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Yacht Master II ... Seriously


BobM

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Yes, yes ... I know so many of y'all think this is the ugliest hunk of wrist metal to come along in a long time, but ... Some others of us really are interested in this watch. I am. And I am prepared to defend my interest in the watch, if anybody requires that.

What I really want to know is, by when we might expect to see a good replication of this watch? By, say, 1st of the year, you think? :g:

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What I really want to know is, by when we might expect to see a good replication of this watch? By, say, 1st of the year, you think? :g:

If, by good replication you mean running seconds at 6:00 with a chronograph and a countdown timer that's programmed using a rotating bezel complication that's integrated into the movement, I'm going to guess: never.

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I'm not sure that a correctly printed subdial and proper crownguards will make that watch. You'll still have the issue of the appearance of a second hand that doesn't function, a constantly running stopwatch, and an extra hand that doesn't do anything. I can't imagine the demand for such a thing would warrant its production.

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oh you wait.. they will throw a sec@6 from a daytona in there or something to get the functioning subdial... Then we'll have a another timebomb to talk about...

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the watch would look much much better if they took the big "YACHTMASTER II" off the bezel... Im sure the asian movement companies will eventually come up with a running sec@6 for this model but as for the other complications, i seriously doubt it. The gen is a very advanced watch.

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I don't think we would get a good YMII rep:

1.) It's a new in-house movement from Rolex with running sec@6 + 10minutes count-down function (No ETA/Asian movement could do this, if they going to mod the existing movement. Can u trust a problematic-movement? Have u read about the most beautiful POS Rolex Daytona sec@6? )

2.) As Angus told us before; case size, Lug-size...almost everything are totally different size with the current Rolex collection. I think it's too expensive for watchmaker to develope a whole new thing just for 1 model only....Even they do; How many people willing to pay for it? (Did u notice the price of HBB, Cantier Santo?)

3.) Ceramic material are very difficult to source for maker & the product cost of a cermaic bezel is extremely high.

Once a again, forget about it..... :(

Best regards,

Raymond

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... you know.. if you took a stainless steel Yachty2 case.. black dial and used a new ceramic GMT black bezel and/or insert... you might have something cool.. and well ya fix those crown guards a bit becasue they look too rounded and wimpy.. maybe someone here with some skills can photoshop one up for us..

:g:

Lonnie

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oh you wait.. they will throw a sec@6 from a daytona in there or something to get the functioning subdial... Then we'll have a another timebomb to talk about...

I just got this daytona with zenith 31 jewel movement and the running seconds @6 works great, they should put that in the YM

What?!?!

*EXACTLY*

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