You hear a lot about watch complications these days. Most of the stories are based around the overly complex mechanisms that watchmakers sit at their benches, toiling for weeks, months and years to develop, costing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars which serve no functional purpose and can rarely be explained by the watch owner. Then you have the Girard Perregaux WWTC, likely the most functional and practical watch on the market today for today’s business traveler. As someone who travels a lot and regularly calls different timezones, the Girard Perregaux WWTC actually provides functionality that most others don’t. That is, all of the timezones permanently and legibly represented on the dial. Seems rather intuitive right? Wrong! So many other “world time” watches have the current time and a quickset of 24 cities/regions displaying the other zones one at a time (meaning a max of 2 on the dial). The WWTC features all of the timezones on an inner rotating bezel and comes in model variations with a power reserve, chronograph, perpetual calendar or stock market hours featuring different markets around the world, called “The Financial.” Thanks GP, a world time watch that finally makes sense.
