TUTORIAL - How to set a GMT watch

In today's video we cover how to set the GMT bezel and how to read a GMT on the Grand Seiko Spring Drive SBGE201 for up to 3 time zones. First we show you how to set your home time, next we set the local time and finally we set the GMT bezel for our 3rd time zone.
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[@bonafidesmooth]

Finally someone explains it properly - thank you good sir

[@hblegal8309]

Agree!

[@Wytnucls]

For a pilot, the GMT hand is set on UTC always. Home time is set on the main hands and the destination time on the outer bezel (with the UTC time zone difference set at 12 o'clock on the outer bezel). After arrival, local time can then be set on the main hour hand until the next departure, unless home time is preferred .

[@Rd-bi7vr]

Good explanation

[@mainlymusicman]

@@Rd-bi7vr not really

[@duckbizniz663]

Thank you for presenting a simple explanation on how to use a GMT or Universal watch. It was the first time I actually understood how to set up a GMT watch for 3 time zones.

[@likhan.ghosh.]

Finally someone able to explain it simply and properly!

[@tomroth16]

Thank you!! I watched 4 other videos and none made sense. Your's clicked and I understand it now.

[@MinuteMon]

Glad it helped!

[@MrCrazyCub]

This has been the best, most concise explanation that finally cleared it up for me! Thank you!!!

[@hblegal8309]

Very well done! After watching others try to explain how to do it,.....you nailed it! Thank you.

[@richardbaptist5080]

Thanks for the explanation! The use of the bezel always tripped me up. More of these instructional videos please. thanks!

[@MinuteMon]

Thanks for watching and glad we could make it easy to understand!

[@TS20ification]

very cool and super simple. I always wondered how that worked. Makes sense that the home time hand advances on a 24 hour cycle.

[@1013VS]

such a clear easy explaination.

[@startupbusinesscoaching]

This is so well done. Thanks and subscribed!

[@rawcircoking]

thank you for using real time reference.

[@siddhunkarthik]

Nice illustration and explanation on showing the usage of bezel and GMT time zone setting.

[@jasondunn8313]

Easy and straightforward. Thanks!

[@AXHEJAZ]

Super helpful video thank you

[@mattwkendall]

Thank you! Excellent explanation!

[@Travelling4You]

Well explained. Thanks

[@dougkrogh2766]

Just purchased this watch. Easy to setup. Thank you for this

[@joellumanglas6497]

Well explained i love your tutorial ❤️

[@rainydayswithdogs]

Very clear explanation. Thanks.

[@sammyb.9682]

Thanks, for that I'm subscribing to learn new things.

[@MinuteMon]

Glad you found it useful!

[@SoCalWatchReviews]

Great tutorial 👏

[@dariussheik9563]

What if the difference of the second time zone is 4:30 hours? Thanks

[@citizent6999]

In a timezone that is offset 30 mins to other timezones (eg Adelaide, Tehran or Indian standard times) how do we adjust the GMT hand in 30 min increments?

[@MinuteMon]

Unfortunately this watch and many GMT watches only can differentiate in 1 hour increment time zones. There are a few worldtimer watches that can show the 30min increments though

[@nerychristian]

The red hand will be between hours

[@kvr9951]

can you show me how to track 1/2 time-zones as i travel often from Europe to India and am unable to set up the 1/2 time zone.. for example its 13.00 CET in Europe and India is 16.30 CET

[@d1xenotime]

Great video. Thank you for explaining!

[@snoepox1257]

Thanks!

[@sagar_neer]

How to set for GMT +5.5,-2, +1.5 simultaneously?

[@Alexander-qs1bq]

Isn’t it better to set the GMT hand to the UTC and then turn the Bazel to the +/- hour difference to the new location?

[@NatiiixLP]

I guess it depends. As someone who deals with UTC timestamps all day every day, I would do that. However, for most people, who will never need to know what the UTC time is, it makes no sense to throw away one time zone and gain effectively nothing. Very few people remember the GMT offsets of any other time zone than the one they live in.

