This still is an innovative design which Rolex created to ensure a water-tight and dust proof watch. One particular unique design feature is more than 90 years old, know as the Rolex Oyster case. That’s why I prefer caller GMTs as they are easier to use.Here at Everest Horology we love Rolex watches and their creative Rolex design features. If I had a true GMT, I would have to change the GMT hand first and then adjust the local hour hand when switching the target time zone, and perhaps the date as well by moving the local hour hand clockwise to change it (instead of pulling the crown to the second position which is not possible with a true GMT.) As you can imagine, that would be a process that isn’t practical, at least not for my intended use. I switch back and forth between a sister-in-law who lives in a different part of Europe, or my best friend lives on the East Coast of the United States, or a client who is located in Singapore and who I’m working on an important project with. For my intended use, a caller GMT is easier to set up because I can adjust the GMT hand quite easily to change which time zone I want to track. So, as someone who does travel but who mostly needs a GMT to keep track of time in different time zones where my family or a client lives, I need a caller and not a true GMT. And even if you travel a lot, you don’t actually need to change the local time that often. I would argue that 99.99% of the human population doesn’t need a true GMT movement, but a caller GMT instead since most of us don’t travel that much. However, a true GMT really only makes sense for pilots. It’s a process, I imagine, that takes one minute at most. Source: I can easily imagine being a pilot flying out from Los Angeles and landing in Paris the next day and only having to adjust the local hand one direction or another when landing, whilst always knowing the GMT time so that I don’t miss my next flight. They set the GMT hand to indicate GMT time (the reference time used by all pilots) and adjust the local hour hand when arriving at their new destination. As a reminder, the GMT Master 2 was designed for airline pilots that jump from one time zone to another and back and forth all the time. The point of a true GMT movement *a la* GMT Master 2 is that adjusting the local hour hand only takes a few seconds once the GMT hand has been set. I travel a lot (or used to before COVID-19) but not enough to need a true GMT movement. In this article, I will discuss the reasons why I personally prefer a caller GMT over a true GMT. But how much does a GMT Master 2 cost? Exactly my point. Rolex created the first true GMT (I will no longer use the quotation marks starting…now) when it launched the GMT Master 2. With a few exceptions, GMTs that cost around that much have a “caller” GMT caliber and not a “true” GMT one, meaning that in the former case, it is the GMT hand that jumps and not the local hour hand. By affordable I mean watches that don’t cost several thousands of dollars to acquire, but something like around $2,000 and well below. The 2022 edition of the Wind Up Watch Fair in New York City highlighted a few trends-handmade dials, smaller but more robust cases-but more importantly, affordable GMTs. More than it is the year of a new dial color.
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