Finally someone who explains that you cannot show three zones at once. So many of these videos do not explain this. I have a Batman and I’ve sat there thinking as soon as you move the bezel the GMT hand no longer points at the time you set.
Precisely. To claim it can show 3 time zones simultaneously is essentially a lie. It only shows the 3rd by completely baffling you about the 2nd. However i do recognise - and this video is very clear on this actually - that it can very easily switch between a 2nd and 3rd time zone.
This is a good explanation. I would argue this is probably one of the most misunderstood complications in the watch community. A lot of people think you need a rotating bezel to do the second time zone
This is great! Thanks! Tip: Even with a rotated bezel, you can continue to read the UTC time simply by remembering which indice means what UTC hour. Eg 3=6AM. 6=12PM. 9=6PM (or 18:00). Simply multiply the indice by 2 to get the UTC 24 hour time, even after you’ve turned the bezel.
Great video. I am a new GMT owner was and confused to hear other videos state that you can read three time zones at the same time. As correctly pointed out in this video at the end, since there is only 1 rotating bezel, at any given time the GMT/reference hand can only show one time. The 12 Mercedes hand shows the second time zone.
@@bobswatches Incorrect - the Submariner has a 120 click bezel, the GMT Master 2 has a 24 click bezel. This is because the Submariner is used to time oxygen tanks in 30 second increments whilst the GMT Master is designed to track the time zone differences in one hour increments. I hope this clears up your question Timber Tramp.
@Timber Tramp - so to answer your question regarding above - if you wanted to time minute intervals and wanted a Rolex - the Submariner or Yachtmaster would prove more useful to you. It's worth noting that older GMT masters had a 120 click bezel, but if you wanted this reference in the video you wouldn't get that function. Alternatively - you could always get a chronograph and subsequently could time the seconds and minutes too. I hope this helps you.
Still confused and I own the watch. I suspect it I actually traveled more it would evenully become clearer to me. As it is now I just don't work with the functions enough. But I'll save this for future reference thanks.
I bought mine for 7750 GBP recently, get on a wait list and be patient would be my advice otherwise you will have to pay a hefty premium in the used market to skip the wait.
@@climbjay Indeed - I just bought mine at an AD. People should just buy retail, I don't understand why someone would pat over the odds for an in-production watch. Literally just get on a list and if you get it, great! If it goes out of production before you can get one then look at the used market.
This is so unnecessarily complicated. It should let you change the hour marker by 1 hour (which it already does) but just have it leave behind a skeleton of the hour marker which represents the home time, no other overly complicated confusing crap. This is how Patek does it and it's perfect and simple.
I found my GMT Master IIs to be more useful with a drop of Loctite to freeze the rotatable bezel with 2400 at the top. That saved me air filing flight plans that had a future planned time off 2 hours in the past LOL after inadvertently knocking the bezel about. I later switched to Explorer IIs with their fixed bezels. But then Rolex slowly morphed into a bunch of miserable pricks and I switched to Grand Seiko. I never in decades of around the world travel found the need to keep track of three time zones. Silliness really.
This watch doesn't tell clearly. Third time zone. If the explanation is about turning the bezel, then there would be 24 time zones and not three. Knowing the third time zone on that watch would mean to imagine a 24h scale printed on the dial and reading the time from the GMT hand pointing at tjah 24h scale that isn't there.
I disagree, it can show 3 timezones at the same time Paused at 6:41 1st timezone w/ regular hands 10 minutes past 10 2nd timezone set w/ GMT and read on the dial 10 minutes past 7 3rd timezone set w/ rotating bezel 10 minutes past 2 Each of these timezones can be set individually
This is incorrect. At 6:41 there are only two time zones. The 10 past 7 you think it is, is actually the GMT hand on a 12h scale. So it is not 10 past 7...
@@Kenzabukuro Reading 12 hour scale as 24 hour scale is a mind calculation process. It's not something that watch is showing you. Similarly you can read any scale as shifted by any number of hours in your mind, and have all the time zones in the world simultaneously on any watch. The whole point of the GMT complication is to read it directly. And so it only can have 2 zones simultaneously. It could be 3 if it only had another 24 hours scale somewhere. But it doesn't.
@@mianrowanI just got my first GMT and was thinking the same as the OP until I noticed after a few hours it was all messed up. Your comment explained why very clearly.
This is words most boring video I’ve ever seen. I’ve totally lost interest in the first 5 minutes. This video should be titled history lesson of Rolex.
