Not too busy at all for me.

 

Carfanatic, I like your trick! You have (with a little extra counting) a second time zone bezel, as well as your standard count-up bezel.

I've always wondered, why nobody produces a watch with an easy-change rotating bezel. Change out to the bezel of your choice: alternate time zone, countdown, count-up, whatever; change to any other bezel as needed.

BUT THEN, why would any of us buy multiple watches?

 

Carfanatic, I like your trick! You have (with a little extra counting) a second time zone bezel, as well as your standard count-up bezel.

I've always wondered, why nobody produces a watch with an easy-change rotating bezel. Change out to the bezel of your choice: alternate time zone, countdown, count-up, whatever; change to any other bezel as needed.

BUT THEN, why would any of us buy multiple watches?

Yes, it's a nice hack, but since I travel/track time zones more than I track minutes for diving, etc., I still prefer 12-hour military-style "navigation" bezels like mconlonx is installing on his Dagaz to the various dive bezels (& for those, I like countdown); they're not busy at all & are the original "poor man's GMT". Wholeheartedly agree that watch companies should offer more bezel choices even if the change can't be DIY.

 

I currently live in Seattle but still have property/business/family back in Florida. While I'm on the West Coast I often keep my dive bezels at 9:00 for a quick reference to Eastern time back home. My Turtle stays this way most of the time. It's not really necessary because it's only three hours and easy to perform the calculation in my head, but it has actually proven quite handy and intuitive to read once I got used to it. I don't use it as alternative to a GMT however, and I agree with the above statement that GMT bezels are not too busy, but rather I see it as another way to use a dive bezel (with the added benefit that it is still useful for timing things when needed).

 

Yes, I do this all the time when I travel across sea. Just line up the pip where it needs to go for the new 12:00 and off I go.

 

My daughter and I went to Fiji last spring. She with a diver, me with a GMT. We tried to set her bezel as a 2nd time zone marker, but in the end, the math turned out to be a bit much, and she ended up just asking me for the time.

On the other hand, I do agree that the GMT bezel is of truly limited use. I don't travel THAT much, and the thing is pretty useless as a timer (mine rotates to0 freely and there is no clear "start" mark).

So I wear the diver with the satisfying bezel clicks most of the time, but still have the GMT for the next trip to wherever.

 

Yeah I do find the dive bezel has more use and love playing with bezel and hearing that satisfying 120 clicks. Regarding gmt, I’ve tried couple of them(Omega SMP sword hands and Tag F1 Gmt(Black/blue), but always preferred the regular dive bezel look. To each his own I guess. Glad to see we’re finding other ways to use the dive bezel other than timing things.


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I do this all the time when I travel between the US and HK/China/Korea. Really useful actually!

 

I do that with all my divers' bezels. All the time. I don't think you can find a single WRUW pic of my divers with the triangle at 12'o clock [emoji6]

For instance:

 

This is a neat idea! Never thought about doing it.

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I'll honestly probably never use the bezel as a timing device, so I figured I might as well swap out the insert. Also have a different bezel on the way, so for now it's waiting. Pic with new bezel insert is just placed on the watch for reference...

 

I’ve used my GMT bezel for longer timing sequences. I’ve heard of people running a chronograph as GMT, but haven’t thought of using a dive bezel for GMT...

 

So every hour you readjust the bezel? Or am I misunderstanding the hack?

 

Like this. I'm W coast my clients are E coast. Their 12 is my 9. I rotate bezel so pip (ie, 12 on the bezel) is opposite 9 on the dial. Just remember "their bezel is my dial." The trick is to read the bezel's 5 min as 1:00, 10 min as 2:00, etc. Only one setting of the bezel is needed, no hourly adjustments required. (And of course you have multiple time zones represented by that one bezel setting, if you can keep them all in your head!)

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Major heresy here on WUS but on the rare occasions that I actually need to know the time somewhere else in the world I ask my phone - despite having enough GMTs and worldtimers to start a shop.

 

Here are 3 examples:
1. East Coast 2:55
2. Central Time 1:55 (because the 10 is the 2 marker)
4. UK Time 7:55 (because the 40 is now the 8 marker)

You wont know AM/PM in some time zones but if it's E coast and W coast, then it is simple.

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Right but as an hour passes none of it's true anymore? Maybe I'll YouTube it I've never been a math guy. Nice Hamilton though!

 

Thanks, like it a lot.

I have not changed the location of the bezel all day so the times for EST AND CST are correct, 5:53 and 4:53. The hour hand is pointed to the 6 and the 5 because 25/5=5.

If it were 3:00 EST the hour hand would point to the 10 on the bezel to show 2:00 CST, 10/5=2.

Does that make sense?

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I've wanted to buy a 12-hour bezel for my SKX for a while so I have a cheap way to do a 2nd time zone. I think the 12-hour bezel for me would be almost necessary for me to make it really useful. Having a dive bezel where only numbered every 10 minutes, makes me have to think too hard to make the adjustment.

 

I agree with you. 12 hr markers would make it easier to tell time for another zone. LOVE your watch

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Now ya got it! I agree that it is very confusing at first and setting the bezel as a second time zone took a little bit of time

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But can you read the second time zone without rotating the entire watch so the pip is at your "faux noon"? Quickly? After 5 drinks at the hotel bar?
With an actual GMT you can track three times zones.

 

You cannot since there's only 3 hands. There's no argument that the gmt watch is a much more useful tool for tracking different time zones. But as you can see other folks around here found creative ways to use their dive bezel to track another time. Just sharing knowledge that's all. Sharing is caring..

 

never thought about doing this, will do now!

 

That's pretty clever. Slightly cumbersome but it gets the job done.

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I may add cost effective

 

that's a good hack for those who can do it quickly. For me, I don't think I would use a bezel for it unless it were specifically a GMT bezel. I don't change my watch until landing at my destination so I usually know just how many +/- hours I am. Just adding or subtracting that amount (while requiring some mental math) is faster for me than finding pip; remembering pip is new 12 o'clock and 15 mark = 3 o'clock, 20 = 4 o'clock, 30 = 6, etc. I acknowledge it's not looking for waldo and then doing trig or anything, but that's my thoughts. Moreover, with a dive bezel, I tend to track the most random things throughout the day on trips: how long will deboarding take? how long is the commute from the airport to my hotel, etc.

 

I'd probably use it not as a traveling time reference, but to track a time somewhere else in the world (a use case that I've seen called an "office GMT" rather than a "traveler's GMT"). Like if I want to know the time of day for our extended families in Italy or Korea, I'd set the bezel to their time zone.

Even that way, it's a little clunky, because it's really only comparing their time to my local time since the watch doesn't have an additional hour hand. If I change time zones, I'd have to adjust the bezel, too. (btw, don't forget that some dual-time-zone watches use a second 12-hour hand, not a 24-hour hand)