[@kychoi2653]

@@NatiiixLP It is not hard to use UTC timestamps, just it is need to remember Europe UTC:+1, New York UTC:-5, Tokyo UTC:+9 and that of where you live now, then other area has added 1 or 2 or subtracted 1 or 2. It is not difficult using UTC system.

[@truenorthmuskoka9077]

I always thought the local time was set with the main hands and second time using the GMT hand.

[@jttaylor7242]

thank you

[@lovesautodetail]

So in theory we could use 24 hour or for the second one we could just use the bezel and have a 12 hour reading.?

[@AdelBelmahi]

Thank you very much from Morocco

[@MinuteMon]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@AdelBelmahi]

You really rock! Wish you all the success!keep safe and RIP dear George!

[@happy_hedgehog]

really useful

[@MinuteMon]

Glad you found it so!

[@kychoi2653]

Why do you use true GMT watch as a dual time +1 watch ? . just set the GMT hand indicate the UTC:+0 (GMT time) when bezel was not rotated and use bezel rotating functions. For Tokyo rotate the bezel so that the number on the bezel 9(Tokyo is UTC:+9) be at the position of 12 O'clock position and read the hour indicated by the GMT hand.

[@MinuteMon]

Because most people when they travel know the time of their destination by the local hour not by the UTC time code. You could also do it your method, but for simplicity, local time will be easier to understand

[@nickgee7291]

ohhhh i get it nowwwwwwww

[@oenrob98000]

What happens if the difference between time zones involves half an hour?

[@nerychristian]

Then just move it slightly forward with the minute hand

[@akhduke]

A tutorial for this as well would add value. I’ve seen most of if the content only explaining the hour time difference, no one’s doing the half hour. Anyways thank for the video

[@dastanroy3784]

Can we set different minutes for different time zones ?

[@MinuteMon]

Not on this example, but there are some GMT or Worldtimer watches that can track 30 mins time differences

[@nerychristian]

You can use the bezel. Move it half a click to set it half hour ahead or behind.

[@adamknight7558]

India.... 3 and a HALF hours ahead of me... tricky to do

[@MinuteMon]

True! Too bad most GMTs only count full hours

[@Rd-bi7vr]

The Rolex GMT 2 cannot read 3 time zones contrary to beliefs for a simple reason it does not have inner 24 hour scale....Seiko does so three time zone is possible.

[@keefw361]

Identical to the Seiko SSK that cost $500

[@pukarshrestha1903]

Casio seems more userfriendly

[@CaptainAhab-im3kd]

I disagree with your assigning the GMT hand to "home" time. The whole reason they call it a GMT is that you should be setting the GMT hand to GMT time, not home time. That way each time zone's "GMT Shift" information is set with the setting of the Bezel shift starting from the from the 12 o'clock am position which is midnight GMT time. You set the normal hands as your local time in the local time zone you are in, then you set the bezel to correspond to the time zone used in your destination city, which more often than not is going to be the time zone where you live when you are not out traveling. Done this way, bi-colored GMT watch Bezels give you a qualitative assignment of daytime or night time at your destination. If you do it your way, then when you are back home at your house, both the local time and the GMT hand are going to be indicating the same time, which now redundant, rendering the GMT hand useless.

[@shawshank_1317]

What he fails to explain is unfortunately we cannot set another time zone which is +/- 30 minutes as both the inner and outher bezel displays hours not minutes... So we gotta add or subtract that mentally...

[@consumerthis3169]

They sell Seikos at Kohl’s. Lol , grand or not I wouldn’t pay that price for a seiko

[@MinuteMon]

Some Costco’s sell Omegas, but that doesn’t take away the fact that Omega watches are awesome. The Seikos in big department stores vs premiere watch retailers are totally different watches and build. All I can say is you’re only missing out!

[@michaelferreira2052]

Grand seiko's are a huge difference that a regular seiko. The quality and movement are world class.

[@briansmith8390]

Youre obviously quite a watch collector there fella....you must own a Rolex.

[@Toni-pt6md]

Quality is a rare gem brother 😊😊