For the style. Watch aficionados will go on and on and rightly so about watch movements. But for most of us, watches are style statements. We focus on shape, dial colors, straps Dressy leather? Go commando with NATO? All-biz bracelet? The ravishing gold bracelet of the watch outclasses all other specs.
There is an amazing and off-beat contrast as the dial is in green color; however, the watch markers are synonymous to the gold bracelet. The watch can also resist water up to m. On top of all that, there are luminous watch markers for the additional time zone. This Breitling GMT timepiece has a stainless steel case whose width is 43mm. The watch offers mm of water resistance.
Moreover, the watch markers and hands min and hour inside the fully black dial are silver-toned. The seconds hand is given in red, for a change. The outstanding features also include a hour power reserve. The focal point of the IWC Pilot automatic is a beautiful and stainless steel case. In order to incorporate GMT-functionality, another hour hand is added to the dial — as well as a complication within the watch gears itself — that spins around the dial once per day, making it a hour hand.
Typically, this additional hand is arrow-shaped and colored differently from the normal hour hand. Because hours and minutes do not change regardless of timezone, their position has no bearing on GMT functionality outside of their normal time-telling purpose.
But an additional hand is only one part of the equation. Because a normal watch dials only exhibits hour increments even if it has a secondary sub-dial with numbers on it , another means by which the user can read the GMT hand is necessary. This can be found around the dial on the watch case itself.
We mean, of course, the bezel. Similar to dive watches , GMTs use a rotating bezel with 24 incremental markings around the exterior to indicate the 24 hours in a day.
Why does the bezel rotate, then? So you can choose your secondary timezone. Surrounding timezones increase or decrease the hour by plus or minus 1, depending on whether you move east or west. So, setting your GMT watch is a 2-part process. First, you must set the bezel so that your watch reads GMT time, then you can add or subtract hours until your GMT hand points to the proper timezone time.
You can also skip that first bit if you know how to read hour military time and simply rotate your bezel until it points to the proper hour in whichever timezone you desire. For instance, a pilot might want to know both the time in the timezone in which he took off and also the one in which he plans to land. Similarly, if you are one of the millions of people around the world with family in other countries, you could want to know the time wherever they might be, so as not to disturb them in the middle of the night or during dinner.
To set a second time zone, it was thus necessary to turn the bezel. Nowadays, there are more sophisticated movements and they can be generally divided into two types. The first type has an independently adjustable GMT hand, meaning it can be set separately from the local time indicated with the hour hand and is not linked to the date function. The second type links the GMT hand to the minute hand while the normal hour hand is independently adjustable and is linked to the date.
The second kind is considered more of a classic GMT watch and is slightly easier for use while traveling, since flipping the hour hand forward or back without messing with the minute hand is quick and easy as your plane touches down in London or Buenos Aires. Good water resistance, rugged cases and legibility are the hallmarks of the new breed of GMT watches. Today's Best Deals. As you see in the Picture, Greenwich is located on the center zero line, moving East or West will help us determine the time difference.
If you move more towards the East to Cairo as an example then you will add two hours, in that case, it will be 3pm. Moving to the West towards New York, you will go back five hours. So now you have three time zones in one watch. Both watches were introduced at Baselworld You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
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