New addition to World Time Watch!

A preview and solicitation of opinions on the new style of World Time was sent out earlier, and it received attention and comments from many watch enthusiasts.

Just recently, I have some new ideas, and I will post a new style concept rendering

Let's see the effect

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Great original design. Love it. Let's hope it makes production 👍🏻👍🏻

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Looks great and very functional! My suggestion woule be to match the color of the seconds hand with the worldtimer text on the dial or make the text white.

Also I‘d love to see the dial as near to the crystal as possible. On some of your other watches it sits a bit low and makes it look weird because there is just so much bare metal where a chapter ring would usually be and you feel like looking into a deep hole.

I hope this design evolves and makes it to production in many different variations! I would buy one for sure ;)

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I love the lume. Love the visual ease of being able to read the 24-hour both day and night. The world city time zone ring is handy. The date window showing 8 between the 11 and 13 seem odd until one realizes it’s a date window. I wonder if an inversion of the date (black on white) would help that. Of course, on the 12th day of every months it will be perfect.

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The dial is very close to the Glycine Airman No. 1:

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That’s a world timer I’d consider buying! However, please make the GMT hand more different. Right now it is hard to tell the GMT and the minute hands apart from each other at a glance.

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Make it a tad smaller so the date sits flush with the 24h ring.

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This design is really good. My suggestion would be to do something with worldtimer and seconds hand colour. The red text dissapears on grey surface and the blue hand is a bit off from rest of design. Date could be tweaked a bit but have no good idea how, maybe removing it completely ( lost functionality in that case ) or adding frame around that would visualy seperate it from 24h numbers

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I agree with @TekindusT , GMT hand needs to be different from the main hands. In my opinion it should be subtle, disappear in the background until you need it. I liked the 24 hr when it was 2 tone instead of one

I'm glad to see Cairo per our reddit conversation 😉

Keep up the good work 💪

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I would move the date to under the 12 like a datograph, as well as remove the auto and depth rating info and replace with the logo. Maybe match the logo to the inner ring color.

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TekindusT

That’s a world timer I’d consider buying! However, please make the GMT hand more different. Right now it is hard to tell the GMT and the minute hands apart from each other at a glance.

I agree and understand some limitation because of the desire to lume the GMT hand. I vote for a red hand with a lumed arrowhead or slim pointer (like the GMT hand on the SN0112/ also a cool original design (well as original as you can in this space).

Also, please make it at least 40 or 41mm in size (or have a bigger version) for the fatter wristed among us. I would have already bought a SN0112 if it wasn't 38mm. I prefer 42mm but can live with 40.

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If San Martin came out with this, I would def buy it!

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I tend to hate the classique "arrow" gmt hand in most of the gmt so this original and simple gmt hand is great in my opinion 👍

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Paris instead of Geneva, please. (Unless San Martin is moving to Switzerland.)

Added to clarify: Paris is the nominal city for Central European Time. It is traditional for watchmakers to substitute their own city for their own time zone, which is why many Swiss watches use Geneva. But note Omega uses Bienne. And Junghans and Nomos use Berlin. Even Swiss brands with long home town names (e.g. Longines) use Paris. If San Martin were to use Geneva it would be as if they were trying to deceive folks by falsely claiming Swiss provenance. At best it would be pretentious.

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Rocketfan

I agree and understand some limitation because of the desire to lume the GMT hand. I vote for a red hand with a lumed arrowhead or slim pointer (like the GMT hand on the SN0112/ also a cool original design (well as original as you can in this space).

Also, please make it at least 40 or 41mm in size (or have a bigger version) for the fatter wristed among us. I would have already bought a SN0112 if it wasn't 38mm. I prefer 42mm but can live with 40.

Well, multiple versions might satisfy more folks, but I dunno if the market is big enough to support more than one size. In my case, 38mm is the max; anything larger and I'll pass. But then again, I've already got my 37mm Rado Over-Pole Worldtimer.

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Inkitatus

Great original design. Love it. Let's hope it makes production 👍🏻👍🏻

Thank you, your encouragement makes me very motivated

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UnsignedCrown

Make it a tad smaller so the date sits flush with the 24h ring.

In fact, I hope that people will know more clearly that this is a calendar window.

Like one of the comments above said whether to replace the calendar with a white background

But I wish the ring looked more complete

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Rocketfan

I agree and understand some limitation because of the desire to lume the GMT hand. I vote for a red hand with a lumed arrowhead or slim pointer (like the GMT hand on the SN0112/ also a cool original design (well as original as you can in this space).

Also, please make it at least 40 or 41mm in size (or have a bigger version) for the fatter wristed among us. I would have already bought a SN0112 if it wasn't 38mm. I prefer 42mm but can live with 40.

For example, a diameter of 39.5mm, is it acceptable?😢

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sathomas

Paris instead of Geneva, please. (Unless San Martin is moving to Switzerland.)

Added to clarify: Paris is the nominal city for Central European Time. It is traditional for watchmakers to substitute their own city for their own time zone, which is why many Swiss watches use Geneva. But note Omega uses Bienne. And Junghans and Nomos use Berlin. Even Swiss brands with long home town names (e.g. Longines) use Paris. If San Martin were to use Geneva it would be as if they were trying to deceive folks by falsely claiming Swiss provenance. At best it would be pretentious.

This comment helped me a lot, thank you for the popular science information

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Vergil

This comment helped me a lot, thank you for the popular science information

It would be perfectly within accepted practices for San Martin to use Dongguan instead of Beijing, by the way. It might be something that only watch nerds would understand, but — as a watch nerd myself — I kind of like the quirkiness of it. After all, how many non-watch nerds have even heard of Bienne, much less know that it's Omega's headquarters. Yet Omega puts it on the Aqua Terra Worldtimer dial.

I do like the watch design by the way. I have a soft spot for world time complications (I own several) and this one is appealing. A 39.5mm case diameter might make it too large for my 15cm wrists, but depending on the other dimensions (e.g. lug-to-lug), I could be tempted.

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sathomas

It would be perfectly within accepted practices for San Martin to use Dongguan instead of Beijing, by the way. It might be something that only watch nerds would understand, but — as a watch nerd myself — I kind of like the quirkiness of it. After all, how many non-watch nerds have even heard of Bienne, much less know that it's Omega's headquarters. Yet Omega puts it on the Aqua Terra Worldtimer dial.

I do like the watch design by the way. I have a soft spot for world time complications (I own several) and this one is appealing. A 39.5mm case diameter might make it too large for my 15cm wrists, but depending on the other dimensions (e.g. lug-to-lug), I could be tempted.

Lug to lug is about 46.5mm,

Compared with Dongguan, I prefer to use Beijing, because people living here are used to saying Beijing time instead of Dongguan time. Before reading your previous comments, we didn’t think so much. It is not intentional to let others think that this watch has anything to do with Switzerland, but I just hope that the city name on the bezel is familiar to people.

But after reading your comment, I think it makes sense, maybe it will be more rigorous