Fake Rolex Yacht-Master 40: Superlative Features

Summer will come sooner or later and therefore someone will end up using (or telling about) the excuse of not being able to do without buying a Rolex Yacht-Master 40. After all, a watch enthusiast spends half his time dreaming about them, and the remaining to study how to buy them and, of course, how to justify his latest compulsive reaction. If you already know everything about the new Yacht-Master – and maybe also about the other 2016 news – jump straight to the features and price section.

Rolex Yacht-Master 40: Origins

Close relative of the Submariner, of which – in an incomprehensible way to me – he has never been able to even approach the successes of the most desired diver in the world, this (always for me) class sportsman that I had in the fifteen years ago in the reference 16622 with platinum dial and bezel, in reality it appeared for the first time in 1967. At the time Rolex made just two copies (ed. it was also a chronograph) which one is owned by the Blues star Eric Clapton, known as “watch sick”.

Find out the rest by reading the article History and Origins of the Rolex Yacht-Master article that I published exactly 5 years ago translating a fantastic reportage in Italian courtesy of the great expert and colleague blogger Jake Elrich.

Rolex Yacht-Master 40: The News

In 2016, Rolex introduced a Rolex Yacht-Master 40 for the first time with the combination of 904L steel / 18 ct Everose gold. league owner of the Maison.

A new chocolate dial has been added to this new shell.

That’s all for aesthetics. Those who love steel and gold watches will find a breath of elegance but discreet for a timepiece that, thanks to its strong personality, has always distanced itself from other Rolex sports watches. Unless you get tired you can always keep it tied to your wrist and he will never make you look bad.

Rolex Yacht-Master 40: New superlative chronometer certification

I had already written it in the news of last year Rolex continues to update its automatic manufacturing movements to comply with new and more rigid chronometric certification parameters that it has imposed itself.

Now the movement is being tested in cash, equally – and I will never tire of remembering it – to the German watchmaking vision that has been doing it for several years. At the same time as guaranteeing waterproofness, automatic winding, and autonomy, the Maison of Geneva declares that in this case the Caliber 3135 which animates the Rolex Yacht-Master 40 provides precision with a maximum deviation of +2 / -2 seconds per day, well at below the COSC parameters.

Rolex Yacht-Master 40: Features and price

Technical specifications
Reference: 116621
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Material: Everose Rolesor (combination of 904L steel and 18 ct Everose gold), polished finish
Diameter: 40 mm

Lunetta
Bidirectional rotating graduated bezel 60 minutes in 18 ct Everose gold, graduations and shiny numbers in relief

Glass
Material: Sapphire, with cyclopean lens at 3 o’clock on the date display, double anti-reflective treatment
Clock face
Color: Chocolate, soleil finish

Indicators
Type: Highly legible Chromalight (long lasting emission luminescence) applied in 18k rose gold

Movement
Caliber: 3135
Type: Automatic with bidirectional winding via Perpetual rotor
Frequency: 4 Hz – 28,800 vibrations / hour
Details: Parachrom blue spiral paramagnetic Rolex curve
Large rocker with variable inertia
High precision calibration by means of 4 gold Microstella nuts. Through balance bridge
Accuracy: −2 / + 2 sec./day, with recessed movement
Functions: hours, minutes, seconds, date

Bracelet
Type: Three-link Oyster
Material: Rolesor Everose (combination of 904L steel and 18 ct Everose gold), central glossy elements, satin and glossy side elements on the sides

Price

The Rolex Yacht-Master 40 Everose gold steel has a list price of 13.100 Euros

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Rolex Yacht-Master 40: Conclusions

Starting from the reference 16622, and passing through the current fake rolex 116622, over the years the Yacht-Master has also made progress, despite the usual slow pace of Rolex, it is not always easy to notice the changes.

Although following my personal tastes, I would choose the last Rolesium appeared in 2012 with a blue dial, this sportsman has always a great class and now that his chronometric performances have become truly superlative, for those who want a timepiece of the non-first-rate brand wants to get out of the rut, there is one more reason to buy it.