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Originally Posted by HogwldFLTR
Seems to me the original write-up in this thread is very GMTIIcentric. The original GMTs only tied the GMT hand to the 12 hour hands and they were always in sync. It makes no sense to always have the GMT hand set to Zulu time as it is then confusing to read the time at a glance. It makes more sense to move the bezel to Zulu time and use the 12 hour clock for local time. Just my simple observation owning a 16700.
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It's just an interesting perspective with a small smattering of history thrown, and yes, the OP only seems to be familiar with the much later GMT II.
It's not a GMT hand, it's a 24 hr hand. GMT is the name of the watch which was originally meant to have the bezel rotated to show GMT time at a glance on the 24 hr bezel (or any other zone). You are right; it would make little sense for a pilot to set their watch to show Zulu on the standard dial when they only use that for 10% of their time.
Read it as in interesting Thread, but not a research document..