About this watch

Reference 126710BLNR on the Oyster bracelet: the “Batman”, the same watch as the Batgirl with a different bracelet and, for no very good reason, a different name. What a GMT-Master II actually does is worth spelling out, because a lot of owners never set one up properly. The hour hand jumps in one-hour steps on its own, independently of the minutes, so when you land you move it to local time and the watch never stops running. The arrow-tipped hand carries on circling once every 24 hours and reads home time off the bezel. Rotate the bezel and you have a third zone. It was built for airline crews and it still suits anyone who has to think in two places at once. The Oyster bracelet is the harder-edged choice. Three broad flat links, sitting flatter than a Jubilee, and against a black and blue bezel it keeps the watch firmly in sports territory instead of letting it drift towards dress. Calibre 3285, self-winding, approximately 70 hours of power reserve, certified to minus two and plus two seconds a day after casing. Forty millimetres of Oystersteel, bidirectional 24-hour bezel with the two-colour Cerachrom insert, waterproof to 100 metres, Oysterlock safety clasp with the 5 mm Easylin…