Is the Rolex 16710 still in production?

No. Rolex replaced it in 2007 with the 116710LN, which has a ceramic bezel insert and a broader case. Its steel descendants are the 126710 family; Rolex dropped the Pepsi version in April 2026, and the blue and black and the grey and black versions remain in production.

Did the 16710 come on a Jubilee bracelet?

Yes, on an Oyster or a Jubilee. The correct Jubilee is the 62510H, and Luxury Bazaar says original ones have «50» stamped on the back of the top link.

What do 16710T, 16710LN and 16710BLRO mean?

Letters that sellers add to the reference, and they do not agree. Luxury Bazaar uses 16710T for the later watches without lug holes, Exquisite Timepieces for tritium dials. In listings BLRO marks a Pepsi, while LN turns up on Pepsi, Coke and unspecified watches alike. Only in the successor's 116710LN is LN part of Rolex's own reference.

What movement is in the 16710?

Calibre 3185: self-winding, 31 jewels, 28,800 vibrations an hour, about 50 hours of reserve. The last watches have calibre 3186, with a Parachrom hairspring.

What is a 16710 stick dial or error dial?

A late dial with the «II» printed as two plain strokes instead of serifed Roman numerals. Sellers call it an error dial; Luxury Bazaar calls it a typeface variation, also found on service dials.

What did a Rolex 16710 cost new?

In a US-dollar retail table that began as a Rolex dealer's handout: USD 3,500 in September 1992, USD 4,525 in February 2005 and USD 5,750 in March 2008. It is not a Rolex document.

What is a Rolex 16710 worth?

Bob's Watches reports an average sale price of USD 15,200 for its own 16710 sales in the twelve months to August 2026. Chrono24's median asking price was USD 12,768 in October 2025. Asking prices are not sale prices.

What is the difference between the 16710 and the 16700?

The 16700 is a GMT-Master, not a GMT-Master II: its hour hand cannot be set on its own. It was made alongside the 16710 until 1999; its first year and its inserts are disputed.

Rolex · Ref. 16710 · catalogued from 34 sources

GMT-Master II

The 16710 can keep track of three time zones at once. Most owners are keeping track of something else: how far the bezel has faded.

The Rolex GMT-Master II ref. 16710 is the stainless steel GMT-Master II that Rolex made from 1989 to 2007^1,3,11,13,14: a 40 mm Oyster case, water-resistant to 100 metres, with a two-way 24-hour bezel carrying an aluminium insert in red and blue («Pepsi»), red and black («Coke») or black^1,2,3,5. Calibre 3185, and in the last examples 3186, lets the hour hand be reset on its own in one-hour jumps, so the watch can show a second time zone on the 24-hour hand and a third on the bezel^7,9,13,14,15. The ceramic-bezel 116710 replaced it in 2007^1,16,17. We found no Rolex price list for it; the last figure in a US-dollar retail table that began as a Rolex dealer's handout is USD 5,750 in March 2008¹⁸.

The steel GMT-Master II for eighteen years: 1989 to 2007, 40 mm, 100 metres, calibre 3185 and, at the very end, calibre 3186^1,3,5,7,14.

One reference, three bezel inserts: Pepsi, Coke and black. An insert can be swapped in minutes, so the colour on the watch is not proof of the colour it left the factory with^1,11,16.

Chrono24's median asking price rose about 6.9 per cent in the year to October 2025 but sat about 5.4 per cent below February 2024; without late-variant and modified listings, +7.3 and −2.4 per cent^19,20,21. Asking prices are not sale prices.

The particulars

Reference: 16710, GMT-Master II^1,2,3
Case: Oyster, 40 mm, about 12 mm thick, about 47 mm lug to lug^1,4,5
Material: Stainless steel^1,5
Bezel: Turns in both directions, 24-hour scale, aluminium insert in red and blue, red and black, or black^1,2,3,5
Crystal: Sapphire, with a Cyclops lens over the date^5,6
Crown: Twinlock, screw-down^3,5
Water resistance: 100 metres (330 feet)^1,5
Movement: Calibre 3185, in the last examples 3186; in-house, self-winding, chronometer, hacking seconds, hour hand resettable in one-hour jumps^1,2,7,8,9
Frequency: 28,800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz); 31 jewels in the 3185^2,7,8
Power reserve: About 50 hours on the 3185; sources give 48 to 50 for the 3186^1,7,9,10,11
Luminous material: Tritium until about 1997 to 1999, then Luminova and Super-LumiNova^1,3,4,12
Bracelet: Steel Oyster (most often ref. 78360) or Jubilee (ref. 62510H), 20 mm between the lugs; hollow end links on earlier watches, solid end links from about 2000^1,2,4,5
Produced: 1989 to 2007^1,3,11,13,14

Is it genuine?

