What Are GMT Watches And How Do They Work?

You must have heard the term “GMT” in your school or seen it at the malls or airports, or might have come across it while searching for a perfect outdoor watch. GMT has an extraordinary significance and contribution to the watchmaking industry. GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time, is the average solar time as per the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. You must know the fact that GMT is not affected by Daylight Savings.

GMT functions let you set an added time zone (or two or three) on your watch. A traditional watch has been made to rotate the hour hand in full once every 12 hours. On the other hand, the GMT watch function involves just a second-hour hand on the same watch face that is geared to rotate once every 24 hours. Or it is exactly half as fast as the other hour hand. The second-hour hand indicates a second-time scale that reads to 24 instead of 12, normally located on the innermost part of the watch dial.

Because all 24 hours of a day are represented on a watch with a GMT hand, there is no chance of getting the wrong impression about whether the hour is a.m. or p.m. GMT watches offer a handy function for those who travel through the night. For international pilots, the 24-hour hand of the watch every time points to GMT. It is a part of communication and route-finding practices that help remove confusion.

Our flagship automatic mechanical watch, the Fleetmaster, has an adjustable GMT hand for dual-time reading. It has a small, red color hour hand that allows users to set a second-time zone by the 24-hour ring. It is on the inner portion of the dial. You can also set the third time zone on this watch using the bezel (the outermost rotating rim of the watch). Also, the Fleetmaster GMT watches are water-resistant up to 200 meters. They have an anti-reflective, scratch-resistant sapphire crystal that can easily take on whatsoever the world throws on its way.

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