Dwayne Johnson is most definitely a watch guy. From TAG Heuer to IWC, from Panerai to Oris, the GQ Man of the Year has proven his horological bona fides again and again with all sorts of large tool Rolex replica watches UK online. At any given event, screening, or premier, you can find a race-ready Monaco, a cushion-cased Luminor, or an oversized Big Pilot strapped to his wrist. And given that all these models are classics, it’s little surprise that we find him wearing yet another classic in the Rolex GMT-Master II fake watches to a special promotional appearance for his new film Red One.
This week, a crowd of utterly delighted kids—and their parents, frankly—were treated to a dose of whatever The Rock happened to be cooking that day when he showed up unexpectedly at Hamleys, a historic toy store in London. Clearly visible on Johnson’s wrist, meanwhile, was the high quality replica Rolex GMT-Master II ref. 126715CHNR watches, a solid-gold take on the brand’s iconic dual-time travel watch with a matching gold Oyster bracelet. (If you’re gonna hand out teddy bears to kids, you may as well do it in style, no?)
The best 1:1 Rolex GMT-Master II copy watches makes perfect sense for a globe-trotting star like Johnson, but its origins are much more utilitarian: In the 1950s Rolex designed an entirely new complication for the flight crews of Pan Am, then the leading American airline and one of the world’s most glamorous. The idea behind the Rolex replica watches for men, which the Swiss watchmaker dubbed the “GMT-Master,” was that a fourth hand, attached to the local hour hand, could be used in conjunction with a rotating 24-hour bezel to display a second time zone. This way, air crews could monitor both local as well as Greenwich Mean Time, which was then the common reference time for pilots. (Today, it’s U.T.C.)
Because the GMT hand was paired with the hour hand, the spinning bezel was necessary in order to calculate this second zone. However, in 1983, Rolex released the Swiss movements replica Rolex GMT-Master II watches, which featured an independently adjustable local hour hand. This allowed for two things: It meant that the watch could now technically track three time zones and frequent travelers could quickly and easily update local time without spinning all the hands in a potentially long scroll. (Just pop out the crown to the correct position and jump the hour hand in one-hour increments.) Even before the birth of the “II,” however, Rolex had begun making top UK super clone Rolex GMT-Master watches in solid gold, turning this once-relatively-affordable pilot’s tool into a distinctive luxury product for the wealthy.
The original blue-and-red “Pepsi” bezel—divided into two colors in order to quickly differentiate day from night—has since spawned numerous other colorways. Johnson’s best China Rolex fake watches, which features a black-and-brown bezel, has been nicknamed “Root Beer” by the collector community. Its solid Everose gold case and matching Oyster bracelet send it even further into the luxury stratosphere, and at $42,300, it’s probably not gonna feature on too many pilots’ wrists any time soon. But if your last name is “Johnson” and you happen to be on a globe-spanning mission to save Santa Claus, it’s sort of the perfect watch.