If you have been one of the many people in the world still holding out hope for an allocation of a Rolex GMT-Master II “Pepsi”, I hate to be the bearer of potentially devastating news. The rumour mill has long spread whispers of AAA Rolex replica watches discontinuing the red and blue “Pepsi” GMT-Master II, but the often-cited reason of “the bezel is too hard to make” has never really sat well with me. Perfect Rolex copy watches are a master manufacturer, and the idea that Rolex is now incapable of executing a consistent hue of its red and blue Cerachrom bezel, well past the initial mark 1, just seems ridiculous. So, I never really took the whispers seriously. But, now there may be a reason to…
As Craig Karger – founder of Wrist Enthusiast and Wren Watches, and a friend of Time+Tide – points out in his recent reel, the Pepsi models are “quietly disappearing” from various cheap replica Rolex watches authorised dealer websites and that more ambitious secondary market pricing for the Pepsi has been popping up recently on platforms like Chrono24. Craig also calls out increased forum chatter that alleges authorised dealers are no longer taking orders for the famous GMT watch and that its production stopped in January – news that would certainly send eager GMT-Master II ref. 126710BLRO buyers into a pit of a panic.
If you were to look at the Rolex website now, you will still find the Pepsi variants in its configurator, which allows you to explore all the possible material, colour, bezel, and bracelet options for replica watches UK. However, as Craig points out, were you to visit the Bucherer website, the Pepsi is no longer showcased as an option, in either Oystersteel or 18k white gold.
This is by no means a confirmation of the discontinuation of the current 1:1 fake Rolex GMT-Master II watches, but it does, perhaps, make what once seemed to more of a borderline conspiracy theory sound more like a based hypothesis.
That being said, I think we all still need to keep an eye on the secondary market pricing element of the argument in favour of China Rolex replica watches discontinuing the GMT-Master II ‘Pepsi’. Though I do see some of the ambitious listings Craig mentions, Chrono24 is well-known for hosting such ambitious listings, and the pricing tracker charts for the ref. 126710BLRO only showcase a 2% increase over the last month and a 3.7% increase over the last 6 months. What concerns me the most is the disappearance of the Pepsi, in any form, on the authorised dealer websites.
The ultimate, lingering questions are: will Rolex fake watches for sale actually discontinue the GMT-Master II ref. 126710BLRO by Watches and Wonders 2026 and if so, will it be replaced by an updated Pepsi GMT-Master II or a long-anticipated configuration like the black and red “Coke” bezel? What personally throws me off is that Rolex cites 1955 as the year the GMT-Master was launched. So, if there was any appropriate time to have a GMT-Master II shakeup, it would have been last year for the 70th anniversary.
It’s hard to imagine a Rolex catalogue without a Pepsi bezel, but, then again, it was not all that long ago that best Rolex clone watches did not have a Pepsi in its catalogue for over a decade (2007 – 2018) in steel. After the discontinuation of the ref. 16710 in 2007, it was not until 2014, seven years later, that a Pepsi configuration debuted in Cerachrom, albeit in a 18k white gold model. And we all know it is the steel variant everyone is most fussed about…
