It’s no secret that many watch aficionados are also avid travelers. And what could be more useful for globetrotters than a watch that lets them keep track of time everywhere in the world at once" Many world-time watches will cost you as much as several overseas vacations, but we found a handful, all with mechanical movements, that you can get for $5,000 or less.*
1. Ball Trainmaster Worldtime
Ball Trainmaster World Time
From Ball Watch, there’s the Ball Trainmaster Worldtime ($3,299 on both leather strap, pictured, or steel bracelet), which has a COSC-certified chronometer movement with automatic winding. Its stainless steel case is water-resistant to 50 meters and shock-resistant to 5,000 Gs. In addition to the primary world-timer functions (the city ring with 24 world cities and 24-hour ring), the watch’s dial has a day of-the-week display at 6 o’clock and 14 luminous micro-gas tubes ? a Ball Watch hallmark ? placed on the “12,” the hour indices, and the hour, minute and seconds hands, enabling easy reading of the current time in low lighting. 2. Frédérique Constant Worldtimer Manufacture
Frédérique Constant: Classic Worldtimer Manufacture
Frédérique Constant is well-known to many watch aficionados as a purveyor of affordably priced Swiss mechanical watches, many with in-house movements. Among them is the Frédérique Constant Manufacture Worldtimer ($4,195), which contains the brand’s in-house FC-718 automatic movemen...