This $369 Chronograph Brings Back a Coveted Vintage Style
As for the design of the watch, it’s straight out of the mid-century. The case measures 38.5mm across and has twisted lugs, pump-style pushers and is topped by a 2mm tall domed Hesalite crystal.
The watch is water resistant to 100m — which will come in pretty handy should you actually wear this thing on a boat — and features BGW9 Super-LumiNova on its hands for nighttime readability.
But let’s be real, the star of the show here is the dial. In recreating its own vintage design, Yema has brought all of the quirks of its mid-century watch to its modern catalog.
The 9 o’clock chronograph register is a thirty-minute counter split into six five-minute segments of varying bright colors, ideal for timing the 15-minute pre-race countdowns. This subdial is also larger to make it even more pronounced and legible, another favored vintage quirk known as a “big eye” chronograph.
The 3 o’clock subdial is a 24-hour counter, which is not drawn from the vintage model but is instead a function of the VK63 movement. It features an inverted Swiss cross colored to match one of the colors from the other subdial, which is a style borrowed from the 12-hour counter on some vintage examples. Minimized at 6 o’clock is the running seconds counter, which is color-matched to the dial.
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