GMT-Master II How I setup My Watch

[Why1504]

I recently acquired a BLNR. This was my first GMT style watch with a rotating bezel and that fact presented me with a couple of options. Now I could track 3 separate times. One for the GMT arrow hand, one with the bezel, and one with the standard hour and minute hands. This maybe how everyone manages this but I thought I would share.

I decided to track Zulu or UTC time as I am a amateur radio operator with the GMT hand, use the bezel for home time based on the offset between Centeral time and UTC time, and since I travel set the hour and minute hand to the local time wherever I am I the world. Currently I am in Hawaii.

Here is the example:

UTC: 23:57
CST: 17:5
HST: 13:57

[SS Oyster]

It's nice that your home time zone happens to coincide with a nice vertical split in the blue/black colors of the bezel. If you live though in say in California, the watch would look a bit weird with the blue/black split being off vertical or horizontal and the OCD in me would want to turn it back. I guess this is the case for everyone who travels a lot.

I was in the Navy for 23 years and having the GMT hand on Zulu would have been useful.

[eonflux]

That’s how I set my GMTc...
24-hour hand to UTC
Bezel turned to whatever timezone I want to see on the 24-hour bezel
12-hour hand set to local time

For Daylight Savings Time changes, don’t need to hack the watch just for the DST adjustment

[Odie-r]

I dig it. I may try something similar.