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Anyone use their GMT function?
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerYou should be writing for Hodinkee. This is a great review of the next XXX GMT model 😁😁 Short, honest and low on the usual repetitive hyperbole 😀
I'm guessing Hodonkey would not appreciate my writing style. 😀
What I also meant is that the non-GMT AT also have this quick set feature. Same for the other brands, say a Date Just?
People love this, right up until the hour wheel fails...
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Wetworks
·I have a GMT, and I've used the functions for it perhaps twice. I love the watch, that's why I bought it, plain and simple. I have other watches with different features I take advantage of more, but I still loved the watch, that's why I bought it. There used to be a time that was all anyone on here needed to say to defend a purchase. But some of the responses in here right now.....bruh. 🙄😗😁
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerI have a GMT, and I've used the functions for it perhaps twice. I love the watch, that's why I bought it, plain and simple. I have other watches with different features I take advantage of more, but I still loved the watch, that's why I bought it. There used to be a time that was all anyone on here needed to say to defend a purchase. But some of the responses in here right now.....bruh. 🙄😗😁
I've said many times on many forums, the only justification I need to buy a watch is if I like it or not. But that's a different question to how useful the particular complication on that watch might be. I owned a moon phase watch for a long time, and I had no need to track the moon phases...but I liked how it looked.
The OP's question was about the usefulness of the complication. You have answered - you don't use it so not terribly useful for you.
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Nobel Prize
·I have a GMT, and I've used the functions for it perhaps twice. I love the watch, that's why I bought it, plain and simple. I have other watches with different features I take advantage of more, but I still loved the watch, that's why I bought it. There used to be a time that was all anyone on here needed to say to defend a purchase. But some of the responses in here right now.....bruh. 🙄😗😁
giving an honest opinion ( when asked) is not necessarily negative or undermining, but it doesn’t have to be agreeable either .
both my wife and I have sometimes worn a watch only to realize sometime along the day that we never set it to the right time. It’s sometimes an accessory rather than a time keeper because we are sitting at our computer stations and have wall clocks in the office.
does this mean we should not wear or buy a watch?
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ebrohman
·I'm wondering how people actually use the GMT as it pertains to setting it for a default and changing it while abroad.
Do you keep the GMT hand set to your local time zone with the bezel (assuming it rotates) at 12, and then jump the hours to local (assuming jumping hours) while abroad?
Do you keep the GMT set to GMT with the bezel set to your particular GMT offset, and then just rotate the bezel while abroad?
I could keep going on, it seems like there are many, many ways to use the function.
How do you all prefer to do it?
Do you keep the GMT hand set to your local time zone with the bezel (assuming it rotates) at 12, and then jump the hours to local (assuming jumping hours) while abroad?
Do you keep the GMT set to GMT with the bezel set to your particular GMT offset, and then just rotate the bezel while abroad?
I could keep going on, it seems like there are many, many ways to use the function.
How do you all prefer to do it?
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cvalue13
·I could keep going on, it seems like there are many, many ways to use the function.
There are many ways, but only one correct way.
Kidding aside, it in part depends on the particular version of dual-time/GMT complication. There are so-called “true GMTs”, or “desk/office GMTs”, dual-movement, dual-times, world-times, etc.
Given all that variation and so speaking in broad generalities, when used for travel an independent GMT indicator (that, in various forms, moves around the dial once in a 24hr period - rather than every 12) is set to “home” time (though historically purported to have been intended to be set to actual GMT time - because pilots); meanwhile, the “normal” 12hr hour hand on the dial is set to “local” (where the traveler is located), and can jump while hacking home time.
that said, different movements and complications can permit of many uses. I have a true GMT used regularly that I set up unlike the above (using the home time to display a different, distant zone) - effectively using a true GMT like a “desk/office GMT”
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gostang9
·I'm wondering how people actually use the GMT as it pertains to setting it for a default and changing it while abroad.
Do you keep the GMT hand set to your local time zone with the bezel (assuming it rotates) at 12, and then jump the hours to local (assuming jumping hours) while abroad?
Do you keep the GMT set to GMT with the bezel set to your particular GMT offset, and then just rotate the bezel while abroad?
I could keep going on, it seems like there are many, many ways to use the function.
How do you all prefer to do it?
I travel between multiple time zones, and I often use my Explorer II with time set to local time where I am and I leave the GMT to my home time zone.
