Editor’s note: You don’t have to be one of Gotham’s finest to figure out that the all new, all ‘Oystersteel’ ‘Pepsi’ GMT-Master II was one of the biggest releases to come out of Baselworld this year. The hype was real. And with all this talk of two-colour bezels, we got to wondering around the T+T office, if this one — the first of the Rolex ceramic bezels to get the bi-colour treatment — can hold its own against its brand-new red and blue younger sibling. While we wait for the first deliveries of Pepsi to be made, and to find out just how the Batman stacks up, we thought it was a good idea to get reacquainted with the BLNR, and Mr Bruce Duguay’s excellent in-depth review. When Rolex introduced the updated ceramic bezel GMT-Master II nearly 10 years ago it was perhaps one of the most aggressive revisions to this historic model. A beautiful new scratch and fade resistant ceramic insert for the bezel, a heftier case and more pronounced dial ushered in a new era for this pilot’s watch. Notably absent, however, were the bi-colour bezels that had been available since the inception of the GMT-Master in the 1950s (think ‘Pepsi’ blue/red and ‘Coke’ red/black).…
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