You guys may have changed my mind on this decision. I was leaning toward the blue but your photos and ideas about the singularity of the grained grey dial is appealing to me. I have the black and blue gmt II and some other blue oriented dials and have always favored blue but the idea of somehing very different in the grained grey dial only found on the yachmaster 1 is definietely appealing. I will go to the AD and try them both on and see which one speaks to me the most at that time.