Finally someone who explains that you cannot show three zones at once. So many of these videos do not explain this. I have a Batman and I’ve sat there thinking as soon as you move the bezel the GMT hand no longer points at the time you set.
Precisely. To claim it can show 3 time zones simultaneously is essentially a lie. It only shows the 3rd by completely baffling you about the 2nd. However i do recognise - and this video is very clear on this actually - that it can very easily switch between a 2nd and 3rd time zone.
This is a good explanation. I would argue this is probably one of the most misunderstood complications in the watch community. A lot of people think you need a rotating bezel to do the second time zone
This is great! Thanks! Tip: Even with a rotated bezel, you can continue to read the UTC time simply by remembering which indice means what UTC hour. Eg 3=6AM. 6=12PM. 9=6PM (or 18:00). Simply multiply the indice by 2 to get the UTC 24 hour time, even after you’ve turned the bezel.
Great video. I am a new GMT owner was and confused to hear other videos state that you can read three time zones at the same time. As correctly pointed out in this video at the end, since there is only 1 rotating bezel, at any given time the GMT/reference hand can only show one time. The 12 Mercedes hand shows the second time zone.
@@bobswatches Incorrect - the Submariner has a 120 click bezel, the GMT Master 2 has a 24 click bezel. This is because the Submariner is used to time oxygen tanks in 30 second increments whilst the GMT Master is designed to track the time zone differences in one hour increments. I hope this clears up your question Timber Tramp.
@Timber Tramp - so to answer your question regarding above - if you wanted to time minute intervals and wanted a Rolex - the Submariner or Yachtmaster would prove more useful to you. It's worth noting that older GMT masters had a 120 click bezel, but if you wanted this reference in the video you wouldn't get that function. Alternatively - you could always get a chronograph and subsequently could time the seconds and minutes too. I hope this helps you.
Still confused and I own the watch. I suspect it I actually traveled more it would evenully become clearer to me. As it is now I just don't work with the functions enough. But I'll save this for future reference thanks.
I found my GMT Master IIs to be more useful with a drop of Loctite to freeze the rotatable bezel with 2400 at the top. That saved me air filing flight plans that had a future planned time off 2 hours in the past LOL after inadvertently knocking the bezel about. I later switched to Explorer IIs with their fixed bezels. But then Rolex slowly morphed into a bunch of miserable pricks and I switched to Grand Seiko. I never in decades of around the world travel found the need to keep track of three time zones. Silliness really.
This is so unnecessarily complicated. It should let you change the hour marker by 1 hour (which it already does) but just have it leave behind a skeleton of the hour marker which represents the home time, no other overly complicated confusing crap. This is how Patek does it and it's perfect and simple.
This watch doesn't tell clearly. Third time zone. If the explanation is about turning the bezel, then there would be 24 time zones and not three. Knowing the third time zone on that watch would mean to imagine a 24h scale printed on the dial and reading the time from the GMT hand pointing at tjah 24h scale that isn't there.
I bought mine for 7750 GBP recently, get on a wait list and be patient would be my advice otherwise you will have to pay a hefty premium in the used market to skip the wait.
@@climbjay Indeed - I just bought mine at an AD. People should just buy retail, I don't understand why someone would pat over the odds for an in-production watch. Literally just get on a list and if you get it, great! If it goes out of production before you can get one then look at the used market.
I disagree, it can show 3 timezones at the same time Paused at 6:41 1st timezone w/ regular hands 10 minutes past 10 2nd timezone set w/ GMT and read on the dial 10 minutes past 7 3rd timezone set w/ rotating bezel 10 minutes past 2 Each of these timezones can be set individually
This is incorrect. At 6:41 there are only two time zones. The 10 past 7 you think it is, is actually the GMT hand on a 12h scale. So it is not 10 past 7...
@@Kenzabukuro Reading 12 hour scale as 24 hour scale is a mind calculation process. It's not something that watch is showing you. Similarly you can read any scale as shifted by any number of hours in your mind, and have all the time zones in the world simultaneously on any watch. The whole point of the GMT complication is to read it directly. And so it only can have 2 zones simultaneously. It could be 3 if it only had another 24 hours scale somewhere. But it doesn't.
This is words most boring video I’ve ever seen. I’ve totally lost interest in the first 5 minutes. This video should be titled history lesson of Rolex.
