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The crystal is sapphire with Cyclops — the 16760 is the first GMT-Master with a sapphire crystal. Water resistance is 100m. The crown is the screw-down 7mm with crown guards. Case construction follows the standard mid-1980s Rolex Oyster pattern; the only meaningful visual difference vs the 16710 is the thicker midcase and slightly broader crown guards.

The Coke (red-and-black) bezel insert is the only factory configuration. Every surveyed source — Exquisite Timepieces, Bob's, SwissWatchExpo, Monochrome, the four Christie's / Phillips / Sotheby's / Bonhams lots — confirms the 16760 was produced exclusively with the red-on-black 24-hour insert. There is no factory black-only ("Sub-style") variant and no factory Pepsi. The Field Manual's "black or Coke" reading and Sotheby's GMT-Master collector guide's "Pepsi or Coke" framing both surface in the literature, but no major-house lot has surfaced a non-Coke factory 16760, and the auction-house corpus is unanimous on Coke. Treat the Coke as definitive and capture the literature mismatches as published-source disagreement rather than factory variation. Service replacements with later-generation inserts exist on surviving examples but are not period-correct; faded inserts are common (Wind Vintage's "Faded Insert" listing).

The Coke (red-and-black) bezel insert is the only factory configuration. Every surveyed source — Exquisite Timepieces, Bob's, SwissWatchExpo, Monochrome, the four Christie's / Phillips / Sotheby's / Bonhams lots — confirms the 16760 was produced exclusively with the red-on-black 24-hour insert. There is no factory black-only ("Sub-style") variant and no factory Pepsi. The Field Manual's "black or Coke" reading and Sotheby's GMT-Master collector guide's "Pepsi or Coke" framing both surface in the literature, but no major-house lot has surfaced a non-Coke factory 16760, and the auction-house corpus is unanimous on Coke. Treat the Coke as definitive and capture the literature mismatches as published-source disagreement rather than factory variation. Aftermarket and dealer-fitted Pepsi 16760s do circulate in the market — Bob's Watches lists examples with replacement Pepsi inserts (Bob's stock #108255, GMT-Master II 16760 with Pepsi insert, descriptive text "we chose a new pepsi insert for this model, but can be changed to black new Rolex insert or dated black insert at no cost to customer"). These are insert swaps onto a Coke-delivered case, not factory configurations. Service replacements with later-generation inserts also exist on surviving examples but are not period-correct; faded inserts are common (Wind Vintage's "Faded Insert" listing).

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 The crystal is sapphire with Cyclops — the 16760 is the first GMT-Master with a sapphire crystal. Water resistance is 100m. The crown is the screw-down 7mm with crown guards. Case construction follows the standard mid-1980s Rolex Oyster pattern; the only meaningful visual difference vs the 16710 is the thicker midcase and slightly broader crown guards.
-The Coke (red-and-black) bezel insert is the only factory configuration. Every surveyed source — Exquisite Timepieces, Bob's, SwissWatchExpo, Monochrome, the four Christie's / Phillips / Sotheby's / Bonhams lots — confirms the 16760 was produced exclusively with the red-on-black 24-hour insert. There is no factory black-only ("Sub-style") variant and no factory Pepsi. The Field Manual's "black or Coke" reading and Sotheby's GMT-Master collector guide's "Pepsi or Coke" framing both surface in the literature, but no major-house lot has surfaced a non-Coke factory 16760, and the auction-house corpus is unanimous on Coke. Treat the Coke as definitive and capture the literature mismatches as published-source disagreement rather than factory variation. Service replacements with later-generation inserts exist on surviving examples but are not period-correct; faded inserts are common (Wind Vintage's "Faded Insert" listing).
+The Coke (red-and-black) bezel insert is the only factory configuration. Every surveyed source — Exquisite Timepieces, Bob's, SwissWatchExpo, Monochrome, the four Christie's / Phillips / Sotheby's / Bonhams lots — confirms the 16760 was produced exclusively with the red-on-black 24-hour insert. There is no factory black-only ("Sub-style") variant and no factory Pepsi. The Field Manual's "black or Coke" reading and Sotheby's GMT-Master collector guide's "Pepsi or Coke" framing both surface in the literature, but no major-house lot has surfaced a non-Coke factory 16760, and the auction-house corpus is unanimous on Coke. Treat the Coke as definitive and capture the literature mismatches as published-source disagreement rather than factory variation. Aftermarket and dealer-fitted Pepsi 16760s do circulate in the market — Bob's Watches lists examples with replacement Pepsi inserts (Bob's stock #108255, GMT-Master II 16760 with Pepsi insert, descriptive text "we chose a new pepsi insert for this model, but can be changed to black new Rolex insert or dated black insert at no cost to customer"). These are insert swaps onto a Coke-delivered case, not factory configurations. Service replacements with later-generation inserts also exist on surviving examples but are not period-correct; faded inserts are common (Wind Vintage's "Faded Insert" listing).
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