Night Time Navigator: Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT II
It is the curse of the modern-day frequent traveler: how to keep track of not only one’s local time, but also the times back home and at the next destination. This week’s Watch to Watch, the Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT II, not only displays three time zones simultaneously but does so even in the darkest cockpits and cabins. Here’s what you need to know about it.
Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT II – bracelet – front
The watch’s stainless steel case is 42 mm in diameter and is topped off with a curved, bidirectional rotating sapphire bezel which features ? for the first time in this collection ? micro gas tubes for exceptional nighttime legibility. In all, the timepiece boasts 43 of these tubes, filled with light-emitting H3 gas whose energy is released when the H3 molecules strike the tubes’ internal surfaces. The result is continuous, long-lasting luminosity (up to 25 years without requiring a recharge from any outside light or energy source that is also up to 100 times brighter than other luminous substances used on watch dials, such as Super-LumiNova, which also is employed here for the inner 24-hour GMT scale. Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT – night – front
The different colors of the luminous gas tubes help to discern the three time zones readable on the dial and bezel of the Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT: yellow and orange tubes are used for the 12-hour scale; ice-blue Super-LumiNova Arabic numerals indicat...
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