Good morning it's Meg from SwissWatchExpo you're familiar with all the nicknames
Batman Batgirl the Hulk how about the Fat Lady I'm an introduce her to you in just a minute
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hi it's Meg from SwissWatchExpo you guys know I love Rolex we have such a fun product around
here so many options to show you and we're always super privileged to have the exceptional quality
and quantity of our steel sports models they're iconic they're so well known and of course they
have so many nicknames so the Batman Batgirl Hulk all of those are current models that everybody is
searching for but I've got some really fun ones for you today and actually it's kind
of interesting that sometimes it's simply an anomaly and wasn't supposed to happen but it
did anyway and they actually when we have one it makes it very interesting and very desirable
from our customers so let me start with one of those It's actually an anomaly this is our
very classic anniversary Submariner I'm going to tell you about the Fat Lady in a minute I
know that was in my intro but we're going to start this way instead so one of the nicknames
or one of the comments that you might hear or read out there on the Rolex forum is the flat
four so people are always wondering what is the flat floor this is the anniversary Submariner
but if you look very closely you'll notice the 4 in the 40 on the Submariner bezel is actually
cut across the top very square instead of more pointed like a triangle so if you compare this
to some of the other submariners you'll notice this one has a Flat 4 that's all it is it's just
the way that that particular bezel was printed but it's really fun it actually makes a very
collectible and and quite interesting to have that makes yours different from anyone else's
so our Submariner Flat 4 is the first one that I wanted to show you about the second one I want
to show you is actually and you we have it listed this way as an error dial not era as in timeframe
but error as in there was a mistake made on this and the fact that they're out there and we have
one again very collectible really fun to see and while I had it before we sell it I wanted
opportunity to show it to you so for a long time Rolex had hearts bezels dials made in different
facilities in different locations it wasn't always all in-house and sometimes when those are being
produced a particular vendor or producer of these dials would make a mistake you'd have to look
very very closely but I know our photographers are amazing camera people and they'll show you
this if you look at this this is a GMT Master II and if you look at where it says GMT Master
II you'll notice that two is not a Roman numeral two it's actually a capital I I so this is called
an error dial it's an it's been a mistake it should have been a Roman numeral two and if you
compare it to the classic GMT dials or the ones that are currently made you'll notice so right
here very small in the center of the dial you'll see that GMT Master II is the error dial so this
one's really fun actually I think I'm selling this really soon so it won't be here for long but while
we had it I wanted to show it to you and in case they buy something else give me a call we'll make
sure we this one goes home to you while I have the GMT Master tube error dial in my hand I do
want to show you another one I want to introduce you to the fat lady she deserves a lot of respect
she's actually quite important in the history of the Rolex watches she's also
another GMT Master II and actually she's the first GMT Master II before this they made the
GMT the GMT originally were made in the 60s and they were exclusively for Pan Am Pilots the whole
idea behind the GMT of course is Greenwich Mean Time it has your 24-hour bezel and on that 24-hour
bezel the pilots they all fly in Zulu or GMT time so they were able to know immediately regardless
of where they were which time in military a GMT Zulu time it was and then as they traveled they
would move the bezel based on how many hours in different time zones they were in the what's
important about this one this is the 16760 it was introduced in 1983 is that they switched the
movement completely prior to this the GMT Master watches actually the hour hand and the 24-hour
GMT time did not move independently you had to set them and they would change both at the same time
this was the first introduction of a new movement that allows the GMT hand the red hand and the hour
hands to move independently so you in fact you can have three time zones on this watch but the
reason she's named the Fat Lady there's another lesser well-known nickname for her it's the Sophia
Loren because Sophia was kind of a curvy girl and that's how the nickname got here for fat lady as
well but the Fat Lady is actually when they made this particular movement that had the ability to
have that independent timing between the 24 hour and the hour hand you'll notice that the case is
a little bit thicker and I'm going to borrow this one as the arrow dial just so you can see
she's actually a little bit curvier she's a little higher a little bit thicker through the girth of
it the depth of it and then also you'll notice that one of the things they did is they beefed up
the lugs are the crown guard around the lugs as well but the crown guard around the crown so just
in general she's curvier she's very beautiful but this is why she earned the nickname the
fat lady now what's so interesting about this of course it's significant in the history of
Rolex with respect to the introduction of the independent 24-hour GMT time being able to be
set but also they only made this through 1988 so and they also always made this only with
the Coke bezel on it so this is the way it came it's a beautiful timepiece it's
so stunning but I know you may have wanted just to introduce it to you today kind of
show you that in three different cases the Fat Lady the arrow dial and the Flat Four there's
always such a unique history and legacy behind these watches we always love to share these
with you and let you take a look at them please feel free to give us a call at SwissWatchExpo
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take great care of you and see which one of these special watches you'd like to take home today.