Birth Year Watches

I’m curious if anyone else has a “birth year” watch? If so, share what it is, why you chose it, and a pic or two! Here’s my watch & story:

I work in the aerospace world and count NASA, JPL, SpaceX, and others among my customers. I love the Speedmaster Professional / NASA connection, and the first “nice” watch I ever bought myself was a modern Speedmaster Pro. For a while I’ve had the itch to find a birth year watch (1989), and finally settled on the Apollo XI 20th Anniversary SMP. I wanted…

Birth Year Watches

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GMT bezel setting

I don’t often wear a GMT, and when I have it would honestly take a sec or 2 to decipher the GMT time. I know… Anyway, recently I rotated the bezel around to put 12 up top and 24/0 at the bottom and it is way more intuitive to read. GMT hand follows the sun: upper left quadrant = morning, vertical = noon, upper right = afternoon, lower right = evening, straight down = midnight. This is WAY better!

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