For a collection of only 12 watches, you won’t find one elsewhere in the brand that diverges so much in aesthetics. On the one hand, you have the classic Yacht-Master look – a luxuriously softened submariner with all the swoop, gentle lines, and precious metals in all the right places.
On the other hand, there’s an uncompromisingly sporty watch with a high-tech, indestructible ceramic bezel and one of the world’s finest rubber straps.
It’s amazing the difference that a simple change of strap and bezel can make to the overall visual effect of a piece. Pull someone new to watchmaking off the street and show them examples from both ends of the Yachtmaster collection, and they may think they are looking at a completely different collection.
This is a unique phenomenon in replica Rolex products. If you take the two richest and most color-changing watch collections they offer: Day-Date and Datejust, they have vastly different styles within their respective groups. But a Datejust is always a Datejust; whether it’s the smooth bezel in all steel or the fluted frame and intricate Jubilee strap in yellow Rolesor, the basics are always there and immediately recognizable, and that’s not even taking into account the infinite dial color options.
The only collection close to the split personality of the Yacht Prestige is the Daytona for the same reason. It also has examples of metal bezels and straps that look worlds apart from those with Cerachrom surrounds and Oysterflex straps.
As a result, the fake Rolex Yacht-Master, one of the more dull and more conservative models on the books at the time of its release, has been transformed into some of the most dynamic in recent years. Here, we take a look at how and when this metamorphosis began and compare the men’s and women’s versions of this unique name.
