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World Timers: Decorative or Functional?
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Inpw
路There are better tools for tracking several timezones at once nowadays. However, I think world timers are great for giving you a general idea at a cursory glance. And wanderlust 馃榾
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HonkiKonki
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May I ask when you got this Orient World Timer? I have a similar one with black dial.
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Flintlock
路I noticed, in the earlier editions, Central Time is labeled as "Mexico" rather than a city. That seems kind of odd as Mexico has more than one time zone.
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tzachi
路I prefer GMT watches, easier to read, easy to adjust.
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Uscjake87
路I got three of these 70s accutron world timers. I think the cool factor outweighs the practicality.
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worldtimerman
路I know this is really delayed, but this is the Omega forums and the OP was talking about the Omega Seamaster Worldtimer and for this watch the font color of the city name indicates which cities use daylight savings time, and which don't. So you just add an hour if the city name indicates daylight savings in the summer. You can tell the daylight savings color by looking at most american cities like Chicago, LA and NYC that all follow daylight savings, but not Honolulu, and the font colors vary based on the watch face, but note that London is red to remind you that it is also GMT.
Doesn't apply to the tissots and most of the other pictures posted in this thread, but I thought I would mention it, because it's relevant and no one else posted it and I got here through google.
Doesn't apply to the tissots and most of the other pictures posted in this thread, but I thought I would mention it, because it's relevant and no one else posted it and I got here through google.
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Butik
路I have just sold my OMEGA World Timer, because I could not read the time in the world (small lettering and recently some problems with my close vision). I bought the watch for decoration (it's undoubtedly beautiful), but also for its function. Here short video:
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Pascal S
路Once upon a time, Breitling's answer to the issue of keeping time with travelling was to merge 4 watches. Meet the 1980's Breitling World.
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Watch my Whisky
路Get an Apple Watch.
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Helvetia History
路Hi I recently found the patent below for a 'Universal Timepiece'. It varies from the standard world timer by not having an hour hand. I've posted a new thread on it if anyone is interested.
https://omegaforums.net/threads/universal-timepiece.86955/
Here is an article from the same time as this patent, from the Horological Journal of June 1950, with an article about a universal time pocket watch from Helvetia. Wish I could find something like that!
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vacheroyale
路probably the GMT is much more practical. world timer is fine too when we travel and changing three or four time zones of different cities in world within a week 馃榾
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vacheroyale
路world timer definitely is more decorative in most cases!! the NOMOS Z眉rich World Time is very appealing!!!!!!!!!!! different than all the others
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