The original Rolex Explorer replica watches can be regarded as the Rolex’s very first professional sports watch. Although these rugged timepieces were intended for professional use, they lacked any particular characteristics or complications that would make them specifically tailored to exploration or the outdoors. On the contrary, they were simply highly sustainable, self-winding fake watches that displayed nothing more than the time of day. 
Rolex enlarged their Explorer line of watches with the launch of a special model. Rather than simply being a revised version of the existing Explorer watch, this model was a totally different timepiece.
Designed for speleologists exploring deep caverns below the surface of the earth, this watch was particularly engineered for those living and working for extended periods of time in low-light conditions. Besides, a large, bright orange, arrow-shaped, 24-hour hand was added to serve as a prominent AM/PM indicator, so that its users would not lose their sense of time after spending several days in total darkness.
To provide the extra functionality of a 24-hour hand and date complication, Rolex fitted the Explorer II 1655 with the same 26-jewel, COSC-rated, caliber 1575 movement that they used inside their GMT-Master line of watches. To protect the movement inside, the case of this popular replica watch for sale was full of a thick acrylic crystal and a screw-down and case-back, which provided its users with 100 meters of water resistance.
Because of the large, arrow-shaped, 24-hour hand of this fake watch, it earned the nickname, “Freccione” among many Italian dealers and collectors. Additionally, the watch also acquired the “Steve McQueen” nickname due to a Rolex advertising campaign that featured the popular Hollywood actor. However, it should be noted that no proof exists that McQueen ever actually owned or wore this particular model; instead most photographs show the actor wearing a rolex Submariner in his private life. 
The latest new generation of Explorer II watches featured sapphire crystals and a handset that more closely resembled what Rolex was using on their GMT-Master II line of watches. What’s more, the special dial from the reference 1655 was discontinued and replaced by a one that only had 12-hour markings and more closely resembled the dials on the rest of Rolex’s other sport watch lines.
The replica watch is crucial because it was the very first Explorer II, and no other fake watch that Rolex has ever produced looks anything like it.
