V-Max is a watch commissioned by Chronomaster Ltd.  Specialist watchmakers have built it to a specification determined by us.  It is designed to a hard wearing and practical specification and priced at a sensible level so as to make the watch affordable to most people.  It is also designed to be worn either as an everyday watch or as a beater.  Function and form have been the prime most considerations when laying out the specification.  This is because it is meant to be a utility type watch.  To this end it has been well constructed using high grade materials, crystal, dial and movement using Swiss materials.  It has a military feel to it and the dial is based on the 1960’s Vietnam era military watches.  The case is made out of solid high grade 316 L stainless steel, which has a sandblasted finish.  The case is large and heavy.  It has got a screw down crown which is engine turned to allow easy use of the crown.  The case back is screw down and these two combined give the watch a water rating of 200 metres.  It also has a scratch resistant sapphire crystal which is a hard glass and can only be scratched by material of equivalent strength or stronger than sapphire.  The bracelet is a solid link bracelet with solid end links where it attaches to the watch.  It is sandblasted/polished finish.  The clasp is a folding clasp with double push button security release as well as a fliplock safety clasp.  It has got a uni directional ratchet operated rotating bezel with a full 60 minute scale which can be used for independent timing of up to one hour.  The movement is a Swiss made Ronda quartz powered movement.  The dial and hands are constructed in Switzerland by MB-Microtec.  Their ability to manufacture luminous dials is the result of decades of research and development work in the field of radio luminescence. Small glass tubes are coated on the inside with luminous matter, filled with gaseous tritium and then sealed airtight.  The electrons emitted by the tritium gas cause activation of the luminous matter without the need to external light charging. There are 12 tritium tubes providing the luminescence.   The minute and hour hands also contain the tritium tubes making them luminous.  The luminescence is green for the dial and hands and orange at the 12 o’clock.  The watch is brand new, with a one year warranty, comes in a tin with warranty card.  Dimensions are: width is 44 mm excluding the crown, 46 mm including the crown, 48 mm lug to lug and 15 mm thick.  Ref. VMF 450.  Price is £125 or US $235