Any advice on how to utilize three time zones on BLNR.

[2ltdjorn]

The booklet that cam with it was very simple to say the least...

Or how to set it?


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[Bo-Dacious]

1st is the standard watch face. The second is the GMT hand. The third utilizes the rotating bezel.

[beshannon]

http://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=32170

[Daryl]

here: https://youtu.be/Xy1b1T4dboI

[Tools]

Originally Posted by 2ltdjorn

The booklet that cam with it was very simple to say the least...

Or how to set it?

You cannot see 3 zones at the same time. the third zone is a momentary look by turning the bezel

[Wcdhtwn]

The GMT hand becomes the hour hand local time. The hour hand becomes the GMT and the bezel time zone is set off the GMT. 3 time zones.

[silverbullet818]

Originally Posted by Wcdhtwn

The GMT hand becomes the hour hand local time. The hour hand becomes the GMT and the bezel time zone is set off the GMT. 3 time zones.

This is one way of using the GMT movement but may not be the most popular.

The other method and the one I use is as follows:

* main hands set to local time
* GMT hand set to GMT time
* bezel turned to coincide the +/- GMT setting corresponding the city you want to track.

I find the above method better as it IMO intuitively makes use of the GMT offsets unique and known to most. Pilots I believe use this method too. Also, unlike the first me proposed, the method I recommend is easier to set as one only sets the hour hand which is easy to do (crown setting 2).

It's more cumbersome to set the GMT hand as one needs to hack the second hand and fiddle with the minute hand to set it.

[CRM114]

3 time zones, set as silverbullet says;

1) GMT/24-hour hand set to UTC
2) Hour and minute hands set to local time
3) Bezel turned/offset so the 24 hour hand points to the corresponding time in the 3rd time zone you want to see.

Example, starting from zero.

1) Using the 2nd and 3rd crown positions, line up all the hands to point at 12 o'clock, and the bezel set with the triangle marker on top. Adjust the date to your current one while doing this.

2) First set UTC. With the crown out all the way spin all the hands until the 24-hour hand points to UTC as read from the 24hr bezel. Set the minute hand to however many minutes it is past the hour.

3) Push the crown back in to the 2nd position and use the hour quick-set feature to move the hour hand back or forward until you have the correct local time reflected on the dial. This will adjust the hour hand and the date, but the minute and 24 hour hands will remain where you set them. Now it's showing 2 time zones.

4) To read a 3rd time zone, you move the bezel to reflect the local time (expressed in 24 hour terms) in that zone as read from the 24-hour hand. Since every plot on a 12-hour dial represents 2 hours of time against the 24-hour GMT hand, I don't need the bezel to tell me what UTC is with a numeral. 1st plot = 0200 UTC, 2nd plot = 0400, halfway between 4th and 5th = 0900, etc.

For instance, if I'm in Shanghai and the local time is 12 noon, it's 0400 UTC and the 24 hour hand will be pointing to the 2nd plot (and the "4" on the bezel if the bezel marker is at 12 o'clock). But if I want to always know what time local time it is in, say, NYC as well, I simply turn/offset the bezel so the 24 hour hand points to NYC's local time as expressed on a 24 hour clock. In this case it would be 2300, 11 PM (the day before).

[Memphis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5YcVNJLQ2s

[2ltdjorn]

Can you move the second hand?

[2ltdjorn]

Originally Posted by Tools

You cannot see 3 zones at the same time. the third zone is a momentary look by turning the bezel

This makes more sense

[silverbullet818]

If you set the GMT the other way than I and other have said, and use the GMT hand to track any arbitrary timezone, it would be difficult to remember what offset to use on the outer bezel.

[WatchinMD]

I set the H/M hands to local, GMT to UTC and turn bezel to home time, as spelled out above. I guess one point is that it takes some mental arithmetic to read the UTC time from the GMT hand with the bezel turned.

[AK1984]

Originally Posted by Daryl

here: https://youtu.be/Xy1b1T4dboI

People that know how to add make GMT obsolete for 3rd time zone tracking


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[brettpaul]

Originally Posted by silverbullet818

This is one way of using the GMT movement but may not be the most popular.

The other method and the one I use is as follows:

* main hands set to local time
* GMT hand set to GMT time
* bezel turned to coincide the +/- GMT setting corresponding the city you want to track.

I find the above method better as it IMO intuitively makes use of the GMT offsets unique and known to most. Pilots I believe use this method too. Also, unlike the first me proposed, the method I recommend is easier to set as one only sets the hour hand which is easy to do (crown setting 2).

It's more cumbersome to set the GMT hand as one needs to hack the second hand and fiddle with the minute hand to set it.

This is exactly how I use mine - I live/work in the Middle East but have a business in the UK, and simply turn the 24-hour bezel to tell the time outside of my 2 key timezones!

[CRM114]

Originally Posted by AK1984

People that know how to add make GMT obsolete for 3rd time zone tracking

People that know how to add make Submariner obsolete for bezel-timing anything.

[HogwldFLTR]

Originally Posted by CRM114

People that know how to add make Submariner obsolete for bezel-timing anything.

I believing addition plus memory are required. Too easy to forget initial times.

[silverbullet818]

Originally Posted by CRM114

People that know how to add make Submariner obsolete for bezel-timing anything.

For those haters out there, I'm sure they will say the entire watch and GMT thing is obsolete. I don't think so.