Porsche Design has unveiled a new version of their very smart 1919 Globetimer UTC. The Globetimer, introduced in 2019, is a travel watch with a trick up its sleeve in that it uses pushers on the side of the case to jump the local time as the wearer moves across time zones. A jumping local hour hand is one of our favorite features in a travel watch – it?s just a far more elegant solution to resetting the local time than messing with a 24 hour hand, stopping the balance, and so forth. It?s a bonus that it comes on a watch with an interesting contemporary design, and pulls off a successful fake-out with pushers that don?t do what you think they?re going to do. Let?s take a look at the 1919 Globetimer UTC All Black.

The idea behind the 1919 Globetimer UTC is relatively straightforward:  create a travel watch that doesn?t cause the wearer to lose time in resetting it as they travel. Plenty of higher priced GMT watches have local jumping hour hands (think Rolex and Grand Seiko) but push button functionality is rarefied air for watches that you can conceivably think of as value oriented. The 1919 Globetimer improves on the functionality of something like a modern Rolex GMT Master II by eliminating the unfortunate step of having to unscrew the crown. A ?+? button on the side of the case advances the local time, and a ?-? button moves it back. There?s even a pointer date function on the watch to keep your calendar in sync, along with the requisite 24 hour hand to us...