I really like the amount and application of lume on this dial. Proportions sound great. Kudos to Farer for original designs, transparency on movements and a 5 years warranty.
I agree that legibility is an issue with some analogue watches for some complications (this one for example). Maybe it's just because I'm old enough to have learned to tell time on analogue clocks before digital but I still find my brain processes the time more quickly with a quick glance at a good clear analogue dial. So Gshocks and Garmins are not my ultimate tool watches. If the job is telling time.
Another really good well written video. You’re right, it’s not always easy to read and I tried reading it in the dark with the lume and it’s a problem but it does what I want it to do and is just a bit more unusual from a boring old GMT. The daylight savings issue? At least that’ll be resolved by 3/31.
For example. At 9:21 in the video It's 10pm local time on the normal dial. And the inner dial lines up 22 with Los Angeles on the outer dial. It also lines up 6 with London (which is usually true except right now where our daylight savings time has changed and theirs hasn't).
Lol it’s almost exactly like a GMT showing all time zones not just one GMT hand. The hour hand typically jumps on world timers. Let’s say you’re in NY and it’s 12 noon, but your watch has NY at 10am. Jump your hour hand backwards to 10AM, then hack the minutes forward 2 hours. The Worldtimer is “pegged” to the minute hand. Now you can see what time it is in every time zone.
This Farer hits all the design ques very well, but I am still partial to the Fredrique Constant Worldtimer. However, every time I think about buying a Worldtimer, I say "hey, you have a Casio AW-1200 Worldtimer which does this so much better". And I buy something completely different or save my money.
Once again great video. As you mentioned I think this is one of the better world time executions. I typically only like world times when there is a fancy globe drawn on it like the Aqua Terra, so this one fits the bill.
It's worth mentioning I guess that this is a modified *caller* GMT movement, meaning the 24-hour ring jumps in hour increments and not the local hour hand. Whether or not that still counts as being a "true" worldtimer is in the eye of the beholder, but I would've been beyond shocked if this had a jumping local hour hand at this price point
Whilst I did eventually sell my Markham (damn my failing eyes) these Farers remain to this day, some of the best of their kind. I do love that new green one too. Damnit. Also, bloody hell you’re getting funnier all the time. Great stuff mate.
i just found this video and realized they massively improved the visibility on the Markham with the Markham II. the minute hand, hour hand, and minute track are all now blued and much more visible compared to the first version. Not to mention the hand shapes and date window have all been rounded to give it a more modern feel
agreed that the fact that all these watchers are wrong from March to November is irritating. I wish there was a watch face complication that accounted for daylight savings time. Maybe if the US cities were on another separate ring that turned independent of the international cities.
I rarely travel abroad or need to know the time anywhere outside of my country. Also I have woeful eyesight, and yet, gosh,I want one of these. I feel Evan has a great passive sales pitch!
Noooooo, your videos are too good, Big Deal Evan! The model you reviewed is now sold out (as I was about to purchase it). Can you please ask Farer to make more? Again @YoureTerrific
Am I right to understand that the map is locked to the 24 hour wheel? So 1 o'clock always aligns with the same locations on the map? I love this watch for the most part but think that would irrationally annoy me. Feels like the map should move with the bezel.
On the contrary, I would expect a fancy bracelet for $170! Also, and I may just be really stupid, but even after hearing your explanation, I still don’t understand how to read this watch lol!
For me with family in a half hour time zone non of the GMT's work and very few Worldtimer's. Fortunately Glashutte Original have a solution the Senator Cosmopolite buuuuut it's 20k.
For me, I would never need to see more than 2 time zones on my wrist. I prefer legibility. If I need more time zones I’ll use my phone (smart pocket watch).
Nice watch. But the daylight savings issue is a fatal flaw of worldtimers for me. I’ll stick with my phone for the world timer function and save many many dollars (that I will spend on other watches).
Don't you think the date window messed up the dial? It's just extra complexity for a world time watch, which is already pretty busy. I reckon leaving it out would've made the watch look cleaner and simpler.
I am deeply offended that you would compare my people's passion for extra vowels to the Brits'. They are such small players compared to the French. We are in totally different leagues.
This watch is absolutely useless because I don’t leave my house because humans are stupid and boring and I hate every single one of them and despise being around them but I’m going to buy it anyway.
