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Here's my line of thought:

I can hardly swim, but from all the blurb I've read regarding the He valve on the regular SMP, it's primary purpose is to serve professional divers that have spent several days in a diving bell far below sea level, to vent the watch while descending.

However, one would think that those people don't actually use the diving bezel to time decompression and dive times, but that they operate solely under control of a supervisor on their mother ship. I've also read this on Timezone, so it must be true. ;-)

Enter the Rolex Explorer II. The legend has it that the Explorer II was made for speleologists who spend a number of days inside caves and need to keep track of whether it's day or night.

With that in mind, wouldn't a He valve on the GMT make perfect sense? When our professional diver wakes up and sees that it's 9 o'clock, how will he determine if he's overslept or if he has woken up after only half an hour of sleep? By looking at the GMT hand, of course!

This is why I think that the GMT needs a He valve to be complete.

Thanks for reading. ;-)

-hacmac