Rolex has recently filed a patent improving the lock and unlock mechanisms of their future chronograph pushers.

Instead of unscrewing the chronograph pushers individually by hand, the outer rim of a bezel would be able to unscrew both pushers at the same time.

While the bezel would remain fixed, in the case of a Daytona or a Yacht-Master II, for example, the outer edge of the bezel could rotate when it is gripped by the wearer. Small teeth placed under the outer rim would connect with and unscrew both chronograph pushers as it rotates, the patent revealed.

These pages reported last month Rolex had filed a patent for a new Yacht-Master II movement. The movement would allow for the use of the pusher at 4 o’clock to set the minute countdown hand by pressing the pusher repetitively, a quicker process than in the current model.

The reference number of the Yacht-Master II is one of the last to still start with “11.” A new reference could be released as early as Apr. 9, 2024.