The way you explain years/models/serials and all the minute nuances that make various generations differ from each other is the most valuable thing to get from your videos ! Thank you Austin for sharing it with us !

All BLACK. Can there be any doubt... The Pepsi would be great, but no so much under a suit, the Coke is caught in no-mans land between flash and stealth, but the all black is purrrfect. I’ve had my P series all-black for nearly 20 years and wore it every day for the first 10 years and on rotation with my Speedy Pro for the next 10. Other than the obvious timezone use, I’ve used the bezel to time short durations (everything from brewing tea, to parking meters) by lining the triangle up with the minute hand, and long durations (slow cook pork) by lining the triangle up the with red 24hr hand. I’ve swam with it, I’ve skied with it (Niseko, twice), I’ve worked in the garden with it, and here’s the thing, I’ve had it serviced by Rolex twice in that time, and every time it’s come back indistinguishable form new. As I type, it’s accurate beyond belief. If I leave it crown down over night it loses ~1 second per day, and if I leave it dial up it gains ~1 second per day, which means that I only have to reset it if it winds down. It’s the only watch I’d ever need, but my lovely wife gave me a Speedy Pro as an engagement present around 10 years ago, which is why it doesn’t get as much wrist time as it used to.

The would vote for the coke bezel. I like the pop of color.

Fantastic video Austin. Although they say that once you’ve gone black, you never go back, I’d go with a coke beezel. Great question from Ron the shrink.

Great video, always learning a thing or 2 with you... cheers!

As an owner of a 16710 Black bezel watch for the last 15 years I can tell you I love it more now than ever. I intend to buy a Coke and eventually a Pepsi bezel from the Rolex London sevice centre so that I can have even more fun out of wearing it. Therefore....... Ron, buy the best set you can find for your money, regardless of bezel colour and buy the inserts afterwards. Great video Austin.

Go for Coke Ron, unless you want to keep hearing “nice sub”. Alternately get some replacement bezel inserts so you can have a Coke, Pepsi or all Black in one. Btw all bezel inserts have different hues so I won’t worry about that too much. Judge those on a case by case basis.

Love it…This man is all about the 16710😂

Impressive knowledge and observation

My first one was a Coke (1991), but now I have a black Serif (2001) which I think is more understated. I might buy a Pepsi bezel just to have the option.

Another brill video Austin, I would definitely want the original colour - Crimson does less than nothing for me 👍

With respect Ron the real question is whether I should buy a 'Swiss Made' later Superluminova dial that will not gain patina or an earlier Swiss T25 tritium dial that is a living dial and will go creamy/toffee coloured - In 25 yrs from now the tritium dial one will be TWICE the value of a Swiss made dial as they are a scarce resource and over the next 25 yrs ALL Rolex dials will be Swiss Made superluminova so they'll be de riguer - if I could only give one one piece of advice to collectors it's this - BUY TRITIUM on any neo-vintage 16710/14060/16610/16600 it will pay you back in spades !!!

The blue on the Pepsi might bug the eye in the long run but the Coke is perfect. The two tone with the black can’t go wrong on a black dial. Just half bezel of red and GMT red hand can’t go wrong

I have a 2000 ‘Coke’ GMT Master II that I purchased new from an authorized Rolex dealer in 2001. It is my daily wear watch since I have owned it. The red on the bezel has faded to a very light red. I have never had the watch serviced or even cleaned by the dealer. It has typical battle scars from being worn 20 plus years but still looks incredibly well and runs excellent as far as I can tell (never had it on one of those graph machines). Does the very faded red part of the bezel hurt the value of the watch? The black portion has not faded at all. I’m afraid to send it to a RSC because they may want to polish it or change the bezel. I like the fact that it is 100% original. This is my first and only Rolex.

I love my Black GMT Master II. It goes with everything. Oh and it was the one my AD Offered me.

I have fallen totally in love with my 16710. I wear it on the Coke bezel but also have the Black and the Pepsi so you can switch around whenever you want to - as long as you are brave enough 😂 Mine is from 2006 and has the more crimson bezel which I actually like. If I were only allowed to keep one watch in my collection, including my 116520 - it would have to be the 16710, just perfect.....

Hi Austin love ya video’s I’ve just bought a Tudor gmt Pepsi 2019 for £2550

And also if you look at the number 18, on the older bezels the red color stops in between 1,and 8 and on the new bezel the red go slightly over the numbers 8.

I respect you Austin, but you are seriously fanatical about this stuff! I'm pretty picky about my watches too, but I bought a few cheap bezel inserts off of eBay and they're just fine. I mean really, it's just a piece of stamped aluminum that's painted. And the eBay Coke bezel insert is the perfect red color, matching the GMT hand.

Agree totaly. All black is inconspicuous. Just keep a low profile

Hello Austin. Would you justify Rolex GMT Coke or Pepsi to be your first Rolex, if $ has been collected for some time to cover an luxury expense? Thanks in advance!

Coke! That said, Doesn't everyone that owns a 16710 own all three bezel inserts? Also 10:00 couldn't it just be a pre-A serial with a service dial?

Great Video. The most beautiful GMT Master II Reference 126719BLRO

Hi Austin! I hope you remember me. Thanks to your videos, I have bought myself an all black 16700 GMT! I’m thinking to get a Pepsi replacement insert. If I bring it to RSC japan, will I be able to buy from them immediately? Also, since it’s a 16700, I assume they will not be able to sell me a COKE insert? Thanks for advice!

I wear a coke in every situation. They will have to deal with the little bit of red.

first thing first, hope Ron paid $25 for the video. Personally GMT is my go to watch especially Pepsi and coke as they have characters and black is too dull (boring for me)

I got bored of my all black and got a coke which is amazing

Love my Coke

I have a K serial which is 2001/02 and the clasp code is DT which I have read is 2002 whereas DE is 2001 (can there be overlap?). My all black bezel has serifs, could that combo be original if it is indeed a 2002 piece? I also hear there are no hard and fast transitions between serial letters and perhaps bezels. Some 2002 pieces can be K or Y. Does that concur with your experience? Thanks.

Very interesting video, your like a skinny Archie luxury without the bad language

Coke Gmt looks like an afterthought.

Ron get the Pepsi it’s the business

1 Coke 2 Pepsi 3 Black. Great video, thanks!!

Once you go black you never go back!.....👍

Black.

COKE

Coke

Coke all the way.

Please please stop with the weird pics of urself in the thumbnail! I will still watch ur content without the weird selfie.

All black