As for what ramps up the Aston Martin of it all, that’s (mostly) relegated to the caseback, with some more subtle features on thedial side. Under the cambered sapphire glass is a black carbon dial flecked with Aston Martin racing green. For good measure, the chronograph counter seconds hand is hard to miss, with a neon-greenish/yellow tinge that matches the F1 team’s accent colors. The same neon shade is used for the stitching of the embossed leather strap. This certainly isn’t the traditional strap one thinks of when conjuring a classic Navitimer in the mind’s eye.
At first glance, the always busy Navitimer dial seems fairly subdued, but a closer look reveals plenty of textures and colors that contrast with the classic white subdials and the white applied indexes with an Arabic numeral at 12 o’clock. In addition to the date at 6 o’clock, the watch features all the classic Navitimer counters surrounding the bezel, allowing one to still calculate things like airspeed, time of climb and descent, fuel consumption, time en route, and unit conversions using the circular slide rule bezel. The hands, save for the zippy chrono seconds hand, are simple and unobtrusive, with flat white (and lume-filled) hour and minute hands, and black hands on the 60-second, 30-minute, and 12-hour totalizer subdials.