Travel Watch (GMT, World Time)

The new Nautilus is the first to include GMT and chronograph functions…

The timepiece showcases a new movement with silicon components…

The following is one in a series of impressions taken at BaselWorld 2013, one of the Swiss watch industry’s most important venues for introducing new models.   Anyone who has ever stood watching an old-fashioned departure board at a European airport or train station cannot help but recall the subtle sense of excitement as the […]

The redesigned Ulysse Nardin Sonata Streamline travel watch (www.ulysse-nardin.ch) does more than just tell the times of day in your destination and in the location from which you departed. In addition to a dual time display, the $39,000 timepiece provides a gentle reminder that it is time to get up from a nap or get […]

The multitude of world-time watches released over the last few months exhibit varying degrees of beauty and functionality, but one watch in particular seems to have been amply blessed with both. As the Classique Hora Mundi 5717 by Breguet ($89,700 for platinum; $75,100 for rose gold) switches instantaneously from one programmed time zone to another, […]

Owners of premium-grade classic cars will have an extra incentive to enter and win the famous Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on the southwestern shore of Lake Como. The winner will receive a one-of-a-kind Lange 1 Time Zone in addition to the honor of winning one of the most prestigious car shows of its kind. While […]

As Aston Martin reconsiders its AMR-One LMP1 sports car racing project, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s new AMVOX5 World Chronograph LMP1 ($20,900) continues waving the green flag. Engineered with an easy-to-read, highly accurate chronograph paired with a world time function, the 250-piece limited edition is the latest model to emerge from the seven-year collaboration. Legibility was a priority for […]

It has been said that you do not need a wristwatch in the modern age—unless you need to know what time it is somewhere else. Our present society’s need for continual intercontinental travel—one of the many burdens of globalization—sets us apart from previous generations in that we seldom have the luxury of focusing solely on […]

Unlike other perpetual calendar watches, Ulysse Nardin models do not present a problem for long-distance travelers. The company’s GMT perpetual calendar is the only movement of its kind that can be set backward, sparing the wearer who crosses the international date line the ordeal of tweaking a tiny pusher through all the days of the […]