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<small>[[Reference:gmt-master|GMT-Master]] → '''6542'''</small> | <small>[[Reference:gmt-master|GMT-Master]] → '''6542'''</small> | ||
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The [[Reference:6542|6542]] is the first GMT-Master and still the strangest one to collect. It starts the family in the Pan Am era with a no-crown-guard Oyster case and a bakelite 24-hour bezel that was visually brilliant and mechanically fragile. The steel watch gives the line its red-and-blue identity. The gold watch proves just as early that GMT-Masters were never only steel tool watches. | The [[Reference:6542|6542]] is the first GMT-Master and still the strangest one to collect. It starts the family in the Pan Am era with a no-crown-guard Oyster case and a bakelite 24-hour bezel that was visually brilliant and mechanically fragile. The steel watch gives the line its red-and-blue identity. The gold watch proves just as early that GMT-Masters were never only steel tool watches. | ||
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== Production outline == | == Production outline == | ||
[[File:Ref 6542 gold-brown.webp|thumb|right|280px|Gold 6542 with brown bakelite]] | |||
[[File:Ref 6542 service-example.webp|thumb|right|280px|Service-path 6542 with metal insert]] | |||
The simplest way to read the [[Reference:6542|6542]] is not as a long internal chronology, because the run is short and the surviving watches are heavily altered. It works better as three overlapping production and survival paths. | The simplest way to read the [[Reference:6542|6542]] is not as a long internal chronology, because the run is short and the surviving watches are heavily altered. It works better as three overlapping production and survival paths. | ||
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== Special branches == | == Special branches == | ||
[[File:Ref 6542 gold-bonanno.webp|thumb|right|280px|Gold 6542/8 on gold bracelet]] | |||
[[File:Ref 6542 albino-white.webp|thumb|right|280px|White-dial Albino outlier]] | |||
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=== Gold 6542/8 === | === Gold 6542/8 === | ||