The document you see below is strange, to say the least. It came to me via Eric Wind (former HODINKEE contributor and proprietor of Wind Vintage), who himself saw it posted in the Vintage Rolex Forum Facebook group (though a little digging shows that this popped up on PuristsPro back in 2013 and Rolex Forums in 2006 too). It's a statement issued by Rolex in 1959, through their authorized dealers in the United States, to address fears that resulted from the recall of the original ref. 6542 GMT-Master. In case you don't know, the GMT's Bakelite bezel was radioactive (there's some debate as to exactly what in the bezel was the biggest culprit here) and Rolex recalled the watches, offering to retrofit them with aluminum bezels. This is one reason why original Bakelite GMTs are relatively rare today. It turns out that another reason is that they were imported and sold in small quantities too – this document asserts that only 605 total Bakelite GMTs were imported to the United States, including both the stainless steel and solid 18k gold models. Check it out: