Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Rolex GMT Master. Introduced ...

Warm, modern and distinctive without being loud and obnoxious. The brown-and-black ceramic bezel gives the GMT-Master II a ...

A Slow Evolution Over the decades, the GMT-Master would change in incremental, barely perceptible, Rolex-like fashion—updated with more accurate movements, slightly larger cases, and better bracelets, ...

Mitchell became the sixth person to walk on the moon on the nine-day mission, spending nine hours exploring the lunar surface. There is film footage of the astronaut wearing the GMT-Master before the ...

Value for money is the most important trend in watches at the moment, and recession-proof Rolex, despite having a banner year, is on board. The Rolex GMT-Master II, a hit when it was introduced in ...

A Rolex watch that made a trip to the Moon is going up for auction – and the price will be out of this world. RR Auction house is offering the GMT-Master ‘Pepsi’ model watch which belonged originally ...

This particular Rolex GMT comes with the added bonus of historical significance. The watch comes from its original owner, United States Navy veteran Thomas Francis Finley Jr. Finley served for 28 ...

Not long ago, buying a new Rolex required a certain suspension of disbelief. Prices followed ravenous appetite rather than ...

If you have ever wondered why the Rolex GMT-Master has come to embody adventure, elegance and style, a special exhibition by Swiss watchmaker and watch retailer Cortina at the Paragon atrium in ...

Baselworld, the biggest watch event of the year, is happening now at the Messe Basel in Basel, Switzerland. We’ve got a team on the ground there to bring you the most exciting releases. Follow our ...

Rolex fans fretting about their place on the Daytona wait list can take heart. Rolex introduced a slew of new models to lust after at Watches & Wonders in Geneva last month, including a new GMT-Master ...

Arriving in the jet age as a tool for Pan Am pilots, the GMT-Master II evolved into Rolex’s smartest travel watch: ...