Horological Meandering

So I have a number of travelling two timezone watches, such as the Blancpain Leman Reveil and the Ulysse Nardin GMT Perpetual, and I am very happy with them, but I do not have any of the stay-at-home type of two timezone watch.  I have been looking at the Maurice Lacroix Pontos Decentrique GMT, and think it fills the bill very nicely.  Does anyone have an opinion about this watch, or, alternatively, have another favorite stay-at-home to recommend?  Thank you very much.

Very different, but both are very nice pieces.  The Lange is perhaps the easiest and most complete dual time piece I've ever seen.

Good luck,

Douglas

I have the Pontos, and it's a fun watch with some interesting features.
The easy button-press adjustment of the second time zone is the most fun.
It's a large watch but easy enough to wear, coming standard with both rubber and leather quick-release straps. There's a pin-type buckle and a deployant.
I understand they have recently released a smaller steel version, though mine is the titanium one. And of course gold, according to the MLC report just posted here on PuristsPro.

The dial is available in black or titanium grey. I think the black one might offer more contrast with the hands, but I am not sure. Notice in my first picture the hands appear black. But they are not, they are shiny as seen in the third picture.

One fun feature is the lume on minute markers, the date numerals and the moon.
Hands are hard to read in the dark though ...

The crown is interestingly ridged in a spiral pattern and is easy to use, but does not screw down.
There are lots of interesting details, such as the bezel around the 2nd time zone subdial, which swoops around.














I have a bunch of other GMT watches too - do you define those as stay at home???

Cheers

Cazalea

 

 

 

Thanks for the comments, I am excited about this watch.  I define a stay-at-home watch as one where the main display remains on home time and the secondary display is the second timezone, while on travelling watches the reverse is true.  This is most clearly a stay-at-home watch because the day/night indicator apples to the secondary display; if one were to use that for the zone one travelled to, presumably one would know whether it was day or night there, but want to know whether it was day or night back home, which the watch would not tell you.

Best wishes,

... whether the date is coupled with the quick-setting hour hand or not. It does not make much sense if you are in New York, but the date still reflects the time at home in Hong Kong.

Regards,
Marcus