The 43mm steel case is built in Bremont’s now familiar three-part “Trip-Tick” construction and uses a screw-down crown with a relief propeller motif to help ensure its water resistance. The tricompax dial includes a date display window inspired by the dashboard of a C17 plane and a distinctly aviation-inspired 24-city ring, which identifies the world’s time zones by the cities associated with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) airfield identifiers and rotates in both directions to align with the central GMT hand. Price: $6,395, Reference: ALT1-WT, Case Size: 43mm, Case Height: 16mm, Lug width: 22mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 100 meters, Movement: Automatic BE 54AEīritish pilot-watch specialist Bremont offers two complications in its ALT1-WT model, a world-time indicator, operated by a bidirectional crown at 8 o’clock, and a chronograph with pushers at 2 o’clock and 5 o’clock. The self-winding movement inside the 43.9mm gold case, Breguet’s in-house Caliber 77F1, accomplishes this feat through a complex system of cams, hammers and an integrated differential to calculate both the time and date in a chosen second time zone. Most importantly, the watch is equipped with the patented Hora Mundi “mechanical memory” function that allows the wearer to switch between two selected time zones instantly via the pusher and crown. The world cities representing each time zone time zones rotate on a disk at 6 o’clock inside a semicircular window, with the city of the local time indicated by the emblematic anchor symbol of the Marine collection. A tiny sun, in rose gold, and moon, in rhodium-plated gray, indicate day and night in a window at 4 o’clock. The world-map dial of the Marine Hora Mundi 5557 achieves its stunning visual depth with the use of superimposed plates, as traditionally guillochéd ocean waves on a gold base plate wash up against the filigree, turquoise-edged continents depicted on a sapphire crystal pane positioned above it, which also hosts the longitude lines. Price: CHF 71,000, Reference: 5557BR/YS/5WV, Case Size: 43.9mm, Case Height: 13.8mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 100 meters, Movement: Automatic Breguet 77F1īreguet unveiled its travel-friendly Hora Mundi complication in its Classique collection back in 2012* and has incorporated it into its sport-luxury Marine series this year. The watch’s movement, the ETA-based Caliber RR1501C, is chronometer-certified by COSC. Like every Ball Watch, its dial boasts a high level of nighttime luminescence thanks to its generous use of micro gas-tubes filled with tritium, which unlike the more common Super-LumiNova doesn’t require any charging by an external light source for its superior, long-lasting glow these tubes, with variously colored glowing gases, are found on the hour numerals, indices, and hands. The crown, with its stylized “RR” emblem (for the “railroad” watches that Ball made famous back in the 19th century), screws down securely into a double-shouldered crown guard. Its fluted bezel, which ratchets in one direction, hosts both a dive scale and a ring of 24 world cities to check the time in various locales throughout the globe. This 42 mm-diameter stainless steel timepiece from Ball Watch does double duty as a professional-grade divers' watch and a user-friendly world timer. Price: $3,299, Reference: DG2232A-SC-BE, Case Size: 42mm Case Height: 15mm, Crystal: Sapphire, Water Resistance: 200 meters, Movement: Automatic BALL RR1501-C, based on ETA 2836-2 Ball Watch Engineer Master II Diver Worldtimer The haute horlogerie finishing on the watch’s automatic movement, Caliber A&S6022, are on display on the opposite side through a sapphire window these flourishes include NAC treatment and Geneva waves on the plates and bridges, circular brushing on the wheels, and guilloche accents on the skeletonized rotor made of 22k-rose-gold that swings in both directions to build up a xx-hour power reserve. This domed world-map dial rotates under a central gold bridge to indicate the time in all 24 of the world’s major time zones, as indicated by a central GMT hand that points to a 24-hour scale aligned with the globe’s meridian lines. The 18k rose-gold case, dominant on the wrist at 45 mm in diameter, is topped by a highly domed sapphire crystal and frames a predominantly blue-toned dial with a miniature global map of the Earth viewed from the North Pole, with rhodium-plated continents and hand-painted, blue lacquered oceans and coasts. The original Globetrotter, with its eye-catching 3D “globe on the wrist” design, debuted in 2018 in steel and received a precious-metal update in 2021. Price: CHF 41,900, Reference: 1WTAR.U01C, Case Size: 45mm Case Height: 6.55 mm, Crystal: Domed Sapphire, Water Resistance: 30 meters, Movement: Automatic A&S 6022 0% interest for up to 24 months available on select brands.
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