A real GMT for eight hundred bucks
By Dave Kowalski, Chicago ยท
Most cheap GMTs are "caller" GMTs, where the extra hand jumps but your main hour hand doesn't. Fine for a desk guy on Zoom calls. Lousy if you actually travel. The Miyota 9075 in the Hyperion is a proper flyer GMT: you jump the local hour hand on its own when you land and the date follows along. That used to cost you Swiss money.
$800 flat. 39 mm by 12.15 mm, 20 mm lugs, black dial, rotating 24-hour bezel, sapphire, 100 m, steel bracelet. Lorier's vintage look, kind of a 50s/60s travel watch.
Do I need a GMT? No. I fly to Vegas once a year for a buddy's birthday and I can do the two-hour math in my head. But I like knowing it'd be easy.
Now the downer: 42 hours of reserve. Leave it in the hotel safe over a long weekend and you'll be resetting both time zones Monday. And 12 mm-plus is a little tall for a 39 mm watch. Not bad. Noticeable under a tight cuff.