TUTORIAL - How to set a GMT watch 

Finally someone explains it properly - thank you good sir

For a pilot, the GMT hand is set on UTC always. Home time is set on the main hands and the destination time on the outer bezel (with the UTC time zone difference set at 12 o'clock on the outer bezel). After arrival, local time can then be set on the main hour hand until the next departure, unless home time is preferred .

Thank you for presenting a simple explanation on how to use a GMT or Universal watch. It was the first time I actually understood how to set up a GMT watch for 3 time zones.

Thank you for a comprehensible explanation of how the watch works AND how to set 3 zones!

Finally someone able to explain it simply and properly!

Thank you!! I watched 4 other videos and none made sense. Your's clicked and I understand it now.

This has been the best, most concise explanation that finally cleared it up for me! Thank you!!!

Very well done! After watching others try to explain how to do it,.....you nailed it! Thank you.

Thanks for the explanation! The use of the bezel always tripped me up. More of these instructional videos please. thanks!

very cool and super simple. I always wondered how that worked. Makes sense that the home time hand advances on a 24 hour cycle.

Nice illustration and explanation on showing the usage of bezel and GMT time zone setting.

such a clear easy explaination.

thank you for using real time reference.

What if the difference of the second time zone is 4:30 hours? Thanks

Easy and straightforward. Thanks!

This is so well done. Thanks and subscribed!

Thank you! Excellent explanation!

Super helpful video thank you

Just purchased this watch. Easy to setup. Thank you for this

Very clear explanation. Thanks.

Well explained. Thanks

Well explained i love your tutorial ❤️

Thanks, for that I'm subscribing to learn new things.

Great tutorial 👏

In a timezone that is offset 30 mins to other timezones (eg Adelaide, Tehran or Indian standard times) how do we adjust the GMT hand in 30 min increments?

Great video. Thank you for explaining!

can you show me how to track 1/2 time-zones as i travel often from Europe to India and am unable to set up the 1/2 time zone.. for example its 13.00 CET in Europe and India is 16.30 CET

Thank you very much from Morocco

Isn’t it better to set the GMT hand to the UTC and then turn the Bazel to the +/- hour difference to the new location?

So in theory we could use 24 hour or for the second one we could just use the bezel and have a 12 hour reading.?

How to set for GMT +5.5,-2, +1.5 simultaneously?

Thanks!

thank you

I always thought the local time was set with the main hands and second time using the GMT hand.

really useful

ohhhh i get it nowwwwwwww

What happens if the difference between time zones involves half an hour?

Why do you use true GMT watch as a dual time +1 watch ? . just set the GMT hand indicate the UTC:+0 (GMT time) when bezel was not rotated and use bezel rotating functions. For Tokyo rotate the bezel so that the number on the bezel 9(Tokyo is UTC:+9) be at the position of 12 O'clock position and read the hour indicated by the GMT hand.

Can we set different minutes for different time zones ?

I disagree with your assigning the GMT hand to "home" time. The whole reason they call it a GMT is that you should be setting the GMT hand to GMT time, not home time. That way each time zone's "GMT Shift" information is set with the setting of the Bezel shift starting from the from the 12 o'clock am position which is midnight GMT time. You set the normal hands as your local time in the local time zone you are in, then you set the bezel to correspond to the time zone used in your destination city, which more often than not is going to be the time zone where you live when you are not out traveling. Done this way, bi-colored GMT watch Bezels give you a qualitative assignment of daytime or night time at your destination. If you do it your way, then when you are back home at your house, both the local time and the GMT hand are going to be indicating the same time, which now redundant, rendering the GMT hand useless.

The Rolex GMT 2 cannot read 3 time zones contrary to beliefs for a simple reason it does not have inner 24 hour scale....Seiko does so three time zone is possible.

India.... 3 and a HALF hours ahead of me... tricky to do

Casio seems more userfriendly

Identical to the Seiko SSK that cost $500

What he fails to explain is unfortunately we cannot set another time zone which is +/- 30 minutes as both the inner and outher bezel displays hours not minutes... So we gotta add or subtract that mentally...

They sell Seikos at Kohl’s. Lol , grand or not I wouldn’t pay that price for a seiko