{"id":85096,"date":"2022-11-21T14:42:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=85096"},"modified":"2022-11-21T14:47:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:47:15","slug":"the-elliot-brown-beachmaster-a-watchpro-salon-crowd-pleaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/the-elliot-brown-beachmaster-a-watchpro-salon-crowd-pleaser\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elliot Brown Beachmaster: a WATCHPRO Salon crowd-pleaser"},"content":{"rendered":"
Among the keen reactions to Elliot Brown\u2019s latest launch earlier this month was the following from veteran watch journalist and collector Ken Kessler, who said: <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cOne of the pleasant surprises for me at WATCHPRO Salon in November was discovering Elliot Brown and the brand\u2019s Beachmaster. I am a sucker for GMTs and this one adds a new look and additional functionality as well. Best of all, it was remarkable value. Bravo!\u201d<\/p>\n Elliot Brown\u2019s relationship with WATCHPRO goes back to the brand\u2019s early days, when it debuted at the 2013 WATCHPRO London Watch Show. Now with a solid reputation for creating military-grade timepieces for organisations including Land Rover, Mountain Rescue England & Wales and the RNLI, Elliot Brown watches are made to stand up to the most challenging conditions.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n With the Beachmaster collection, which is available to pre-order for January delivery, the brand has entered a new phase of advanced research and development, presenting a high-performance, automatic GMT with a patented 24-hour click-lock, mission timing, dual time-zones, ceramic divers\u2019 bezel, 56-hour power reserve and 300 metres of water-resistance, thanks to the hydraulically stamped and bolted down caseback.<\/p>\n Brand founders Alex Brown and Ian Elliot were on hand at Salon to talk through the unique mission timing function that uses the GMT 24-hour hand and split internal bezel to count down up to12 hours to mission start and then automatically count up to 12 hours from start time.<\/p>\n The original idea for the complication that is unique to the Beachmaster came from a request from the Royal Marines who wanted a countdown and count-up function without the use of sub-dials.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt needed to be bombproof yet beautifully considered with our DNA and unique EB design language in abundance,\u201d says an Elliot Brown spokesperson.<\/p>\n The standard hour, minute and seconds hands are used to time events of shorter durations using the 60-minute external countdown bezel. Despite the complexity of the function, the genius lies in how easy the Beachmaster is to set and operate.<\/p>\n The 40mm case is in satin-brushed steel with polished steel highlights or an antique-finish bronze-PVD finish. The sunray black dial has applied indices and lashings of bi-colour Super-LumiNova, all protected by a 2mm domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating.<\/p>\n