Rolex's own advice. Asked how to spot a fake, Rolex's FAQ gives no checklist. Its answer is to buy from a jeweller in Rolex's own retail network³², which does not help with a watch that left the catalogue in 2007. None of the checks below proves a watch is genuine, and the best counterfeits pass one or two of them³¹.

The numbers between the lugs. Remove the bracelet. The serial number is engraved between the lugs at six o'clock and the reference number at twelve^30,33. Genuine engravings are deep and crisp and catch the light; fakes are often acid-etched, with a sandy look^30,31,33. Bob's Watches adds that the engravings should match the watch's configuration¹¹.

The hour hand. This is what makes it a GMT-Master II. Setting the hour hand should move it in one-hour jumps, in either direction, without stopping the watch^9,15. On a 3185 the 24-hour hand wobbles slightly while you set the time; on a 3186 it hardly does^1,7.

The dial. The text below six o'clock dates the dial: «SWISS - T<25» for tritium, then «SWISS», then «SWISS MADE»^1,4. Stick dials, with the «II» as two plain strokes, were also fitted as service replacements, Luxury Bazaar says¹.

The bezel insert. An insert can be swapped in minutes, and faded aftermarket inserts are cheap to make¹⁶. Bob's Watches says evenly faded originals add value, while service replacements reduce collectibility¹¹. A ceramic insert does not belong on a 16710; ceramic came to the steel GMT-Master II with the 116710 in 2007^1,11.

The Cyclops lens. It should magnify the date about 2.5 times, so the numeral nearly fills the window, and sit centred over it. A small or distorted date under the lens is a classic counterfeit flaw^30,31,33.

The seconds hand. It sweeps in small steps, about eight a second; a hand that ticks once a second belongs to a quartz movement^30,31. Some counterfeits sweep too, so this proves nothing on its own³³.

Papers. Bob's Watches and Exquisite Timepieces both date the plastic, card-sized warranty card to 2007, the year of the Z and M serials^2,4. A plastic card with a 1990s 16710 is worth asking about. Whatever the papers, the serial on them should match the one between the lugs; Bob's Watches makes that check for modern references¹¹.

Bracelet and clasp. End links and clasp should match the watch's era, as the dating table shows^1,4. Loose, rattling links or a rough clasp are warning signs^31,33.

Ref. 16710 is the second GMT-Master II and, at eighteen years, the longest-running one so far^1,14. It ran from 1989 to 2007, in steel, with an aluminium bezel insert in Pepsi, Coke or black, on an Oyster or a Jubilee: six ways to wear one reference, as Luxury Bazaar counts them^1,3.

It is also the last steel GMT-Master II with an aluminium bezel, which makes it either the final honest pilot's watch or a very handsome way to buy fading, depending on who is selling it^1,6.

From Pan Am to the GMT-Master II

Rolex dates the GMT-Master to 1955 and its partnership with Pan Am; some dealer histories say 1954^2,15,25. In 1982, by Rolex's account, a new movement let the hour hand be set independently of the minute and 24-hour hands, and the watch was renamed GMT-Master II^9,14,15.

The first reference was the 16760, with calibre 3085 and a case thick enough to earn it the nickname «Fat Lady»^3,8,17. Several sources date it to 1983, and most say it came only with a red and black insert, the first Coke^1,3,4,25.

The 16710 arrives

In 1989 the 16710 replaced the 16760^1,2,3. The function stayed; the movement got thinner. Caliber Corner gives calibre 3185 a height of 6.45 mm against 7.2 mm for the 3085, which let Rolex slim the case and lugs^1,8,14.

It was the first GMT-Master II offered with all three inserts^3,14,25. The same generation came in steel and gold as the 16713 and in yellow gold as the 16718^3,26.

