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25 May 2018, 05:29 AM | #1 |
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World time watches without DST
Guys, honest question: what is the use of a world time watch it if doesn’t have the little arrows representing daylight saving times? Or are we paying for the cloisonné handcraft alone? I’m asking because I travel quite a bit for work and I’m looking into buying either a GMT watch (other than Patek) or a world time watch.
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25 May 2018, 05:48 AM | #2 |
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The 5230s do not sell all that well. It is a classic Patek complication but not very accurate for all time zones. If you cant get the Enamel Version buy a GMT...5164A
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25 May 2018, 09:29 AM | #4 |
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The Glashutte Original Senator Cosmopolite takes care of DST IIRC. Otherwise, have to adjust the time manually using the travel time function in 5164/5990.
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Traditionally GMT is a term used by airline pilots to get a reference time of Greenwich, England as they fly across time zones. Others in the watch world use the term GMT quite loosely and it can mean different things to different people. Patek doesn't really make a pure GMT watch, only a travel time or a world time. Each watch serves a different purpose and it depends on what you would use it for. If you regularly have conference calls with people from NYC, London and Singapore, then the World Time would help you see what time it is at those locations. If you travel to these cities personally and you need to call back home regularly, then the travel time would help you see what time it is back home along with your local time. |
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Any WT that uses the 24 zones will not be titally useful as there are some countries on half and 15 min zones lime india.Vacheron includes thus but the dial is failrly complicated to read. In addition some cities change their time zones and thenr the watch is more useless e.g Moscow. DLS makes the eatch wrong 50% of the year. However if you truly use the watch for its functionality and work (like i do) then you generally notr when DLS has kicked jn and applicable to which cities. In that case i just look at the city before. The cloissone is only used on tbe 5131 and as its out if reach for mere.mortals the WT is the 5230 without cloissone. In that case people buying the 5230 do so for the complication. Is WT any less useful (as a complication) hen a chrono???
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25 May 2018, 03:43 PM | #7 |
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in general i agree. Without getting into these weird 30 minute time zone places, most normal WT have an arrow so you know the time all year long both for places that use DST and those that don't. A WT without that is practically of little use for half of every year. I doubt thats the motivation for buying one though. I would still buy one if i could get ahold of a 5131 for example.
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Greubel Forsey GMT Earth takes into account DST.
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What is the use of a watch when you have a cell phone in your hands or pocket?
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