America?s largest luxury watch extravaganza, WatchTime New York, is returning for its fifth consecutive year at Midtown Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 25 – 26, 2019. This year?s event is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with 37 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is Jaquet Droz, who will be featuring an updated version of its Grande Seconde Dual Time.

Accompanying the surprise release of the Grande Seconde Monopusher Chronograph at the Swatch Group’s Time to Move event this year was the new-look Grande Seconde Dual Time collection, which received a brand new dial design in four total variations all sized at 43 mm by 13.13 mm. For this aesthetic update, Jaquet Droz is building on the previous generation’s movement as well as the same figure-eight dial layout that the Grande Seconde is known for. What’s new here is the placement of an azimuthal globe projection (a view of the Earth from the North Pole) in the bottom half of the dial. The globe presentation is executed nicely with the continents surrounded by a mirror-polished ocean in either black or anthracite. Additionally, the 24-hour home time display is split into two distinct 12-hour segments: white for daytime and black for night, making the reading of the home time more intuitive. The local time, on the top half of the Grande Seconde dial, is regulated by jumping an hour, which makes it quicker to set the time on arrival at the ...