Super Clone Rolex GMT-Master II

These are the nicknames collectors use for the bezel color combinations on the modern GMT-Master II, and they are the easiest way to tell them apart. The Pepsi (126710BLRO) is red and blue — the original 1955 colors meant to represent day (red) and night (blue), nicknamed after the Pepsi-Cola logo. The Batman (126710BLNR) is blue and black, named for the Dark Knight color scheme. The Sprite (126720VTNR) is green and black AND has a left-hand crown — the crown is at 9 o'clock instead of 3, putting the date on the left side, made for left-handed wearers. The Root Beer (126711CHNR) is brown and black on a two-tone steel and rose gold case. All four are stocked on both the Japanese tier ($359) and the Swiss tier ($999). The older nicknames like the Coke (red and black) are discontinued by Rolex but we still carry the most popular variants.

It is simpler than it looks. The hour and minute hands show your local time, same as any watch. The fourth hand — the long arrow with the colored tip — rotates once every 24 hours instead of twice. Set it to GMT (or whatever home time zone you want it to track) and leave it alone. To read the second time zone, look at where the fourth hand points on the 24-hour bezel scale around the edge. To track a third time zone on top of those two, rotate the bezel until your destination's hour aligns with the fourth hand. When you land in a new city, pull the crown one click and jump the local hour forward or back to match the new time. The seconds keep running, the GMT hand stays on home time, and the date jumps automatically at midnight. This is the part that earns the II in GMT-Master II — you can change time zones without stopping the watch.

The original GMT-Master from 1955 had a 24-hour hand that was permanently linked to the regular hour hand — to change time zones you had to rotate the bezel, which was fine for pilots checking GMT but inconvenient for travelers. The GMT-Master II launched in 1983 and added the independently jumping local hour hand. Now the local hour can move on its own without disturbing the GMT hand or the seconds, which means you can land somewhere new and adjust to local time in five seconds without losing your home-time reference. Every modern Rolex GMT in production today is a GMT-Master II — the original is collector territory. Our catalog focuses on the modern II references.

Buy the Batman 126710BLNR. The blue-and-black bezel works with everything you own — a t-shirt, a suit, a swimsuit, a winter coat — and it never feels too loud the way the Pepsi sometimes does in bright light. It is quietly the best-selling modern GMT for that exact reason. The Pepsi is the second pick if you want the iconic original, and there is a real argument that the Pepsi is THE GMT-Master and you should just get one. The Sprite (the lefty with the green bezel) is a fantastic third option for left-handed wearers or for anyone who wants something genuinely unusual — it is a great conversation piece and the green is more subtle than people expect. The Root Beer is the dressy choice if you want a two-tone gold watch, but two-tone gold is louder than most people realize until they actually wear it for a month. Skip the all-yellow gold version unless you specifically want a gold watch. Start with Batman or Pepsi. Add a second one later if you still want one.

Yes. The bidirectional 24-hour bezel rotates fully on both Japanese and Swiss tier replicas with the click-stop feel of the real one. The Cerachrom-style ceramic insert is real ceramic, not painted aluminum, so it won't fade in sunlight or scratch from normal desk use. On the two-color references — Pepsi, Batman, Sprite, Root Beer — the colors meet exactly at 6 and 18 hours, which is the precision detail that separates a quality super clone from a cheap fake. Cheap fakes get the color join slightly off-center or use a smudgy transition. Ours do not. This is one of the most expensive parts of a quality GMT replica to build correctly and the easiest visual giveaway when you compare two replicas side by side.

Yes. The GMT-Master II uses the same Cyclops lens as the Datejust and the Submariner — a small bubble of sapphire glass bonded over the date window at 3 o'clock that magnifies the date by 2.5 times so you can read it without squinting. Both the Japanese tier and the Swiss tier replicas use real sapphire glass with a real bonded magnifier, not a printed effect or a plastic dome. On the left-hand-crown Sprite the Cyclops sits at 9 o'clock instead of 3, mirroring the layout of the real lefty Rolex. The Cyclops is one of the most recognized features of any Rolex with a date window, and a watch that is missing it (or has a flat one that doesn't actually magnify) is the fastest way to be spotted as wearing a cheap fake.