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I like to set my watch during the flight, which means thinking carefully one time to set it right, and then I can quickly glance to check local time without giving it much thought.
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Wetworks
·I do t see a single response recommending or advising not to buy a GMT, in fact most of us are saying what you say here. Notable most responders have a GMT or two.
giving an honest opinion ( when asked) is not necessarily negative or undermining, but it doesn’t have to be agreeable either .
both my wife and I have sometimes worn a watch only to realize sometime along the day that we never set it to the right time. It’s sometimes an accessory rather than a time keeper because we are sitting at our computer stations and have wall clocks in the office.
does this mean we should not wear or buy a watch?
If you don't see it, don't worry about it. Also in that vein, if the post doesn't apply, just move on by. Also also, it's all good in the hood.
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Waltesefalcon
·I use the GMT function on my Astronaut when traveling. I don't always do a good job of keeping track of what time zone I am in so I can do a quick check set my watch and I am good to go, also when I call home I can quickly check and make sure I am not calling too late.
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Walrus
·Just picked one up from a member here. I like the idea of it. I’ll use it when my wife is on overseas business trips as a couple times I’ve called her at crazy hours. I know I can just ask Siri but brings me back into tech which is why I wear watches, to get away from that.
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MTROIS
·I'm wondering how people actually use the GMT as it pertains to setting it for a default and changing it while abroad.
Do you keep the GMT hand set to your local time zone with the bezel (assuming it rotates) at 12, and then jump the hours to local (assuming jumping hours) while abroad?
Do you keep the GMT set to GMT with the bezel set to your particular GMT offset, and then just rotate the bezel while abroad?
I could keep going on, it seems like there are many, many ways to use the function.
How do you all prefer to do it?
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RARJ
·I love the GMT on the Deep Black. At first I thought "why would I ever need a GMT" but then when I asked "why would I ever need water-proofing to 600M" I made peace.
I like it more of a design feature than anything but I try to keep that GMT hand set to the timezone of one of my manufacturers so that I always know whether it's an appropriate time to call/text/whatsapp.
I like it more of a design feature than anything but I try to keep that GMT hand set to the timezone of one of my manufacturers so that I always know whether it's an appropriate time to call/text/whatsapp.
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studeb
·Guys
This is my first post and I’m going to throw this out here. I’m taking a new position and it requires travel into different time zones. So I thought it was a good excuse for another watch. But in talking to a few travelers they told me they never use their GMT function.
So what’s your experience? Do you use Gmt or not?
Joe
Yes i use the GMT. Watch is set to local time. GMT hand to UTC, and bezel set to Melbourne. I get local time, EU time and Asia time only using little math.
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Pvt-Public
·Quick question. I keep my hour hand on my time zone, the “GMT” hand on Paris time and rotate the bezel to so Tokyo aligns with the “GMT” hand. Since nothing reads “ GMT” is it really a “GMT” watch? 🍿🤦
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.Guys
This is my first post and I’m going to throw this out here. I’m taking a new position and it requires travel into different time zones. So I thought it was a good excuse for another watch. But in talking to a few travelers they told me they never use their GMT function.
So what’s your experience? Do you use Gmt or not?
Joe
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funkright
·Just picked this up today. Had one in the past, got it at such an amazing price I couldn't ignore it!
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whiskeredbat
·I own watches with GMT, moon phase and chronograph functions. Do I use any of them for practical reasons? No actually.
As Archer put in succinctly,' I can add and subtract' so no requirement for a GMT. Mostly travel for business so never out in the boonies. Any store or mall clock will do me and my Iphone does a great job GMT wise.
Moon Phase - I can always look up at the night sky. Oh, it's a full moon and the werewolves are out.
Chronograph - hypnotise myself with it when some boring gasbag is shooting his mouth off at meetings.
I'd be rather well off if I didn't indulge in fancy timepieces. But there you have it😀.
Stay well brothers and sisters.
As Archer put in succinctly,' I can add and subtract' so no requirement for a GMT. Mostly travel for business so never out in the boonies. Any store or mall clock will do me and my Iphone does a great job GMT wise.
Moon Phase - I can always look up at the night sky. Oh, it's a full moon and the werewolves are out.
Chronograph - hypnotise myself with it when some boring gasbag is shooting his mouth off at meetings.
I'd be rather well off if I didn't indulge in fancy timepieces. But there you have it😀.
Stay well brothers and sisters.
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Fabrice M
·I do, l have keep track of different time zone for my job.
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