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Model reference: 116618LB-0002
A 40 mm yellow-gold Submariner Date with a blue dial, a blue sixty-minute bezel insert and a matching gold three-link bracelet with the date under its magnifier.
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About this watch
This is the 40 mm Submariner Date in full gold, shown with a blue dial and a blue bezel insert. The photographs also make the scale visible: a triangle at the top of the bezel, individual minute divisions across the first quarter, then numerals every ten minutes around the rest of the ring.
The gallery covers three different questions. The straight-on frame settles the dial and bezel colours together; the angled frame shows how the gold numerals sit inside the blue insert as the light changes; the case-back frame shows the shape of the mid-case and the bracelet folded behind it. Details that only the individual watch can answer — the movement fitted, the metal of the offered piece, its measured weight and its water-resistance state — are raised in the conversation rather than stated as fact here.
The bezel is an elapsed-time scale, not a printed table. Line the triangle up with the minute hand, and the gap that opens between them is the number of minutes that have passed. The first fifteen minutes are divided individually because short intervals are the ones people actually measure.
What sets this configuration apart visually is that the numerals are gold rather than white: they are read against the blue of the insert, which keeps the bezel and dial in one colour family while the case supplies the contrast. Turning the bezel is a separate check from reading it, so the action and any play in it are worth inspecting on the actual watch.
This reference belongs to the earlier 40 mm generation. The case is a millimetre smaller, and the lugs are shaped differently from the current 41 mm case, which changes how the bracelet leaves the case and how much of the wrist the watch covers.
Case diameter alone never answers a fit question. Lug-to-lug length, case thickness and the taper of the first bracelet links decide how the watch sits, and on a gold bracelet the weight distribution matters just as much. Ask for those measurements on the offer actually being discussed instead of reading them off a reference sheet.
The dial is blue with a brushed finish that runs outward from the centre, so its tone shifts with the angle of view — deep in the flat-on frame, lighter and more metallic in the angled one. The date sits at three o’clock under a raised lens in the crystal.
The lens is the reason the date area occupies more of the dial than a bare aperture would, and it is the quickest way to tell a date reference from a no-date one at a distance. Whether the date changes cleanly and how the lens reads at an angle are both checkable on a video of the watch rather than a still image.
The layout is the familiar dive-watch set: a triangle at twelve, rectangular markers at three, six and nine, and round markers elsewhere, with a minute track printed outside them. The hour hand carries a broad segmented disc near its tip and the minute hand is the longer, narrower one.
That difference in shape is what keeps the two hands apart in low light or when they overlap. In the photographs the light-coloured fills and the metal surrounds are clearly visible; how long they stay bright is a property of the individual watch and is demonstrated separately, not inferred from a product photo.
Three links run across the width, with broad outer links and a narrower centre link, all in the same gold tone in these frames. The clasp on this generation is the folding safety type, and the links are long, which is one reason a full-gold bracelet feels different on the wrist from its two-tone relative.
The practical questions are how many links can be removed, whether spare links come with the watch and how much adjustment the clasp offers. Scratches on polished gold links are also easier to see than on brushed steel, so the condition of the bracelet and the clasp is worth requesting close-up photographs of.
In this collection the Submariner is offered in a no-date silver-tone reference, a black-dial date reference, a green-insert date reference, a two-tone reference and now this full-gold blue reference. The scale is the same idea across all of them; the metal and the insert colour are what change.
Choosing full gold is a decision about colour and weight rather than about function: the blue insert and the gold case read quite differently from the blue dial on a steel-and-gold bracelet. Bring the reference, your wrist measurement and your country into the inquiry so the answer matches the piece you are asking about.
Specification
| Detail | Description |
|---|---|
| Model reference | 116618LB-0002 |
| Model size | 40 mm |
| Dial | Blue, with an outward-brushed finish |
| Dial print | Brand and line lettering above the centre; depth rating printed below |
| Hour-marker layout | Triangle at 12; rectangles at 3, 6 and 9; rounds elsewhere |
| Hand arrangement | Segmented disc hour hand, longer minute hand, thin centre seconds |
| Date display | 3 o’clock, under a magnifying lens |
| Bezel design | Unidirectional sixty-minute scale, blue insert |
| Bezel graduations | Triangle at the start, individual minutes across the first fifteen, numerals every ten minutes |
| Bezel numerals | Gold-tone in the gallery photographs |
| Bracelet design | Three-link, gold-tone throughout in the photographs |
| Clasp | Folding safety clasp with a length-adjustment extension |
| Colour combination | Blue dial and blue bezel insert with a yellow-gold case and bracelet |
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