New GMT face

Keep in mind that Omega isn't the only game in space. Fortis has watches space-certified by the Russian and German space agencies. (Mind you, I own an Omega Speedmaster Professional and do not own a Fortis Official Cosmonauts AMADEE-18 but...)

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Thanks, this is a good suggestion. Though the “GMT” face does show GMT as a second time zone, I think it should have been renamed as a second time zone face and not as a “GMT” face. But, marketing is marketing.

I sent a suggestion to the link you posted. Hopefully they listen!

Thanks!

IMHO - in this case I want the horse to still alive when I’m using it for a professional purpose, I don’t want the horse to lay down and die!

At least the “old horse”, (automatic watch) keeps running, vs. the “latest steed” (the Apple Watch) which barely lasts on an all day international trip from (example) Newark to Sydney, or Chicago - Joberg, or working all day domestic flights without worrying about charging the darned thing.

And as one poster pointed out, now this is becoming a “gas bagging session”...

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yes, I still think my Apple Watch is nice, I’ll use it on ALL of my fitness sessions from 20-100 mile bike rides, (but just about any bicycle ride above about 8 hours, the Apple Watch “craps out” - along with Apple Phone, have to use a battery backup pack for the phone otherwise it dies too, at least the Apple phone has a way to use an external battery pack - if one is actively using a fitness app, GPS and maybe music, the watch will NOT last. Example: Seattle - Portland one day ride (206 miles) - used the iWatch 4 last year, the watch died from a full charge at 0445PDT and died within 12 hours later, luckily the ride was almost over when it died and I charged the watch from the external battery pack from my iPhone. The Heart strap feeding into my riding partners Garmin kept delivering data throughout and after, while my Apple Watch died.

Cool watch!

My cousin was in the NASA Astronaut Corps - Naval Aviator, (ring knocker) Test Pilot, didn’t get to go up before he retired, but still tests airplanes for a private company, wears an Omega GMT. I asked him last night after I got back from an international trip what he thought of using an Apple Watch if he were to go to space. You can guess what he said...

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It would be great if the Apple Watch would last a few days. I might consider changing to it here on earth because of the utility of the watch. :)

Yes, the iPad is a great tool along with the EFIS displays. My company (as I’m sure many others and military) still carry paper backup approach plates/paper Nav charts in case the tech fails. (It would be several steps of course before “absolute” failure happened and most pilots I know still have an E6-B in their flight bags - rather be safe than sorry...)

I've noticed most of these comments were written, as was the watch face released around the equinox. I am seeing the two colors' size of bezel change, as if it indicates length of day. That would be unique, as there is no adjustment for latitude other than the latitude of the selected tome zone city.

The red hand shows whatever you select by double-tapping on the watch face and then selecting a timezone, any timezone of your choosing; i.e. I live in the EST timezone but have relatives in Germany so I select BER (with the little outside bezel) after I double tap on the watch face. Once you select a timezone, you'll have to tap on the little check mark to save it. In my case, the the red hand shows that BER (Berlin) is 6 hours ahead of my local time. To make it easier to recognize, I changed my watch to 24-hours via the watch app on my phone. So, if it's 3 p.m. in my EST zone, the red hand is on 21 (9:00 p.m.) for BER.

I don’t use the Apple Watch for work.

1. The battery doesn’t last long enough for what I need it for (professional aviation) without charging it periodically, and

2. The “GMT” dial is not what a traditional “GMT” dial looks like. Granted, the change to a dual time zone look is nothing new, but IMHO (and many others on this blog) appear to have the same opinion.

I wish Apple would have left the “GMT” dial the way professional people who use it, alone.

Oh well....

A couple of comments that might be useful. First of all, while the red hand is only designed to give you a rough idea of what time it is, on the 24 hour dial, if you want to know the precise time just tap the watch, which brings up the interface to choose the time zone, but also shows the precise time in the selected time zone.

what I don’t understand, however, is the two colors on the dial. They don’t seem to correspond to anything. At one point, I thought they indicated sunrise and sunset, but if I change the outer dial time zone, then change it back to where I had it before, the covers have moved. Here’s a screenshot right now: I am in the UK, and I have the outer dial just sent to current location.

sunrise tomorrow morning at 7:30 AM. Looking at the cover dial, it suggests that sunrise is about 4:30 AM.

if I send it to UTC, which is an hour earlier, here’s what it displays:

So those colored sections really make no sense.

That is not normal, because on mine the colors perfectly correspond to the sunrise/sunset for my location if I set the outer bezel time zone to local. Also, I tried setting mine to London (I am in the US) and again the sunrise/sunset times for London, according to the Internet currently 7:29AM and 6:02 PM, matches the color change lines exactly, as you can see:

(by the way, my sunset in Utah, USA is 18:44 according to the complication in the upper right).

I leave my bezel timezone set to UTC so it is a GMT watch, and as you can see, it is properly an hour different from London (GMT+1) right now and showing the "sunrise/sunset" bands for UTC, even though that is technically not applicable for UTC as it is a timezone based on Greenwich mean time (GMT) without daylight savings time adjustments and used globally with various local sunrise sunset times it will not match:

I can't imagine why yours is behaving so differently. Maybe try rebooting the watch or resetting to factory defaults and setting up again.

Weird. For me, UTC shows in the list right between Ponta Delgada and London:

Thanks! Adding UTC to the iPhone also adds it to the watch. It’s a strange omission by Apple not to have GMT as a basic choice on a GMT face.

Here is a quick overview of what a GMT watch should do: 3 timezones possible. The key is to be able to set the red/24-hour hand to your desired 2nd time zone.

https://youtu.be/BGlyg7RIsQc

But mine shows completely different times. The preset digital time is not reflected on the GMT watch face.

No I haven’t done ‘time ahead’ setting. I am in Kathmandu, Nepal and my office is in London. Just wanted to see both the times on the GMT watch face.