The new Polaris Geographic WorldTime

I was fortunate to get first aliquot of this limited edition boutique piece. I have been looking for a world time to add to my collection. I was considering the Richard Mille world time but the dial was tool large for me so i went with the RM 11-02 but another story. I considered the Vacheron Constantin Overseas world time. I like this piece but dial is not easy to read with 37 time zones. The new Breitling navitimer world time (not released yet), and JLC Geophysic. I like the geophysic but the fact I saw three of these and the quartz like seconds hand movement itself was not the issue but the fact that for some of the ticks -- did not line up precisely with the seconds marker and this would drive me nuts.. Ok that is me though. If that was not as issue for me, I would have gone with the Geophysic.

Here are some of my first comments-- the plus and minus issues as I see it. The watch comes with a leather strap but i purchased the bracelet as an extra. I prefer bracelets in general but wanted this as more of a sporty look.
The watch with the bracelet is very comfortable. I have a small 6.4 in wrist and wears well. Not heavy by any means. I do like PR indicators on both manual and automatic. In reality the most important complication one can have after time and date. The dials are easy to read. Even the date is readable for the size of the dial. So good contrast. I like the DST markings as well.

The 10'oclock crown moves the 24hr dial, city dial and small time dial at 6'oclock. The main crown in the 2 position moves the 24hr dial and the small time dial. To set the time by main crown you end up moving the two time dials, 24hr dial and city dial. The one negative is that the only way to use the two time dials as a true GMT is if you set the small dial to the local time and leave the main time dial as the home time. I would prefer the opposite scenario. You can set the two dials for two time zones as you wish but then the 24hr dial/city dials will not be set correctly.

Minor issues -- The 5' end of the central seconds hand is a bit longer than i like. Overall i like this very much. Could easily be a daily wear piece. Happy to answer any questions.

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It is for me the most convincing piece of the Polaris collection

By: foversta : October 21st, 2018-13:35

Congrats and thanks for the nice pic and your very interesting comments! Fx

With the Polaris Memovox 50th Anniversary... Because JLC revisited in a very good way, with this touch of modernity which is the same than Rolex used for the Submariner or the SD. [nt]

By: amanico : October 21st, 2018-14:31

I like this variant. The rest of the Polaris line is just eh [nt]

By: ripper444 : October 21st, 2018-14:18

Congratulations! Funnily I was thinking about which JLC world time I would go for...

By: amanico : October 21st, 2018-14:29

And the Geophysic UT and this Polaris Geographique came to my mind. The Geophysique has the advantage of a new movement, the case being new for both of them, as well as the size, ( or almost, as the Geophysic is 41, 6 mm ). The Polaris Geographique has th...

Thanks for all the comments

By: mark1958a : December 22nd, 2018-14:23

I appreciate all the responses. Feel free to ping me with any questions now that I have had some time to wear and get used to it.

Nice, I too am looking for a world timer.

By: Thomas_3 : October 21st, 2018-16:31

I notice it is set to Denver time (MST), do you live there?

Nice one. What do you think of the metal bracelet? [nt]

By: vitalsigns : October 21st, 2018-17:38

Oh you have it on a bracelet

By: jomni1 : October 21st, 2018-19:07

That’s great.

Thanks for the comments

By: mark1958a : October 21st, 2018-19:56

I must have had it set to Mountain time by mistake when i took that. I was playing with the dials before writing taking, I live on West coast.. Good catch though I really love the bracelet. Nicely polished and very comfortable buckle. The one thing I disl...

Set to Pacific Daylight time

By: mark1958a : October 21st, 2018-21:00

Actually looking at the photo i took, it is set to pacific daylight time.

Congratulations! I'll probably have a Look at one of these next week.

By: damianp : October 22nd, 2018-05:43

Looking forward to it.

correction

By: mark1958a : November 4th, 2018-10:51

I need to correct one thing i stated in the initial review. You can set the larger time dial to local time and leave the smaller dial with home time while maintaining the correct time zones around the rest of the globe. The ring time will be set to the ho...

Thanks for this correction, Mark. Enjoy! [nt]

By: amanico : December 23rd, 2018-01:19

A very nice propoition.

By: stromer : December 23rd, 2018-05:31

I can understand your feelings well. This is a very nice, less formal version of the Geographique. Had no chance to see it in the ral so far, but it looks very promising. Maybe even better than the Geophysic UT? I had some close looks at the latter, and i...

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