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FREDERIQUE CONSTANT
WORLDTIMER
MANUFACTURE
THIS SWISS MANUFACTURER, which emphasizes an impressive price-to-value ratio, expands its Worldtimer
Manufacture range with a new brown-dial edition cased in 42mm rose-gold plated steel. The newest watch
for globe trekkers maintains a traditional world time layout that features city names on the outer edge of a
dial with a global map in its center.
Since its debut about five years ago the Frederique Constant Worldtimer Manufacture, with in-house
automatic caliber FC-718, has offered a moderately priced true world time watch. Even with its reasonable
price tag the watch offers one feature not seen in most world time models: single-crown activation. Rather
than relying on one or more secondary correctors or pushers, the world time function here is completely
controlled by the crown.
The crown has three positions. The first lets the user manually wind the watch by turning the crown
upwards; the second allows the user to set the date and city by turning the crown upwards and downwards,
respectively; the third position allows the user to set the time by turning the crown downwards.
On the dial you’ll find two discs, one displaying 24-hour day-night indication and a second one listing
twenty-four cities. The wearer sets the home time by rotating the crown counterclockwise. This moves the
city or time zone ring, and when it’s set, the wearer can look to any other time zone on the ring and see the
time there instantly. The brown dial color here joins existing blue and silver editions with steel and gold-
plated case options. Price: $4,195
PATEK PHILIPPE
AQUANAUT TRAVEL TIME
REF. 5650
PATEK PHILIPPE HAS RECONFIGURED the balance spring on this new Advanced
Research’s watch just enough to increase its mean rate from -3 to +2 seconds per
day to an incredible -1 to +2, effectively matching the rate accuracy of a Patek
Philippe movement with a tourbillon. Find out more within our cover story inside
this issue starting on page 60.
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