Yema has introduced the Navygraf Barracuda CMM.20 Limited Edition, a 400-piece dive watch designed in collaboration with the Marine Nationale and informed by the requirements of submarine crews. Named after France’s Barracuda submarine program, the model gives the 1970s-derived Navygraf a more technical material palette while preserving its compact proportions.
The brushed 316L stainless steel case measures 39 mm across and 46 mm from lug to lug. Its 9.75 mm case profile excludes the 2.5 mm double-domed sapphire crystal, which adds much of the watch’s vintage curvature. Water resistance is rated to 300 meters, supported by a screw-down crown bearing the Marine Nationale insignia.
Forged carbon covers the dial and bezel, producing an irregular compressed-fiber pattern unique to each example. The 120-click unidirectional bezel uses a countdown scale with a red 20-minute sector intended to reference submarine synchronization procedures. A matte red minute hand separates the principal timing indication from the white hour and seconds hands. Super-LumiNova C1 Grade A appears on the hands, applied markers, and bezel graduations.
A red-tinted sapphire caseback continues the submarine theme. The color recalls the low-level red illumination used aboard submarines, allowing personnel to read instruments without substantially compromising their adaptation to darkness. An engraving of the French submarine forces insignia sits at its center.
Visible beneath the crystal is Yema’s CMM.20 automatic caliber. Designed, manufactured, assembled, and regulated at the company’s Morteau workshops, the movement employs a tungsten micro-rotor to maintain a slim profile. It operates at 28,800 vibrations per hour, delivers a 70-hour power reserve, and is regulated to a stated accuracy of -3/+7 seconds per day. The same architecture helped define the Yema Skin Diver CMM.20, although the Barracuda places it inside a more explicitly military composition.
The Navygraf Barracuda is priced at $2,590 on a black NATO strap with a white center stripe or $2,890 on an H-link steel bracelet with tool-free micro-adjustment. Purchases also include a commemorative patch marking the French Navy’s 400th anniversary while supplies last. Its naval references are not especially subtle, but the functional foundation—strong legibility, countdown timing, substantial water resistance, and a thin micro-rotor movement—keeps the concept from resting on insignia alone.
