The Yacht-Master has been a confidently top-end variation on the Submariner theme ever since it released back in 1992. Only available in the most precious metals, including being the watch to introduce the fake Rolex’s own steel and platinum alloy Rolesium to the world, it has always been aimed squarely at the perfectly and costly active lifestyle market.
So the launch of the two Everose gold, black dial versions two years ago attracted some luxuriously active eyebrows. With nothing quite like it emerging from the Rolex lair before, the 40mm replica watch and its smaller brother, the 37mm model played host to several pioneering features.
They became the first Yacht-Masters to sport matt black dials, a more restrained but still unmistakably masculine element which is echoed across onto the sandblasted bezels; again, the only time Cerachrom has been used in the series.
Housing two different calibers, the Cal. 3135 inside the 40mm version has been a staple of the replica Rolex watches for nearly 30 years, but the 2236 that powers the 37mm is their first movement to contain a silicon composite, or Syloxi, hairspring. Found originally in the ladies Datejust Pearlmaster range, the smaller Yacht-Master became the first men’s watch with the movement.
But it’s the bracelet, the complicated black Oysterflex band, which marked the biggest departure from the norm. What could well be mistaken for a simple rubber strap actually keeps completely true to the fake Rolex’s prevailing theory that anything worth engineering is worth over-engineering.
Overall, the dramatically different Yacht-Master duo has proved greatly popular. The unorthodox combination of Everose and black gives the watch an aura of coolness it hasn’t had before and has also made its way onto the latest generation of the watch world’s current hottest player, the Cosmograph Daytona.
As a matter of fact, there’s just one debating point that remains amongst the brand faithful. The Yacht-Master is the only sports watch in the range to be offered in a choice of sizes. 
While, out of the Yacht-Master range, the black dial and bezel variants are completely the least showy, and the 37mm case is also a popular choice for men content to wear a very discreet watch; one that doesn’t need to shout, fits more comfortably under a shirt sleeve and benefits from a lighter overall weight.
As for the 40mm watch, which would have been thought about exceptionally large a few decades ago, is now very much an average. With that Everose effect of wearing smaller than the actual size, even men with slender wrists who usually opt for more modest pieces have been making up its mind to wear the bigger of the two models.
For an added bonus, with the contemporary thinking of bigger equals better, 40mm Yacht-Masters are enjoying a healthier resale value on the pre-owned market, if you decide you want to sell it on at some point down the road.
Whatever your decision is, what you’ll come away with is a very interesting chapter in Rolex’s long running story. The Swiss watchmaking colossus has a history of quietly releasing radically altered variants on some of their most timeless designs. These two replica watches appeared with very little fanfare and have gone on to become real favorites among the brand’s devotees.
Two Sizes for the Replica Rolex Yacht-Master
