Vanguard Amethyst
- Case
- Stainless steel · 40 × 10 mm
- Dial
- Ombré sunburst
- Bezel
- Fluted, polished
- Crystal
- Hardened, sapphire-coated
- Movement
- Japanese quartz, day-date
- Accuracy
- Under a second a day
- Water resistance
- 50 m / 5 ATM
- Weight
- Approx. 137 g
A deep amethyst sunburst under a gold-finished case — near-black at the rim, opening to violet at the centre as the light moves. A colour almost nobody else is making, and the reason this one gets noticed.
Forty millimetres of stainless steel finished in gold, ten thin, about 137 grams. Fluted bezel, integrated bracelet, the day spelled out at twelve and the date at three under a cyclops. The clasp and case back are left as bare steel.
Sizing
Add your wrist measurement with Size it for me above and the bracelet is sized before it ships, with any links we remove sent alongside. Any watchmaker can also adjust an integrated bracelet in a few minutes.
In the box
The watch, a rigid black presentation box with a velvet interior, a black plastic warranty card and a hang tag. Branding is silver with the Olive and gold with the Amethyst.
Shipping, returns & warranty
Tracked shipping worldwide, rates calculated at checkout. Thirty days to return it unworn. Two-year international warranty covering movement and manufacture, recorded on the card in the box.
We size it before it ships.
Measure your wrist with a tape or a strip of paper, snug but not tight. Enter the measurement below and the watch arrives sized, with any links we remove sent with it.
What you notice first.
The dial
Brushed into a sunburst before the colour is applied, then shaded darker toward the rim. Open and bright in daylight, close to black indoors.
The bezel
Each flute cut and polished separately, so the bezel catches light before the dial does as your wrist turns.
On the wrist
Forty millimetres across, ten thin, about 137 grams of solid steel. Presence without sitting high on the wrist.
Left alone
Under a second a day, three years on a battery, and 50 metres of water resistance. Day and date advance on their own.
Where the colour moves.
Hundreds of fine lines are cut from the centre outwards before any colour goes on, so light travels across the surface rather than sitting on it. The shading takes the rim down almost to black while the centre stays open. Applied polished batons, Arabic 6 and 9, and the V at twelve. The day is spelled out in full at twelve; the date sits at three beneath a cyclops lens that magnifies it.
Ref. 500388, in detail.
Case
316L stainless steel, 40 mm across and 10 mm deep. Brushed across the flats, polished along the bevels, with a fluted bezel and a screw-down crown. Water resistant to 5 ATM.
Movement
Miyota calibre 2350 — Japanese quartz with day and date. It holds time to under a second a day, where a certified mechanical watch is permitted six, and runs about three years on an SR626SW cell.
Engraving
The case back carries VANTOS VANGUARD with 316L stainless steel, sapphire coated crystal, reference 500388 and water resistant 5ATM. The crown carries the V, the clasp the reference.
Bracelet
Integrated stainless steel running straight out of the case, tapering from 25 to 18 mm, with a steel clasp left unplated on both finishes.
The numbers.
- Reference
- 500388
- Case
- 316L stainless steel
- Size
- 40 mm × 10 mm
- Bezel
- Fluted, polished
- Dial
- Ombré sunburst, applied indices
- Crystal
- Hardened, sapphire-coated
- Cyclops
- Over the date
- Movement
- Japanese quartz, day-date (Miyota 2350)
- Accuracy
- Under a second a day (±20 s / month)
- Battery
- SR626SW, approx. 3 years
- Water resistance
- 50 m / 5 ATM
- Functions
- Hours, minutes, seconds, day, date
- Bracelet
- Integrated, 25 → 18 mm
- Clasp
- Stainless steel, unplated
- Weight
- Approx. 137 g
- Warranty
- 2 years, international
- In the box
- Box, warranty card, hang tag