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17 December 2017, 09:40 PM | #1 |
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Adding a Hacking feature to all movements?
I am a FREQUENT traveler.... flown on one airline, over 100,000 miles this year. I love my DJ41, (purchased earlier this year) but one thing I truly miss is the feature of moving just the hour hand when traveling through time zones. With my GMT, and then my EXII, it was so easy to simply “click” the hour hands back or forth to accomodate the time change (I might have the term wrong calling it “hacking” but you get what I mean). I know it doesn’t seem like a big deal to pull out the stem to another click and manually move the minute hand ahead or behind two or three hours, but like a lot of things in life, you don’t miss something until it’s gone. I guess this is a question for Larry and the other smarter people on TRF then me (which pretty much covers everyone ) but is it such a big deal to offer that feature on all movements? I wouldn’t think so. The 3235 is outstanding, but this is one function I would really like to see added.
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17 December 2017, 09:46 PM | #2 |
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This function will probably return in the 32×× GMT movement.
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17 December 2017, 10:29 PM | #3 |
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the world still hasn't eliminated all the half-hour timezones have we... real annoying places with half hour differences :)
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17 December 2017, 10:35 PM | #4 |
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It’s known as a quick-set hour hand. I suspect the answer to your problems is likely to be the Sky Dweller
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17 December 2017, 11:27 PM | #5 |
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Quick set is a very useful feature, and it is one of those you don't realise how much until you lose it.
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17 December 2017, 11:35 PM | #6 |
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Sounds like you need to switch your target grail to the 116719.
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17 December 2017, 11:35 PM | #7 |
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I agree it's a very handy feature, and it would be nice to see it added to every model.
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18 December 2017, 12:41 AM | #8 |
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It makes for longer date setting if you wear many watches in rotation. I say keep it as is. After all a gmt is for traveling.
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18 December 2017, 01:33 AM | #9 |
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Hacking means the second hand stops when you move the stem to time setting position. Rolex began to implement this feature around 1972.
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18 December 2017, 01:41 AM | #10 |
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If you like that feature, and dare I say this on a Rolex forum, but I recommend you checkout the Ulysses Nardin Executive.
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18 December 2017, 02:18 AM | #11 |
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The Omega Master Co-Axial has this feature which I agree is very handy. Except maybe when it’s the 16th and your watch us on the 31st.
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18 December 2017, 02:23 AM | #12 |
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This. Many Omegas, not just GMTs, have this feature now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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18 December 2017, 09:12 AM | #14 |
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Yep. In fact the non-hacking movements were better in the sense that the seconds hand would keep going and not lose time when setting the hours forward or back. Not that many people measured time to the second back then, like they do today, though
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I think "Hogan's Heroes" made synchronizing watches a household term, or at least war movies did. I've really come to appreciate the watches that I own that are non-hacking for their simple setting procedures. I'm not even tempted to set them to the precise time as I am with all the others. As for quick-set, I sure wish my new 1503 had a quick-set date. I almost wore a blister on my thumb setting the date when I first picked it up.
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