We?re all just beginning to emerge from an extended and seemingly interminable period of locked-down isolation. We?ve been sheltered in our homes and, for those of us still reporting on the global watch industry, keeping in touch with our peers and colleagues, across the U.S. and around the world, remotely ? and perhaps more often than before. One might think that a world-time watch ? one that allows you to discern the time in another of the world?s 24 major time zones with a simple twist of the city-ring bezel ? would be the ideal timepiece for such an extended work-from-home scenario. And, in the absence of a watch that actually can test you for coronavirus, one would be right. Fortunately, I had such a watch for an extended review period: the Ball Engineer Master II Diver Worldtime.
The watch’s multilevel bezel combines a world-time indicator and diving scale.

The watch?s steel case clocks in at wrist-friendly 42 mm in diameter, with brushed finished surfaces and gently curving lugs. The fluted bezel does double duty with both a dive scale and the aforementioned 24 city indications. It turns unidirectionally (counterclockwise) with a scantly audible series of clicks ? good for inconspicuously checking the time in another part of the world while you endure yet another Zoom teleconference. The crown screws down securely into its double-shouldered crown guard. The stylish ?RR? in relief on the crown?s surface is a nod to the ?railroad? watches that earned t...