What is up with the Yachmaster?

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Originally Posted by MesaSean

What are your thoughts on the Yachtmaster..?

My thoughts may not be very popular but you did ask..

I think the later 6digit watches are acceptable, just not the ones I would choose over a Sub or a GMT.. however I think most of the earlier 5digit watches are fugly.

Most?

yeah..95% of them..

..you see the very early YM looked just like a Submariner, it shared the same case - profile, chamfered lugs, same crown guards and the bracelet had the same SEL's, it was all the same and in my opinion it was a stunner, better than the equivalent Submariner - which it was intended to be!

..but then they loused it all up. It was too alike the Submariner so they decided to change it, trouble is a Submariner is a thing of perfect beauty and cannot be improved upon so any change was a backward step.. just look what they did

It's like they had no idea what to do and went mad on the polishing wheel with a perfect Sub.. the lugs - they buffed them right off and then shined up what was left over, the lovely crown guards got buffed and rounded off and also they stretched out and elongated the SEL's beyond the case.. how on earth they agreed this was an improvement is beyond me..

So to summarise, I would have an early 18k YM or a later 6digit.. but the ones in the middle are just not for me..