As the only British watch business to hold the coveted Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award, we are delighted to launch this rare and very special Beachmaster in collaboration with the Spirit of Normandy Trust (SONT). Beachmaster’s patented mission timer is a world first conceived around D-Day; a more fitting way for us to mark the 80th Anniversary is hard to imagine. We'll be donating 10% of the sale price to SONT to help take our D-Day and Normandy Veterans back to France for the anniversary. Limited to just 80 pieces worldwide, each case back is numbered and personalised with your own individual engraving. Each watch will be accompanied by a fantastic collection of memorabilia including: a special edition coin, a limited edition print by military artist and SONT friend, Indigo Zulu Ink, a special commemorative book with forewords from SONT Patron, Lord Dannatt, vignettes from some of the Veterans and a special poem by SONT supporter Rob Aitchison.To top all that off, one of the Veterans will pick a number between 1 and 80 at random. The corresponding watch serial number owner will receive an invite, with guest, to attend a special VIP dinner with the Veterans before they head back for the 80th. The Watch Details: Look closer and bespoke details subtly included within this exclusive model begin to reveal their own story. Highlights include the marker below 6 o'clock/30 minutes picked out in blue, symbolising the start of D-Day at 0630. Brushed bronze hands with vintage sand SuperLuminova and dark brown leather strap are a nod to the era, whilst the deeply stamped and etched case back details the beaches and English Channel. The inner mission timing bezel couldn't be simpler to operate. Imagine you’re nine hours out from mission start, simply rotate the split scale inner bezel via the upper crown and set it nine hours in advance of the GMT hand. The GMT hand will count around the bezel scale to H hour, mission start, then automatically begin it’s journey around the second half of the split inner bezel, counting up to a rendezvous say 11 hours after H hour, mission start. At the same time it’s a GMT automatic with ceramic 60 minute uni-directional divers bezel. Powered by a high grade Swiss Sellita SW330-2 Automatic with 56h power reserve, a heart encased in body armour within a highly effective movement shock protection system. The dial is deftly split into outer and inner dials divided by the finest metallic border, framing a textured inner dial with subtle wavy texture, created from the NATO symbol for amphibious assault. A double arrow GMT hand is simultaneously capable of displaying a second time zone via the inner 24h track whilst also referencing the split inner 24h timing bezel for mission timing duties. View the watch at night or in poor visibility and everything changes. High grade Superluminova glows blue for mission timing and green for normal time checks. Simple, functional, elegant. The case back is of course perfectly straight and true because it’s precisely bolted down, compressing the oversized seal perfectly whilst tensioning the movement shock protection system. If the watch descends into a high pressure environment, the case back seal increases effectiveness like a compressor case back. One turn of the high grip upper mission timing crown is all you need to ‘feel’ the obsessive pursuit of detailed perfection. As the inner bezel moves, spring-loaded ceramic ball bearings plunge in and out of precisely machined chambers, securing the bezel at the required mission start time. If you enjoy mechanically satisfying objects, you’ll appreciate the skills required to deliver a detail so functional but delightful to operate. For the full feature set, expand the Specification and Instruction tabs below.