Finally someone who explains that you cannot show three zones at once. So many of these videos do not explain this. I have a Batman and I’ve sat there thinking as soon as you move the bezel the GMT hand no longer points at the time you set.
You can still picture the GMT hand in the wrist reference frame e.g. imagine you never moved the bezel. That’s where the 3rd time zone comes from
Precisely. To claim it can show 3 time zones simultaneously is essentially a lie. It only shows the 3rd by completely baffling you about the 2nd. However i do recognise - and this video is very clear on this actually - that it can very easily switch between a 2nd and 3rd time zone.
I think you can just move Back the bezel at 12 o clock and reset to the 3rd time
In you move the bezel Back at 12 o clock you can figure out other Times
This is a good explanation. I would argue this is probably one of the most misunderstood complications in the watch community. A lot of people think you need a rotating bezel to do the second time zone
Because the first Rolex GMT could only tell an adjustable second time zone with a rotating bezel. The GMT hand was not quick set at the time
This is great! Thanks! Tip: Even with a rotated bezel, you can continue to read the UTC time simply by remembering which indice means what UTC hour. Eg 3=6AM. 6=12PM. 9=6PM (or 18:00). Simply multiply the indice by 2 to get the UTC 24 hour time, even after you’ve turned the bezel.
This has been the best video I've seen that describes how to properly use this watch. Thanks!
The GMT M2 is the coolest Rolex 😎
Great video and explanation . The suggestion to reset all hands before initial setting was the most helpful for me to get mine dialed in.
This has been so useful, I'm now completely convinced I do not need a GMT.
ha ha
Great video. I am a new GMT owner was and confused to hear other videos state that you can read three time zones at the same time. As correctly pointed out in this video at the end, since there is only 1 rotating bezel, at any given time the GMT/reference hand can only show one time. The 12 Mercedes hand shows the second time zone.
Awesome video, my new GMT Master II is a little different from my Submariner so I needed a little help with this one haha thanks 😄
Thank you for the very detailed explanation and instruction. Now I know how to use mine 😊
Iam grateful for your explanation!
I have thought that would be possible display three time zones, now I understood!
Not possible to display 3 time zones on this watch, unlike other brands that can.
I am still confused on how to use this watch 😬
How do you account for 30 min differences in time zones internationally?
Have you found a youtube video for this yet?
The first correct explation, on how the gmt Master can display different time zones. BTW: since 1972, GMT is no longer used and replaced by UTC.
The blue glare on the Date cyclops is strange , usually only replicas have that
Can you set something like a UTC +5 and a UTC + 5:30?
After watching 20 videos and this one too. Still didn’t understand
I sale many video and it can show 3 Times at same time i think .. when you move the bezel just need to move on 12 for 1 second and move Back
Imo they should add an inner 24 hour scale to make it a no hassle three timezone watch.
Yeah but it's only a Rolex, what do you expect.
Counter-clockwise rotation of crown to advance time 🤔 What movement is in that thing?
I was thinking the same thing. It was throwing me off.
So when they say three time zones, they mean local, the desired time zone, and GMT only. Right?
Or use your phone to check the time in any part of the world
Perfect product
Not perfect, only displays 2 time zones visually without a 24hr scale inside the dial.
It will be very useful to show a video how to use this watch as a chronograph the same as the submariner.
Is it a 60 click bezel? Looks larger. I was wondering about using the bezel as a minute timer as well...
The GMT-Master bezel has 120 clicks.
@@bobswatches Incorrect - the Submariner has a 120 click bezel, the GMT Master 2 has a 24 click bezel. This is because the Submariner is used to time oxygen tanks in 30 second increments whilst the GMT Master is designed to track the time zone differences in one hour increments. I hope this clears up your question Timber Tramp.
@Timber Tramp - so to answer your question regarding above - if you wanted to time minute intervals and wanted a Rolex - the Submariner or Yachtmaster would prove more useful to you. It's worth noting that older GMT masters had a 120 click bezel, but if you wanted this reference in the video you wouldn't get that function. Alternatively - you could always get a chronograph and subsequently could time the seconds and minutes too. I hope this helps you.
What model is this ?
Ahhhh I don’t get it. But all good.
lolll same.
Didn’t get it so fast
Still confused and I own the watch. I suspect it I actually traveled more it would evenully become clearer to me. As it is now I just don't work with the functions enough. But I'll save this for future reference thanks.