Eighteen years of small changes

Rolex did not mark model years, so the changes crept in rather than arrived; the dating table below lists them¹. Two are disputed, the change of lume and the arrival of the 3186; see «Where the sources disagree».

Near the end came two changes collectors now hunt: the stick dial, with the «II» printed as two plain strokes, and calibre 3186^1,4,14. Bob's Watches puts the 3186 in late Z- and M-serial watches from late 2007^2,16.

Inside: calibre 3185, then 3186

Caliber Corner describes the 3185 as calibre 3135 with a 24-hour hand added⁸. It has 31 jewels, runs at 28,800 vibrations an hour and holds about 50 hours of reserve, and the seconds hand stops while you set the time^2,7,8. There is no separate quickset for the date: it moves with the hour hand, forward or backward⁷, which a reader on Caliber Corner counts as two full turns of the hand per day⁸.

The 3186 replaced a simple ratchet with a click spring, which removed the wobble of the 24-hour hand, and added Rolex's blue Parachrom hairspring; Grail Watch says the new arrangement has proved less reliable^1,10. Luxury Bazaar says 3186 examples seem to command a small premium, but not the surge collectors once predicted¹.

Pepsi, Coke or black

Rolex sold one reference with three inserts. Sellers add letters to it, and they do not agree. Bob's Watches and Exquisite Timepieces add A for Coke, B for Pepsi or N for black as the last character, as in 16710A^2,4; the retail price table below reads «16710 T/A/B»¹⁸; listings use BLRO for the Pepsi, and LN on Pepsi and Coke alike^19,22,23. Only in the successor's 116710LN is LN part of Rolex's own reference²⁴.

Luxury Bazaar calls the 16710 the last Coke GMT-Master Rolex made, leaving out the off-catalogue «Icy Coke» versions, and Bob's Watches says Rolex has never made the Coke in ceramic^1,11. It also carried the last aluminium Pepsi: after 2007 the red and blue bezel left steel for eleven years, and Rolex dropped it from the catalogue in April 2026^6,9.

Whether a colour is worth more depends on whom you ask. Luxury Bazaar says the Pepsi commands only a small premium; Bob's Watches credits the Coke with the 16710's recent rise^1,11. On Chrono24, listings titled as Coke asked more than those titled as Pepsi in February and October 2024. In July 2024 the Pepsi led by 9.8 per cent, and in all four archived copies from 2025 by 2.8 to 12.7 per cent^{19,20,21,22,23,27,28}. Only 27 to 40 of the roughly 60 titles on each page name a colour, so read that as a hint.

What came after

Rolex says the GMT-Master II was its first watch with a Cerachrom ceramic insert, in 2005¹⁵. That was the gold 116718LN; the steel 116710LN followed in 2007, at first in black only, with a broader case, a Triplock crown in place of the Twinlock, a «Maxi» dial and an Oyster bracelet only^1,3,11,14. The steel Pepsi returned in 2018 as the 126710BLRO, on a Jubilee and with calibre 3285^6,9,13. Next to all of them, the 16710 is the slim one, with a stamped clasp that feels light by modern standards^4,16.

What it cost, and what it costs

Rolex publishes no historic price list for the 16710. The best record we found is a US-dollar retail price table that began as a handout a Rolex dealer gave the site's author in 2005 and was later extended by its publisher, Minus4Plus6¹⁸. Its steel GMT-Master II line shows USD 3,500 in September 1992, the first figure we can attribute to the 16710 with confidence, and USD 5,750 in March 2008, about 64 per cent more. In September 1996 the steel GMT-Master stood at USD 3,300 against USD 3,500, so the independent hour hand cost about 6 per cent extra¹⁸. It is not a Rolex document.

Pre-owned, we can measure asking prices, from seven archived copies of Chrono24's 16710 page, the latest from October 2025. The first-page median rose about 6.9 per cent in the year to October 2025, from USD 11,944 to USD 12,768, but sat about 5.4 per cent below February 2024's USD 13,499^19,20,21. February 2024 had more stick-dial, error-dial and 3186 listings, ten against four; without them and one gem-set watch, the year is up about 7.3 per cent and the longer window still down about 2.4 per cent. We judge on the year, which compares the same month with the same number of late variants: asking prices fell until January 2025 and had won back more than half of the fall by October 2025^19,21,23. Asking prices are not sale prices.

