What time is it? Watches and horology

The question is, yellow or rose?

I've already got a rose gold watch. Sold my Rolex last year so don't have any yellow gold in the watch box. Apart from some of Jana's watches that is.

I think it'll have to be Yellow

Actually, im going to repost that

The question is, yellow gold tone paint or rose gold tone paint?

I've already got a rose gold watch. Sold my Rolex last year so don't have any yellow gold tone paint in the watch box. Apart from some of Jana's watches that is.

I think it'll have to be yellow gold tone paint.

Don't forget the white gold tone paint option.

Or is it platinum tone paint?

And whatever the hell this is supposed to be. Distressed hammered yellow gold tone paint? Or Tudor Black Bay Bronze homage?

That, my friend, is brass tone gold paint.

Do it

actual lol

Let’s see if I can get threatened with a takedown for these leaked pics like I did with the 5 Sports.

40mm GS spring drive GMTs (down from the 44mm of the other Sports GMTs they do). Non rotating bezel. Shame about the rotate-a-date still. Available next year apparently.

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! finally.

At 40mm, i'd seriously consider the black one.

Feel like it would benefit from a none GMT bezels, even a blank one.

Lug is weirdly big.

That exists, in the SBGE211G (41mm) and SBGJ203G (40mm but very thick):

https://www.grand-seiko.com/uk-en/collections/sbge211g

https://www.grand-seiko.com/uk-en/collections/sbgj203g

The difference with these new ones is they're lumed as per other GS sports models, but without being the size of a large dive watch. Don't know what the thickness is going to be but it makes me hopeful for more smaller/thinner GSs generally in the future.

Don’t really get the point of having a GMT bezel that doesn’t rotate.

I suppose you move the GMT hour hand to the right time zone and you have no need to move the bezel?
I don't really know much about GMTs

The bezel just makes it easier to read, and I guess it gives it the "sporty" GMT look. The earliest GMT-Masters relied on the rotating bezel to display a second time zone as the 24hr hand couldn’t be set independently. Once it could, they retained the rotating bezel anyway, which gave it the ability to track three time zones rather than just two.

Either way works. A bezel is quicker to adjust, but the GS GMTs do what modern Rolexes do which is to have a jumping local hour hand that you can change forward and backwards without stopping the watch or affecting the minutes or the “home” GMT hand. Pretty neat.

Having a rotating bezel means you can set the GMT hand to home time or UTC, the hour hand to local time, and the bezel to wherever it is you're trying to figure out what the time is. If you have to do conference calls across timezones when you're travelling, it's useful. And yes of course my phone will tell me, but I'd rather my watch did.

Gold ones decent. Getting that blackletter Grand Seiko edge, nice contrast.

Thanks @Regal and @h2o I hadn't considered a third timezone, makes perfect sense.

https://60th.sega.com/en/contents/goods/

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I actually like that but I'm definitely not a Sega fan, also it's ≈ £320 and very basic, quartz, mineral glass etc.

I prefer the FF7 remake watches, sapphire glass, Seiko automatic movement, but $2500.

Date window anywhere other than 3 or 6 now a complete deal-breaker for me.. so pretty much everything on this page is out -

Funny isn’t it? Can date be so important that it’s allowed to wreck the entire thing. Those GS GMTs for example.

I don't mind a date at 4:30 but not if it's rotated. Bell & Ross usually do a good job.

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