Tag Heuer Professional Airline GMT (reference. 895.413)

Fresh from Japan comes a NOS, full set Tag Heuer Professional Airline GMT (reference. 895.413). Existed for just a couple of years before it was discountinued, this piece is briefly seen in the 1987-1988 international collection.

From the 1987-1988 catalogue:

World time watches for people whose travels take them across continents and through time zones. Your TAG-Heuer Airline is your constant partner in time and space.

You can see the time at each stopover, as well as at your places of departure and arrival: it's an instrument to give you clear and precise information.

Wherever you are, whatever the time, your Airline world time watch is at your service with the punctuality which an active lifestyle demands.

Three elements connected with the hour hand are involved in obtaining the time in another time zone:

• the 1-24 h divisions on the flange of the dial with day/night zones,

• the codes of the 0-23 time zones on the turning bezel and

• the names of major cities around the world in each time zone on the bracelet, with symbols for summer and winter time on the case.

When the code of your town on the turning bezel (previously selected on the bracelet) is set at local time on the flange of the dial (divided 1-24), the time of all the other listed towns shows opposite their own codes. The extra 24 hour hand (1 revolution in 24 hours) activated by the push-button on the left, enables the time in another time zone to be read simultaneously on the flange of the dial.

Available in two dial configurations Dark grey matt dial (Ref. 895.313) or champagne dial (Ref. 895.413) and can be briefly seen in a James Bond movie.

General Pushkin wears a TAG Heuer Airline GMT wristwatch in The Living Daylights (1987). The TAG Heuer Airline GMT watch seen in the film has a dark steel and gold case, a grey dial, gold bezel with 24 hours markings. The dial reads "AIRLINE HEUER Quartz 200 Meters GMT" and has a small date window at the 3 o'clock position.

Pushkin (played by John Rhys-Davies) uses the watch in the film to alert the security guard that he needs help when he is held at gunpoint by James Bond (Timothy Dalton).