Just about everyone and their mother knows what a Rolex GMT Master is. But did you know that the brand made a white-dialed version?

That’s right. In the early days of the GMT Master, Pan-Am commissioned a series of roughly 200 pieces in white for their executives — the story being that Juan Trippe, the company’s chief, was none too happy that desk-bound, C-suite types were hoarding the black-dialed versions meant for aircrews for themselves. For decades, the Rolex collector community wasn’t sure that these watches were real. Turns out, ! (We think.)

Of course, these watches are all but ‘unobtanium.’ If one were to come up at auction, brains would melt. Continents would split apart. Aurel Bacs would have a heart attack and be forced to man the rostrum from his hospital bed. Thankfully, the watch world has a compromise…

Mk II, the OG American microbrand founded by Bill Yao, cooked up one of the coolest modern watches of all time when it put together an homage to the white-dialed GMT unicorn, which it dubbed the ‘Key West.’ An unabashed tribute through and through, it is, to put it lightly, dope as hell. Especially so given that your chances of scoring an original white-dialed 6542 are, roughly, 765,432,891 to 1. (We made that number up, but you get it.)

This particular Key West is housed in a 39mm stainless steel case with a double-domed sapphire crystal, a signed crown, a bidirectional, and a 24-hour ‘Coke’ GMT bezel. It features a luminous satin white 'gilt' dial with maxi indices, a matching Mercedes handset, and a roulette date wheel at 3:00. Powered by the industry-standard workhorse ETA 2893-2 automatic movement, it comes paired to a steel faux-rivet Oyster-style bracelet with a signed locking clasp.

Dating to the 2010s and accompanied by its factory goodies, this Key West is a star in its own right — nevermind the Rolex connection!