Case is in overall good condition with slight signs of wear. Dial is nice and clean. Between 11 and 12 o`clock is a small scratch on the dial. Luminor dots material is intact and original, and the patina matches the hands. Full of character. Movement is running and the date function performs correctly at midnight. Blue Bezel is in great overall condition with only little signs of wear.

In my opinion, this is one of the coolest watches in the world. Only around 100 examples exist. There are so many different stories about the Rolex GMT Master Blueberry watch and the crazy thing is, nobody is 100% sure of the correct story and history of this watch. What we do know is that the blue bezel was produced for the UAE GMT-Master.

There are a lot of existing pieces with the blue bezel and the all red hand. You can also find a GMT-Master Cartier dial with the blue bezels. I think that Rolex produced the blue bezel and the all red hand originally for the UAE.

But at the end of the day, they didn’t sell as many watches as they expected so they sent the rest of the parts to the Rolex Service Centres. And on the request of the clients, they changed the red hand to the all red hand and also the pepsi bezel to the blue bezel. Perhaps clients like Cartier also had the opportunity to create their own Rolex so they also used the blue bezel. But nobody knows the real truth of the history and the story behind this watch. It’s still a secret.
The present example has the rare radial dial that Rolex produced over a very short period at the end of the 70s. The hands are original and match perfectly with the patina of the dial. When you take a closer look at the red hand patina, so you see a very different patina. This also underpins the spare part thesis. The blue bezel is nice and clean with only very small scratches.

Altogether, a very charismatic watch and maybe the coolest watch in the world.