Spinnaker Croft 39 GMT Automatic
The Spinnaker Croft 39 GMT Automatic is a fun companion for your day-to-day adventures. With a 39mm steel case it’s well sized for daily wear while sporting 150m water resistance for a quick dip at the pool. In addition to its super legible dive watch display featuring oversize, lumed hour markers and matching hands, it has two 24-hour GMT scales. One is interspersed with the regular hour scale around the edge of the dial and the other is presented on the unidirectional bezel, allowing you to track three time zones simultaneously. It’s powered by the Seiko NH34 automatic movement with 41-hour power reserve.
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Seiko Prospex 1968 Heritage Diver’s GMT 60th Anniversary
With 300m water resistance, the Seiko Prospex 1968 Heritage Diver’s GMT 60th Anniversary really puts the pro into Prospex. It’s a very clean watch with a pristine white dial and aquatic blue ceramic bezel. Adding a splash of colour are the red accents on the seconds hand, 24-hour GMT hand and the GMT inscription below the central handstack. The GMT scale itself is located on the watch’s flange around the edge of the display with a subtle white-grey day/night indication. Below the dial is the 6R54 automatic movement with 72-hour power reserve and a daily accuracy of -15/+25 seconds.
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Farer Maze Blue
The Farer Maze Blue is almost the inverse of the other watches on this list in that it is a GMT watch with diving specs rather than a dive watch with a second time zone. The GMT bezel is very distinctive with its large, graphic style and prominent day/night indication. Meanwhile the case feels slim and dressy at 38mm instead of being a bulky tool design, yet it maintains a 200m water resistance rating. The dial is also nice and legible with oversize lumed hour markers in orange, providing great contrast to the textured white dial.
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Nodus Sector Deep Pioneer
Nodus have designed a tool watch for tackling every eventuality with the Sector Deep Pioneer. Hiking across land, you have your compass bezel. Going swimming? Dive immersion timer and 500m water resistance. In another country, keep track of it with the GMT scale. Structurally, it has a very particular design that’s dominated by the multi-scale bezel, which overhangs with a diameter of 42mm over the 38mm steel case. It’s also surprisingly legible despite the amount of information thanks to the liberal use of lume. Like the Spinnaker above, it’s powered by the Seiko NH34 automatic movement, which is a staple GMT calibre for microbrands.
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Certina DS X GMT
The Certina DS X GMT offers an interpretation of the GMT Dive watch for those who prefer the practicality and precision of quartz. It is equipped with a day/night indicator GMT bezel available in a variety of colours such as blue and red (classic Pepsi style) or this black and dark green version. Though like the Nodus, it also features a compass scale on the bezel, for some extra on-land utility. It changes the watch from a purebred diver into a practical tool watch for all occasions, reflecting the fact that the majority of people will never take their divers into the water anyway.
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Yet more dive watches! It seems that hardly a week goes by without another release into this arena (or should it be marina!). I would have thought that this area had already been flooded with these watches, but apparently not (so it would seem).
I do get the need for this type of watch if you actually venture into the water, but most people that I see wearing these are in and around town and not coastal dwellers or seafarers.
Hand’s-up, I am almost embarrassed to say that I do own a dive watch that I purchased a while ago for it’s waterproof nature, when what I really needed was a sturdy field watch. It rarely gets worn so sits in its box awaiting an eBay purchaser to hit the BIN button. I guess it will get one more outing in a few weeks time when I’m away at the coast for a autumnal wild weather adventure, then back in the warm and dry environs of it box.
I do agree with you, but I actually like sport and dive watches, I do not own any dress watch at all now, in my collection of 20+ watches I don’t have 1