This explanation was supposed to be simple but just like you I am still confused
I found it useful to look at it this way:
The hour hand only does the hours and the minute had does both the 24H (red) and the minutes.
Get digital to prevent confusing.
why is that no one talks about 30 mins increments in timezones .. and these watches are handicapped to produce it
What is “Deet”?
nice channel
i like it!!!
the coke model is the best.
No the best one is the one you can get at retail mine was the LN.
What about the Pepsi?
Casio
no idea what shes talking about
😂😂😂😂
Then don’t buy a Rolex GMT Master.
This is basic. Even apple watches have GMT faces.
She lost me at “hi everyone “
GMT-master ll selling prise
$20k aprox, depending on condition.
I bought mine for 7750 GBP recently, get on a wait list and be patient would be my advice otherwise you will have to pay a hefty premium in the used market to skip the wait.
@@perkinwarbeck3029 insane grey market prices
@@climbjay Indeed - I just bought mine at an AD. People should just buy retail, I don't understand why someone would pat over the odds for an in-production watch. Literally just get on a list and if you get it, great! If it goes out of production before you can get one then look at the used market.
@@perkinwarbeck3029 Or just buy an Omega or Breitling and be classy.
This is so unnecessarily complicated. It should let you change the hour marker by 1 hour (which it already does) but just have it leave behind a skeleton of the hour marker which represents the home time, no other overly complicated confusing crap. This is how Patek does it and it's perfect and simple.
I found my GMT Master IIs to be more useful with a drop of Loctite to freeze the rotatable bezel with 2400 at the top.
That saved me air filing flight plans that had a future planned time off 2 hours in the past LOL after inadvertently knocking the bezel about.
I later switched to Explorer IIs with their fixed bezels.
But then Rolex slowly morphed into a bunch of miserable pricks and I switched to Grand Seiko.
I never in decades of around the world travel found the need to keep track of three time zones.
Silliness really.
Tell ‘em THICCNESS!
This watch doesn't tell clearly. Third time zone. If the explanation is about turning the bezel, then there would be 24 time zones and not three.
Knowing the third time zone on that watch would mean to imagine a 24h scale printed on the dial and reading the time from the GMT hand pointing at tjah 24h scale that isn't there.
im thinking the same
It’s beautiful and useful, no doubt, but it’s bloody total faffery for 15 grand.
Yes I know they’re 8 grand list.
Ahhh a fellow faff user. Yes. I too hate faffin' about.
£15K for a £5k watch, what a waste of money!
I disagree, it can show 3 timezones at the same time
Paused at 6:41
1st timezone w/ regular hands
10 minutes past 10
2nd timezone set w/ GMT and read on the dial
10 minutes past 7
3rd timezone set w/ rotating bezel
10 minutes past 2
Each of these timezones can be set individually
This is incorrect. At 6:41 there are only two time zones. The 10 past 7 you think it is, is actually the GMT hand on a 12h scale. So it is not 10 past 7...
@@TheJonCruise Read it as 24 hour and it works. It shows 3 time zones at once.
@@Kenzabukuro Reading 12 hour scale as 24 hour scale is a mind calculation process. It's not something that watch is showing you. Similarly you can read any scale as shifted by any number of hours in your mind, and have all the time zones in the world simultaneously on any watch. The whole point of the GMT complication is to read it directly. And so it only can have 2 zones simultaneously. It could be 3 if it only had another 24 hours scale somewhere. But it doesn't.
That would not work as the gmt hand moves half as slow as the hour hand lol in an hour it'll be pointing at 15 in between 7 and 8 then what
@@mianrowanI just got my first GMT and was thinking the same as the OP until I noticed after a few hours it was all messed up. Your comment explained why very clearly.
3 minutes of irrelevant information.
This is way too confusing... Ill just use my iphone
My father was an airline captain and was smart enough to figure out time zones without a $20,000 stainless steel watch.
too fucking complicated. just get a patek travel time or jlc dual time.
That watch is far too loose on you
it's not her watch. they just let her use it for the video
How ridiculous
WTF is she talking about, I didn’t want a history about Rolex
This is words most boring video I’ve ever seen. I’ve totally lost interest in the first 5 minutes. This video should be titled history lesson of Rolex.
If you need to track three different time zones, just buy a Apple Watch or use your phone!
How true!
We don't want to. we like real watches and enjoy wearing and looking at them.
Lovely watches. Not the best explanation.
I'm sorry, that screechy voice. Unwatchable (pun intended)
shhhut up. she’s sounds lovely