For sale prices, Bob's Watches reports an average of USD 15,200 for the 16710 across its own sales in the twelve months to August 2026, about 15 per cent above the year before, and a median of USD 15,295 for the 16710 Pepsi from August 2025 to July 2026^6,11. WatchGuys, quoting WatchCharts, puts the 16710 around USD 13,300 in September 2026¹⁶. That is one dealer's sales and one aggregator's estimate, not the market.

Buying one pre-owned

The youngest 16710s are nearly two decades old, so you are buying their history as much as the watch. Bob's Watches warns that the 16710 is a frequent target for franken-watches assembled from parts of different years, and its checklist runs from the engravings and the bezel insert to bracelet codes, service history and paperwork¹¹. A tritium dial in a case without lug holes, or a 3186 behind a 1990s serial, proves nothing by itself, but it is a question to ask before paying.

We found no production figure for the 16710. Bob's Watches says it is the second-best-selling GMT-Master II in its own sales, after the 116710²⁹.

The dubious part

The most sought-after 16710s are the ones where something went slightly off: a bezel the sun has bleached towards pink, or a «II» printed without its serifs^14,16. Sellers call the second an error dial. Luxury Bazaar calls it a typeface¹. In each of the seven archived Chrono24 copies, most listings that mentioned an error or stick dial asked more than the page's median, 23 of 28 in all, and in October 2025 all three did^{19,20,21,22,23,27,28}. The market has sided with the sellers.

The steel GMT-Master II, generation by generation
Reference	Years	Calibre	What changed
16760	c. 1982/83–1988^3,15,25	3085	First GMT-Master II: independent hour hand, thicker «Fat Lady» case, Coke insert^1,3,17
16710	1989–2007^1,3,13	3185, last 3186	Slimmer movement and case; Pepsi, Coke or black; Oyster or Jubilee^1,3,8
116710LN	2007–2019^16,17	3186	Black ceramic insert, broader case, Triplock crown, Maxi dial, Oyster only^3,16,25
126710BLRO	2018–2026^6,9	3285	Red and blue ceramic insert in steel, Jubilee, about 70 hours of reserve^6,9,13

Years marked c. are disputed; see «Where the sources disagree». The GMT-Master 16700 (1988 or 1989 to 1999) ran alongside without the independent hour hand.

How to date a 16710 by its details
Detail	Earlier watches	Later watches
Lume and dial text	Tritium, «SWISS - T<25», until about 1997–1999^1,4	Luminova and Super-LumiNova, «SWISS», then «SWISS MADE» from about 2000–2001^1,4
Oyster end links	Hollow^1,4	Solid, from about 2000¹
Lug holes (for the spring bars)	Drilled through, until about 2002¹	None, from about 2003^1,16
Calibre	3185^1,7	3186 in the last examples^1,2,14
«II» on the dial	With serifs^1,14	Some late dials as two plain strokes, the stick dial^1,4,14
Warranty papers	Paper certificate^2,4	Plastic card from 2007^2,4
Crown in the crystal	None^30,31	On watches from about 2003; Rolex in general from 2002^2,4,30,31
Rehaut (the ring between dial and crystal)	Not engraved¹⁶	Engraved on the final examples only, WatchGuys says¹⁶

Rolex did not mark model years, so each change is approximate and some watches mix features from both columns.

Retail price of the steel GMT-Master II, US dollars
Date	Price	Generation
August 1986	USD 1,625¹⁸	16760; the 16710 did not yet exist
February 1988	USD 2,075¹⁸	16760
February 1989	USD 2,850¹⁸	16760 or 16710; the 16710 arrived that year
September 1992	USD 3,500¹⁸	16710
September 1996	USD 3,500¹⁸	16710
February 2004	USD 4,250¹⁸	16710
February 2005	USD 4,525¹⁸	16710
October 2006	USD 5,075¹⁸	16710
October 2007	USD 5,075¹⁸	16710
March 2008	USD 5,750¹⁸	16710; the table lists the 116710LN at USD 6,825 in the same column

From a US-dollar retail price table that began as a Rolex dealer's handout in 2005, extended since by its publisher, Minus4Plus6 (archived copy, November 2024); figures after February 2005 have no stated source. The line, «Stainless GMT II - 16710 T/A/B», also covers the years before the 16710, so the generation column is our reading. It is not a Rolex document.

