Series
The Yacht-Master 40 is a sports design built around a bezel that puts its sixty-minute scale on the ring itself: raised numerals in a polished finish sit on a matte-look surface, so the scale is read by the shape and reflection of the numbers rather than by print on a flat insert. In this collection it appears as one 40 mm configuration with a blue dial, a red-toned seconds hand and a three-link bracelet. What the bezel of an individual watch is actually made from is confirmed in the conversation.
In this collection
A blue dial with a red-toned seconds hand, and a bezel whose sixty-minute scale is raised and polished rather than printed.
This collection lists a small number of configurations. Series not shown here can still be discussed — send the model and reference and availability is checked for you.
Design notes
Most scales in this collection are printed and read against a hand: a dive bezel measures sixty minutes against the minute hand, and a tachymeter converts elapsed seconds into a rate. This design does something different with the same sixty-minute idea. The numbers are three-dimensional elements standing up from the ring, each one polished, set against a surface that is left matte so the numerals separate from their background. In a photograph the effect is visible from across the frame: the ring shows a band of even, non-reflective grey with bright figures interrupted around it, and the chapter marks between the numerals are cut into the surface rather than printed on it. That also changes how the bezel ages visually — a raised numeral can be polished where a printed one can only be replaced — but the finish of any particular bezel is a question about that watch. The design turns in both directions and carries no graduation finer than the minute steps, which is why it is described here as a scale for marking a position rather than as a dive-timing instrument.
This design takes the case-and-bracelet language of the dive watches and removes the parts that make them tools. The bezel does not lock into one-direction rotation, there is no magnified date problem to solve, and the dial keeps a single twelve-hour reading with nothing printed around the outside beyond the minute track. What it adds is the one colour accent in the collection: a seconds hand finished in a red tone, which makes the running seconds obvious from a distance and gives the blue dial a second colour to sit against. That places it between the plain sports designs and the dress designs here — closer in shape to a diver, but finished with a bezel that is meant to be looked at as much as used. Model reference and case size are listed on the watch page; the material and finish of the bezel on the watch being offered, the fitted movement, the measured dimensions and any test evidence are all confirmed in the conversation before anything is agreed.
These notes describe the design as it appears in the photographs on this site. Movement, water resistance, weight and material composition are not stated here, because those belong to the specific unit being offered and are confirmed in the conversation before anything is paid.
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