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Who uses all the features of their Rolex - for their intended purpose?
I use the date/time and 2nd/3rd time zones. I think the GMT is probably the most used for its true features. Even if you don't travel to other time zones, you likely have business, family, agents, etc. in other time zones so the utility is there for nearly everyone.
In a poll earlier today, most divers watch owners don't dive with their watches. So, submariners and SD's, while great and rugged watches, aren't used that much for diving. I'll bet most Daytona owners don't use the chronograph other than when they first bought them ... especially when you have to unscrew the pushers. I'll bet most of the pushers are tested when bought and then left screwed down. No date - given up for a watch that only tells time, yet costs $2,800 more than the GMT IIc. Speak up on how you use your particular model and what features you do or don't use. |
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Fondly Remembered
Join Date: May 2005
Real Name: JJ
Location: Auckland, NZ
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I use the 2 hands to tell time and the date to tell the date!!
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Real Name: Chris
Location: WXSW
Watch: GMT (116710)
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I have a GMT.
Once in a while I will use the second time zone function. Not a function I use everyday, very helpful during travel. ![]()
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Real Name: Dom
Location: Melbourne
Watch: Sub 16610
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Haven't used my Submariner for diving yet
I have used it in a submarine though, does that count?
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I use all the available functions of my GMT II.
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: fl
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When we travel and cross time zones the GMT is an invaluable tool. I call home frequently and it makes the transition so easy.
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Real Name: Buz
Location: Atlanta
Watch: Rolex Tudor Pam
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I use the second time zone feature as well as the jump hour on my GMT regularly. The deepest my sub has been is the kitchen sink. I use all the features on my Explorer regularly also.
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Real Name: Dell Deaton
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Although I'm not wearing it as I type this, thank goodness for my Explorer I: Unlike others who appear to be in denial about the full functionality of their watches (!), when I wear my Explorer I, it serves every function for which it was designed!
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Of course I wear it for swimming, hot tubs (!), and when I'm out in my kayak; no worries. Date function is easy (and something I miss on my watches that are without). The bezel is a tough one. I use it to time meetings; it's indispensible to my work, and tracking billings. And it's probably not right for me to point out that even diver's don't rely on diver bezels for diving, given today's technology. Then, Eureka! it is true that I wore it when I was w/ my son's Cub Scout Pack and spent the night on the U.S.S. Silversides, a surviving World War II submarine now harbored in Muskegon, Michigan. I'll have to check my facts here, but I think it's actually still own by the Navy, so, I mean, what else could one ask for here? A Submariner in a submarine! How's that? ![]()
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Real Name: Paul
Location: USA-Carolina
Watch: SDDS, Submariner
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I use my Sub for it's intended purpose. Shoveling mulch, weedwacking brush, hunting, mowing the lawn, attending sporting events and the opera, sleeping, taking out the trash and the daily shower.
My Sub is a tank and has taken everything I have dished out over the past 13years. It has never let me down. I'd say this Rolex has satisfied all of my intended purposes and then some. |
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Real Name: Jack
Location: Atlanta, GA
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My 4th hand get used regularly. I also use the watch to tell time and the date function to know the date. I think that covers everything!
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Siberia,yes it is
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bla
as i live in a big country & cross its time zones pretty often traveling i use my GMTII a lot, next to this i dive and use my sub for this, this is why i chose these models actually. (and there nice of course)
next on the agenda is a Daytona, but indeed more of the apearance, then for tracking any time.. ![]() |
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Location: Good ol' USA
Watch: DATEJUST (116200)
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I use my GMT II dual time function a lot, when traveling internationally and when at home.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Real Name: Gary
Location: GMT-6
Watch: GMT
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Use my GMT all the time for the time zone
Use my Sub timer for everything from cooking, to meetings, to parking meters.
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Real Name: Rick
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well dunno bout the 2nd time zone n all but a few weeks back my gmt really got to my senses after passing out (wild party session / binge drinking)... got up the next day at 9 so jus rushing to get ready for work only to realize its 21 hrs... :D all thanks to me gmt! got back in bed! :P :D
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Real Name: Dick
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Real Name: Dom
Location: Melbourne
Watch: Sub 16610
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I'm part of a group who own the Oberon class sub HMAS Otama, we plan on turning it into a world class tourist attraction unlike other submarine displays, this one will incorporate a sound and light show, to give visitors the feeling of being on an actual submarine during procedures like emergency dive, torpedo attack, torpedo launch etc.
www.otama.com.au ![]() I'm heading over to Hawaii next month where the US Navy are giving me a tour of the USS Bowfin, as well as a few other things. ![]()
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Location: Canada
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use my AK to tell time. although sometimes on a sunny day i use the saphire crystal to reflect sunlight into people's faces to blind and irritate them (well, i don't do that - but i could)!
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Real Name: Eddie
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Ummm, what they all said.
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Location: Beverly Hills, CA
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I can't say I have done any yachting since I got my Yachtmaster, but...
I constantly use the date function, each and every day. I have to sign a lot of documents daily so I rely on the date to tell me what day it is (yes, that's goofy). I also use the bezel on a daily basis. (OT...I know why the Sub's bezel is uni-directional, for diving, but why is the YM's bezel bi-directional? I don't know if there is inherently anything in Yachting that made it that way.) I swim with the watch, in the pool, and in the blue Pacific (both in Hawaii and California). And, of course, it tells time really well. |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Real Name: Stan
Location: Brunswick, Ohio
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I use the Explorer 2's 24hr hand a lot on my monthly flights between WA, OH. Diver watches & me stay on shore, high and dry.
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Real Name: Robert
Location: Angelus Oaks, CA
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I don't use the Queen Bee Detector.
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