Chrono24 median asking price for the 16710, US dollarsMedian, all first-page listingsMedian, excluding modified watches and stick-dial, error-dial or calibre 3186 listings

Our median of the 59 to 61 listings on the first page of Chrono24's 16710 page in archived copies (Internet Archive). The second series leaves out, by title, stick, error, rectangular and 3186 listings, and one gem-set watch in October 2024. In the four 2025 copies the listings carry no currency of their own; the page states US dollars for the whole offer. Asking prices are not sale prices. The latest archived copy is from October 2025.

The numbers behind the chart

Series	Observed	Price
Median, all first-page listings	12 Feb 2024	USD 13,499¹⁹
Median, all first-page listings	19 Jul 2024	USD 12,850²²
Median, all first-page listings	7 Oct 2024	USD 11,944²⁰
Median, all first-page listings	16 Jan 2025	USD 11,772²³
Median, all first-page listings	17 Apr 2025	USD 12,000²⁷
Median, all first-page listings	10 Jul 2025	USD 12,302²⁸
Median, all first-page listings	14 Oct 2025	USD 12,768²¹
Median, excluding modified watches and stick-dial, error-dial or calibre 3186 listings	12 Feb 2024	USD 12,916¹⁹
Median, excluding modified watches and stick-dial, error-dial or calibre 3186 listings	19 Jul 2024	USD 12,825²²
Median, excluding modified watches and stick-dial, error-dial or calibre 3186 listings	7 Oct 2024	USD 11,750²⁰
Median, excluding modified watches and stick-dial, error-dial or calibre 3186 listings	16 Jan 2025	USD 11,682²³
Median, excluding modified watches and stick-dial, error-dial or calibre 3186 listings	17 Apr 2025	USD 11,992²⁷
Median, excluding modified watches and stick-dial, error-dial or calibre 3186 listings	10 Jul 2025	USD 12,075²⁸
Median, excluding modified watches and stick-dial, error-dial or calibre 3186 listings	14 Oct 2025	USD 12,604²¹

Questions people ask

When was the Rolex 16710 made?: From 1989 to 2007^1,3,11,13.
Is the Rolex 16710 still in production?: No. Rolex replaced it in 2007 with the 116710LN, which has a ceramic bezel insert and a broader case^1,3,16. Its steel descendants are the 126710 family; Rolex dropped the Pepsi version in April 2026, and the blue and black and the grey and black versions remain in production^6,11.
Did the 16710 come on a Jubilee bracelet?: Yes, on an Oyster or a Jubilee. The correct Jubilee is the 62510H, and Luxury Bazaar says original ones have «50» stamped on the back of the top link^1,2,3.
What do 16710T, 16710LN and 16710BLRO mean?: Letters that sellers add to the reference, and they do not agree. Luxury Bazaar uses 16710T for the later watches without lug holes, Exquisite Timepieces for tritium dials^1,4. In listings BLRO marks a Pepsi, while LN turns up on Pepsi, Coke and unspecified watches alike^19,21,22,23. Only in the successor's 116710LN is LN part of Rolex's own reference²⁴.
What movement is in the 16710?: Calibre 3185: self-winding, 31 jewels, 28,800 vibrations an hour, about 50 hours of reserve^7,8. The last watches have calibre 3186, with a Parachrom hairspring^1,10,14.
What is a 16710 stick dial or error dial?: A late dial with the «II» printed as two plain strokes instead of serifed Roman numerals^1,4,14. Sellers call it an error dial; Luxury Bazaar calls it a typeface variation, also found on service dials¹.
What did a Rolex 16710 cost new?: In a US-dollar retail table that began as a Rolex dealer's handout: USD 3,500 in September 1992, USD 4,525 in February 2005 and USD 5,750 in March 2008¹⁸. It is not a Rolex document.
What is a Rolex 16710 worth?: Bob's Watches reports an average sale price of USD 15,200 for its own 16710 sales in the twelve months to August 2026¹¹. Chrono24's median asking price was USD 12,768 in October 2025²¹. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What is the difference between the 16710 and the 16700?: The 16700 is a GMT-Master, not a GMT-Master II: its hour hand cannot be set on its own. It was made alongside the 16710 until 1999; its first year and its inserts are disputed^1,13,17.