[86 points] Breitling / Transocean Chronograph Unitime

BREITLING TRANSOCEAN CHRONOGRAPH UNITIME

If you're traveling the world, having a worldtimer will make your trip even more exciting. Breitling's manufacture chronograph, which packs the latest technology into a vintage design, gives you a glimpse of the passage of time around the globe.

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・Thoughtful design
- Easy setting of the world time mechanism
・Excellent accuracy

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・Visibility is poor
・The arm rests a little poorly

To the traveller who transcends time

farWhen traveling to a distant foreign country, the question of how to display your watch arises. If you're flying from your familiar Germany to New York, should you set your watch to the local time there? However, if you plan to call Germany while you're there, you'll need to know the original time. In such cases, it's helpful to be able to see the time in two time zones at once. Watches with a 24-hour hand in addition to the main hour and minute hands are also useful for such situations. However, when traveling from one destination to another, such as when someone living in Germany calls Los Angeles from London, simple time difference calculations become insufficient. This is where a world timer comes in handy. A world timer features a ring with the names of 24 cities, allowing you to distinguish all 24 time zones, divided into one-hour increments. By setting one city name on the ring as the main time zone and setting the current time, you can easily see the time in the second and third time zones.

While the term "world timer" is broadly used, there are several different types currently on the market. The most common type is one in which the ring with the city names is fixed and does not rotate, requiring ingenuity to read. Even among the types with a rotating ring, there are some that leave the center hour and minute hands in place but move the main time city name to the 12 o'clock position, using that as a starting point to calculate the time in other areas. These types are not ideal for traveling to more distant places with time differences, or for making international phone calls as mentioned above.

Compared to these types, the world timer mechanism developed and patented by Breitling is clearly easier to use. This is because, when you change the city name at 12 o'clock, the central hour and minute hands also move to display the current time for that city. To turn the city name ring, pull the crown out one notch. This causes the hour hand to quickly step one hour to indicate the time in the desired location. Incidentally, the ring can be set by turning the crown clockwise or counterclockwise, so when moving between different date zones, the date display also moves forward or backward. This is particularly convenient for travelers. Being able to instantly know the time in your current location while also being able to see the current time around the world is reassuring. This new world timer mechanism, unveiled at Baselworld 2012, made its debut in conjunction with the Transocean Chronograph, a movement developed in-house.