Worldtimers
Hi folks I was on the market for a worldtimer recently, and I did not find any seriously helpful comparison thread. I actually did choose and buy mine eventually.,..but I thought it coudl e interesting to see the Purists thoughts about them. These the alt...
...colse your eyes...
...and imagine a 5130, only without patek written on it....would it still be the clear winner? Movement wise, all the others seem more innovative, when not outright better than the PP, probably the VC as a pure WT is the best/more interesting movement. De...
I am far from being a Patek Fan, Giovanni, but I can tell you that
Since I saw the 5110 on pictures, in 2000, I knew I had to have one, and not for the name on the dial, as, I agree with you, it doesn't do nothing for me, but for the quintessential character of this Watch. When I knew, a few weeks before it wans announce...
De gustibus...
non disputandum est. Taste is taste, and it is as subjective as it gets. My choice ultimately has been the VC, which is at my wrist as i write this; I cannot make you (or anybody) like what I like, nor I would care to do that if I could, BUT I do care to ...
I Think That You Left One Out
I agree that the Patek is the clear winner among the watches you name, but, in my opinion, it gets much closer competition from Andersen's Worldtimers than from any of your other candidates.
Hurrah!
and the birch-blue that inspired him from his country house makes the 1884 Worldtimer all the more desirable - and wearable. Cheers to you and Svend! amerix
Figure out the functionality first.
If you want to be able to go on a trip, set the time zone, and then look at your wrist and find out what time it is and also what time it is at home, many of them are useless (unless you are able to read very small subdials).
Other world time watches worth considering are:
Brequet Hora Mundi Marine (discontinued now) Brequet 5717 Hora Mundi (current version) Breitling Transocean Below are my WT watches Brequet Hora Mundi World Time siblings ...
VC Patrimony Traditionelle World Timer
The VC World Timer is IMHO value for money and is much advanced. 1. To start with it has a movement that has been exclusively developed for the world-time functionality and is not an add-on module to a base movement 2. VC world timer covers 37 time-zones,...