s full bezel matrix (Pepsi, Coke, black) back onto the [[Reference:16713|16713]] row, which is the source of the occasional claim that a Coke or Pepsi two-tone exists for this reference. The Sotheby’s retail material in the package does not support that. Revolution does not show a Coke or Pepsi [[Reference:16713|16713]]. The wider-colour reading therefore belongs in the “claimed but not verified” column rather than the production-branch column. The practical line for buyers is that any two-tone [[Reference:16713|16713]] offered as Pepsi or Coke deserves archive paperwork and a close look at the bezel fitment before it is taken seriously. | |||
Enough for a first article pass without pretending the bezel map is cleaner than it is. | Enough for a first article pass without pretending the bezel map is cleaner than it is. | ||
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== Bracelets, end links, clasps, and packaging notes == | == Bracelets, end links, clasps, and packaging notes == | ||
The package now shows more than one useful surviving presentation. | The package now shows more than one useful surviving presentation. | ||
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== Special branches == | == Special branches == | ||
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=== Root Beer branch === | === Root Beer branch === | ||