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Kai

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I am considering the purchase of a new watch, and I would like the advice of folks on the forum.

I've always been fascinated by this multi time zone watch, but I don't really care for the brown band with the contrast white stitching on the yellow gold watch. (I have a JLC Reverso in yellow gold with a similar band, so getting the Breguet in a similar combination seems duplicative.) Should I get the white gold version with the black band, or should I special order a black band to go with the yellow gold watch?
This would be worn for business, particularly travel (when I only take one watch with me) so it needs to be versatile and go with every sort of business dress.

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Or is this multi time zone watch too fussy and busy and should I just get the much simpler (and less expensive) classic model?

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zjpj83

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Kai, Patek just displayed a new multi-time zone wine at this year's watch show that I think is really cool.
 

matadorpoeta

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kai,

i vote for the classic. the multi time zone watches look gimmicky. i'd think differently if you could press a button and have the hands move to a different position, with the name of the corresponding city in a little window on the face. but just having the names of a bunch of cities on their is too much.
 

LabelKing

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I like the Audemars World Time from the '40s. Audemars was very well-known for this sort of complication:
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And then there is the iconic Louis Cottier Patek World Time:
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As for the Breguets, I'm not particularly keen on Breguet's various complication wristwatches as the styling strikes me as slightly unsophisticated. However, their recent offerings are in better taste; the Tradition looks too much like a misguided attempt to wrestle a pocket watch in a large wristwatch case.
 

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I think simple is better. I don't like watches with a bunch of stuff.

I've never been a fan of the dual or multi. time-zone thing. It's just a quick calculation in the head that's needed.
 

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Originally Posted by Horace
I think simple is better. I don't like watches with a bunch of stuff.

I've never been a fan of the dual or multi. time-zone thing. It's just a quick calculation in the head that's needed.

Unless you need to track 4 time zones, one of which is offset by 15 minutes and another by 30. Small niche, but still exists.

Tom
 

globetrotter

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Originally Posted by tiger02
Unless you need to track 4 time zones, one of which is offset by 15 minutes and another by 30. Small niche, but still exists.

Tom



exactly. which is why I am saving my pennies for the glycine.
 

tiger02

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Originally Posted by globetrotter
exactly. which is why I am saving my pennies for the glycine.
I think I like this version best. How much?
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BTW, also really like the styling of the very first Breguet pictured.
 

globetrotter

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Originally Posted by tiger02
I think I like this version best. How much?
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BTW, also really like the styling of the very first Breguet pictured.

under two K, considering it has 3 separate quality automatic mechanism, not a bad price, just not something I can afford right now.

The look of the Brequest is cool, but I don't like having all the city names on, for my own sake - I would set the time zones for cities that are relevant to me.
 

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Originally Posted by tiger02
Unless you need to track 4 time zones, one of which is offset by 15 minutes and another by 30. Small niche, but still exists.

Tom


Where are such places?
 

globetrotter

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Originally Posted by Horace
Where are such places?

india, nepal, sri lanka, maldives, afganastan, iran, newfoundland, mymar and, I believe, central australia all come to mind - all are off the round hour used by most of the world. there may also be a handfull of african countries that do it.
 

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Originally Posted by globetrotter
india, nepal, sri lanka, maldives, afganastan, iran, newfoundland, mymar and, I believe, central australia all come to mind - all are off the round hour used by most of the world. there may also be a handfull of african countries that do it.


Interesting. Thanks. You certainly live up to your moniker.
 

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