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We all knew to expect something spectacular for Baselworld 2013 with it being a special occasion for a few brands however it was Rolex in particular who were celebrating the 50^th Anniversary of their figure head watch, the Cosmograph Daytona. The usual rumours were circulating as ever when there is a possible change to the Daytona, potential oversized version, dated option or perhaps the inclusion of ceramic bezels on other models. What I imagine a lot of people did not expect was an absolute showstopper of a piece that was to leave watch lovers breathless and eager in anticipation to see this beauty in the flesh.

A feat no one else has achieved. This is a statement we have grown used to when it comes to Rolex watches as you look back through their history and the achievements they have gained along the way. Surprisingly this year, a lot of watch aficionados were absolutely spot on when it came to guessing what Rolex had in store for us in the form of a White Gold GMT Master II 116719BLRO.

When Rolex released their teaser video to BaselWorld 2014, everyone who viewed the video talked about the fine fluted bezel, the apparent colour of rose gold, the perhaps blatant imagery of the moon and the lack of the Cyclops on the Crystal. What most people did not realise and only a few of the eagle eyed amongst us did, was that there was two watches shown to us on the video however it is the “fluted bezel” watch that is shown for the longer duration of time. The other watch was shown to us first but only a small glimpse, blink and you’ll miss it. The appearance of this watch was fairly thick in size with a flat bezel and again no Cyclops.

Ever had the frustrating time when working on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider or your local Nuclear Reactor and your watch just won’t stop messing around due to the massive increase in Magnetic force playing havoc on the insides of you puny non anti-magnetic watch and just wish you had the foresight to buy a watch that could withstand so much magnetic interference? No me neither but I would imagine it to be an exasperating issue but at least we have Rolex to fall back on for a solution.  In fact they had produced the solution in 1956 in order to help the magnetic issue on mechanical watches that Scientist and engineers were facing at this time. The watch in question that was released was the Rolex Milgauss which was able to resist strong interference of up to 1,000 gauss, hence its name - mille being French for thousand.