270/233 are as good as ROLEX

Dec 29, 2009,12:07 PM
 

Old Panerai GMTs (based on 7750) are mostly the opposite.

The 24hrs hand has to be the LOCAL TIME hand...and not HOME TIME. This is the hand you have to set in "hour" steps. This mainly means that you have to set the full watch each time you travel to other time zone.

233 and 270 do the right way.
The GMT hand ( not 24hr hand...but 12hr longer hand of the watch), is your home time. And you can easily change the small hour hand in one hour steps.
The long 12hr hand also is linked to the am/pm indication, that helps you to track if its day or night at home.
The new 3 days automatic models don´t have am/pm indication, so I think its not very useful if you really travels far away.

The only thing its missing is the date fast change, that I think Rolex has.

Cheers!


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 By: AnthonyTsai : December 27th, 2009-13:15
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 By: Montrachet : December 27th, 2009-20:55
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270/233 are as good as ROLEX

 
 By: nacho m : December 29th, 2009-12:07
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