Fresh from the Showcase here at SwissWatchExpo. Today, we are talking about World Time watches.
We've talked about before that the idea of showing more than one time zone on a watch at the same
time as a novel concept, because people didn't even have the ability to travel from one time
zone to another, in any kind of relevant time until really the railroad age. And that's when
the time zones really were instituted by sort of a World Federation where they got together and
they set up the time zones around the world. There are 24 main times zones that split the world into
24 one hour increments based on where the sun is at noon in that time zone. So they're not exact,
there's a wide expanse on some of those time zones. Some countries
use a one-time zone for the entire country like China, which, auto span five different time zones,
but they use one India ought to be several times zones, but they use one.
So these watches won't tell you the time perfectly in every time zone, but it's pretty close.
A famed Swiss watchmaker named Louis Cottier in 1931, figured out the idea of being able to
show all 24 main time zones at the same time on a watch. This led to the development of
the Patek Philippe World Time. And it's one of the watches that Patek is really known for. We've done
a separate video just on this watch before. So you might look that up, but this is one of my favorite
all time watches. It's the reference 5110P this one's in platinum and it's absolutely gorgeous.
It's a 37 millimeter watch. Really nice size for anyone to wear even day to day, but it's such
a beautiful color with the blue guilloche inner ring and the button here to change the time zones.
So as you change time zones, the GMT ring rotates with the main cities and those times zones.
And you can read the time zone in any place around the world, all at the same time where
a regular GMT watch. It only shows the time zone maybe in home time.
And one other time zone. Sometimes you can turn a bezel to temporarily show a third time zone,
but these show 24 at the same time. So 37 millimeter Patek Phillipe platinum gorgeous
exhibition case back so that you can see that movement with the 22 carat gold micro rotor, the
Cote de Geneve, decorations on the plates, just absolutely stunning. Definitely one of my favorite
watches ever made moving a little bit, across in the science here we have at 38 millimeter,
the brigade Marine or a Monday, which of course means world time. And this one's a little bit
more sparse in the way it looks compared to some of the other world time watches we've got here.
It has the traditional blued steel Breguet hands, and this coin edge to the case,
which is really beautiful. A closed case back, but a little more subtle if you were going to pick
for a world time, watch still on that smallish 37, 38 millimeter classic gentlemen size watch.
Then we move into the bigger ones. If you find yourself being more of a jumbo watch kind of guy,
I mean, look at the size difference between the Breguet and this Breitling Transocean. It's a,
it's a almost shocking difference, but this one's 18 karat Rose gold. It's really thick.
This is a watch that you don't forget you have on for sure, but it's a beautiful design. It's
got the world in the center, mostly black dial, but some red spots here and there,
the size on this one, I know you're dying to know it's 46 millimeter.
It's called the Unitime. And
it's probably the most modern looking of all these watches that we have here this morning.
And you definitely will attract some attention with this one,
more so than where the subtlety of the brigade, the Patek might be a little bit more under the
radar, but it's just absolutely gorgeous. Love the combination of the colors they used on this one,
the size, I mean, nothing to argue with. And it could be a good choice, definitely for a lot of
people. Now, this one, this one is the Omega and this is an Aqua Terra World Timer. And
this one's really the value proposition of the bunch. It's about half the price of any of the
others that are here and a thoroughly modern look. It's an interesting, the center map of
the world on this one is on a titanium plate that is then surrounded by a glass GMT scale.
And I love the blues and this kind of the blue outer section is reminiscent of that teak look,
you know, Omega on the Aqua Terra. They said that the dials, uh, they represent the teak decking on
your yacht. So definitely can see yourself as the yacht master. The one who's in charge
of the yacht, who is also a world timer, part of the jet set and wearing your Omega. This one has
one of my favorite movements we've talked about before. This is the 8938. They call
it on the world timer, but it's essentially the same movement as some of the other coaxial
master chronometers. It has the double barrels. It, the Cote de Geneve in Arabic,
just gorgeous on the movement, exhibition case back. So you can appreciate all that.
If you check out this one on their website, you'll see what I'm talking about, about the pricing.
Of course, this one is steel and the other ones are gold and platinum. So
there's a big difference there. And Omega being a company that's really
prides itself on being the value proposition compared to some of their competitors. You're
going to see a lot more movement for the dollar from Omega than you do from other companies. But
if you want that exclusivity, there's nothing like the paddock. If you want the large size, nothing
like this, Breitling Transocean. And if you like your watches a little more subtle, go with
the brigade, but you can look up some of those other videos we've done on world time watches,
click the bell, like and subscribe and give us a call at SwissWatchExpo. See which ones
of these we still have in stock. We can find the perfect one for you.