Office or True or Traveler's GMT?

If you travel a lot, are into history and heritage, or are a completionist. then true GMT. If you do business or have friends/family in another time zone, then caller.

Or just get what you like the look of.

My lifestyle is such that the benefits of GMT watches don't mean a lot to me.

An office GMT is great for knowing the time in another single time zone, but I have clients spread across multiple time zones, so I find it easier to keep track of that using the "time.is" web site. It allows me to see the time in several locations at once, identified by city name and adjusted for any difference in daylight saving time. If I had a need to track the time in only 1 other location, I can see an office GMT being very beneficial.

I don't travel very much lately, but I do appreciate the ability of a traveler's GMT to easily change the hour when I arrive at my destination. My favorite complication is the chronograph, and I have a couple of Omega chronographs that have that same functionality, so I would prefer them over a GMT watch when I do travel. If I travelled more frequently, I can see the appeal of having a home time reference, and would then opt for my GMT Master II.

IMHO, the reason I buy GMTs is mostly for when I travel, so I prefer a traveler’s GMT. But I have 2 of each type in my collection, so, read into that what you will.

In my opinion, it’s like buying a diver with high WR and wearing it as an office watch. Is a True GMT really needed if 99% of the time you’re wearing it in your office. Save the money and buy a plane ticket somewhere and really travel 👍

@SpecKTator My Mido is both a diver and a true GMT. Now I am saving my money to so I can wear it on while traveling and on the other wrist, a worldtimer!

The world is your oyster

This is my true GMT+_. One pusher advances an hour and the other pusher sets it back one hour. The home hour is displayed in the window at 11:00 and the date is at 3:00. Simplicity!

@Velomax That looks like a San Marco and never seen one with a yellow dial - very nice and different. Matchy matcy leather strap.

I have all 3 of them, office GMT can be used as 24hr while at home.

But then you’ve created a Catch-22, because if you take the money to go traveling, then you DO need a traveler’s GMT, obviously! 😜

Yes, first world problems 🤣

I'm building 3 gmt's at the moment. One nh34 and two Ronda 505-24 quartz. The Ronda movements use smaller hands and I gotta wait on those. The quartz will cost around $50.00 CDN to make. The Mech will cost me around $100.00

I have Traveller and Caller GMTs, and love both types. My favourite is the Islander ISL-139 Caller as it is my only GMT that has a 24-hour scale on the chapter ring as well as a bi-directional bezel. This allows me to track three timezones at a glance.... a highly recommernded feature, yet few GMTs offer this. It is also 200m water resistant if I should wish to go for a dip!

I tend to avoid trouble.

And this is the way to do it.

I own both. I also don’t travel anywhere near the amount I use too. Give me the travelers Gmt for ease of use.

Office GMT with rotating bezel. I find this the best combination for myself.

It depend if I have to sacrifice the quick date setting for the sake of having a "true" GMT.

I collect travel watches and I love wearing them because just the notion of them makes me think of friends around the world or when I've travelled myself. I've got about ten travel watches of all sorts of configurations, traveller/tracker, independent and slaved. I rarely set the other time zone anyway so in the end how it does its thing is kind of irrelevent. Some of them below.

I prefer Traveler Jump Hr GMT myself, use mostly for traveling

Using the jump hour to set the date is NOT a big deal, and is an overblown concern IMHO. The fact that you can go forwards and backwards in time means that you never have to go further than 16 days.

You are correct. It is a San Marco and the yellow isn't very common. I chased this watch for quite a while just for the impact the yellow makes.

@Velomax Yellow dials are normally associated with diver watches. Doxa decided to add their dimension of having Orange color dials to signify that it is the last color one will see before it gets dark under the sea where you will not see any color at all on the face of the watch. The Doxa Divingstar model with the yellow dial is named as a result of being notoriously most associated with diving. The San Marco of yours is not a diving watch so the yellow color could have another purpose of frightening away the mosquitoes. There is a thought!

I bloody love a GMT. I have both "office" and "traveller" and in all honesty, there's so little between them. It's not like either is difficult to set, and if losing a few seconds from hacking is a problem, you should probably just check the time on your phone.

If you want more than one time zone, either version will do that for you, so buy whatever one catches the eye!

@timepiece.pete Bloody good then! Check out this interesting little bugger

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I bloody love a GMT. I have both "office" and "traveller" and in all honesty, there's so little between them. It's not like either is difficult to set, and if losing a few seconds from hacking is a problem, you should probably just check the time on your phone.

If you want more than one time zone, either version will do that for you, so buy whatever one catches the eye!

@timepiece.pete Bloody good then! Check out this interesting little bugger

Mido Ocean Star Decompression Worldtimer (on the bezel) that is a True GMT - ooah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sml24gW0EY

Yeah, have seen that. I just don't think I want the dial filled with a functionality I won't use. But I do like the design.

@timepiece.pete It is too busy for me and not really a worldtimer in the traditional sense.

I definitely don't have a daily need for tracking multiple timezones, but I travel frequently enough to enjoy having a watch for traveling. In those instances, I find the jumping hour functionality of a "true" GMT is most convenient and helpful.

I own both. The purpose of a true GMT is to keep track of GMT/UTC regardless of which time zone you are in. It's not primarily to keep track of two time zones. That's why pilots used/use them. If you want to keep track of two time zones a traveller's GMT makes more sense.