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EDITOR’S PICKS 2022

ROLEX

OYSTER PERPETUAL GMT-MASTER II REF. 126720VTNR

Joshua Yap, Contributing Editor

Any new GMT-Master II is bound to send the hordes of Rolex devotees into a frenzy, but the Ref. 126720VTNR nearly broke the Internet by being the most unusual Professional model released thus far. Its crown and crown guard have been relocated to the left of the case, and the Cyclops lens now sits at nine instead of three o’clock – a seemingly simple switch-up that required the Manufacture to devise new precision tests. Rolex stopped short of calling it a watch for southpaws, but it sure makes its wearer stand out among others still flexing their tickers on their left wrists.

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