The face of the watch is a largely original design, albeit with some apparent cues. The hour markers—a mix of rectangles, circles, and triangles—are a nod to the Submariner. The hours and minutes hands, which are by no means original to Rolex, harken back to the “McQueen” Explorer II. When brought together, however, these two elements don’t feel derivative and give the piece a modern sports watch feel. Contributing to that is the excellent use of blue, which accents the dial and appears on the arrow-tipped seconds hand, the model designation above 6 o’clock, and at every 5-minute interval along the minutes track on the chapter ring. The symmetry of the dial is maintained via a date window at 6 o’clock. Framing the face of the watch is a unidirectional bezel boasting a new ceramic inlay with fully-lumed engraved markers. And speaking of lume, the watch features the ever-popular SuperLuminova BGW9.