The Best GMT and Travel Watches of Watches and Wonders 2025

We, at MONOCHROME, have lengthy been sturdy advocates of the GMT, Worldtimer and Twin-Time problems. Why? Just because when rightfully applied, these extra options make a number of the most sensible watches attainable – and we’re speaking real-life practicality right here, not an equation of time that nobody has ever actually understood (sorry, I needed to say it…) And I can let you know that we had been joyful to see that manufacturers throughout Watches and Wonders 2025 and the Geneva Watch Week got here totally loaded, with an array of GMT and Journey watches. Listed below are a number of the greatest we’ve seen – with one essential exclusion, the Bovet Récital 30 (a fully sensible watch) that we’ll characteristic in one other choice. 

Armin Strom Twin Time GMT Resonance Manufacture Metal

Let’s begin with essentially the most complicated watch on the listing (thanks solely to the alphabetical order…), which is far more than simply its dual-time complication. This mannequin is the second within the line-up, following the 2024 white gold Twin Time GMT Resonance. And now, its compact 39mm x 9mm case – all of the extra spectacular contemplating all the things it packs – is made from chrome steel and paired with a traditional black dial. What this watch is all about is the usage of two balances related by a spring and utilizing the phenomenon of resonance – a speciality of the model. And right here, regardless of the small-ish case, Armin Strom has managed to get two totally impartial time shows, which might point out separate hour, minutes and day/evening place, even with half or quarter offsets. After which there’s the ending, the complexity, the appears to be like… And the value of CHF 95,000.

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Doxa SUB 250T GMT

Lastly… this might be the right phrase to explain the arrival of the Doxa SUB 250T GMT. Certainly, Doxa has lastly launched a GMT dive look ahead to the very first time because the restricted version 750T GMT means again in 2006, after the followers requested such a mannequin for years. And one of the best factor is that the watch is available in a extra user-friendly dimension than that 45mm behemoth of 2006. Meet the compact 40mm x 10.8mm journey model of the emblematic Doxa cushion-shaped case. Accessible in no fewer than 9 colors, together with all of the model’s classics and a brand new Sharkhunter gradient dial with classic impact lume, this SUB 250T GMT retains the design and options of a dive watch – together with the no-deco bezel – however provides a GMT operate on the dial, with an inside 24-hour scale a big however unintrusive openworked 24-hour hand. The one draw back, one way or the other defined by the accessible worth, is the truth that that is an workplace/caller GMT watch, and never a correct journey GMT mannequin.

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Nomos Membership Sport Neomatik Worldtimer

With the Membership Sport Neomatik Worldtimer, Nomos stroke laborious. First, the model has revamped its world-time module in a watch that’s far more versatile, strong and enjoyable than the quite conventional Zurich Weltzeit. The worldtimer operate is now housed in a sporty, pretty compact – 40mm x 9.9mm – metal case with 100m water-resistance. Second, it does look recent and sensible, with the silver mannequin being a favorite amongst our staff – there are additionally 6 restricted editions in brilliant colors, if that’s your factor. Third, it’s a sensible watch with a pusher to shortly regulate the native hour hand, making it sensible when travelling. Lastly, the world-time module is now positioned on high of the skinny computerized Neomatik base calibre, taking part within the total slenderness of this Membership Sport Neomatik Worldtimer. What else…? All of it comes at a good worth of EUR 3,940, making it among the finest worth propositions of the honest.

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Parmigiani Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante Verzasca Inexperienced

First launched in 2022 with a blue dial, the Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante is a watch that completely summarises the model’s present imaginative and prescient… An authentic and stylish tackle the dual-time watch, it blends traditional elegant-sports options with a textured bezel and an built-in bracelet, and in traditional PF style, provides a contact of refined discretion on its complication. The pusher at 8 o’clock permits for adjusting the second time zone, however there’s one other pusher, this time within the crown. And this one means that you can conceal the extra 24-hour hand when it’s not wanted. This 12 months, a brand new Verzasca Inexperienced model joins the gathering, with a fragile and delicate color for the finely guilloché dial – PF has been a fantastic advocate of colors just lately, with a few of them actually distinctive and interesting.

Patek Philippe Calatrava Pilot Journey Time 5524G Ivory

At first sight, this appears to be simply an evolution of a long-existing watch. Certain, the Calatrava Pilot Journey Time 5524G first got here in the marketplace in 2015, and never with out a sure dosage of controversy. Saying that it was nicely accepted at first can be laborious, however after 10 years of existence, this watch has discovered its viewers… till Patek determined earlier this 12 months to take away it from the gathering. Effectively, that was simply short-term, as if the white gold and blue dial version is just not obtainable anymore, it’s been changed by this different white gold model, with an ivory white lacquered dial. And the way a dial color can change a watch. It’s recent and brilliant, a lot lighter visually and paired with its khaki inexperienced composite strap, it actually appears to be like good – if you will get previous the bizarre facet pushers. What stays is a watch with nice travelling capacities, due to pushers that permit altering ahead and backward the native time. You may have an evening/day indicator for each places and a date, making it a extremely user-friendly mannequin altogether.

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Ressence Sort 7 GMT

Calling this watch a GMT is likely to be a little bit of a stretch, I admit. It’s extra of a dual-time watch the place adjusting the second time zone is a bit complicated, however there was no alternative to get a crown or pushers for that. It wouldn’t be a Ressence in spite of everything. What Ressence has carried out with its Sort 7 is to ship its imaginative and prescient of a sporty, daily-oriented mannequin worn on a metallic bracelet. Design-wise, it’s each novel and acquainted, mixing the screen-like domed show of different oil-filled fashions with a brand new, extra angular design and an exterior bezel – right here in ceramic on this blue version. The consolation of the titanium case and bracelet is plain, the visible attraction unmistakable, and the traveller’s performance debatable… However in the long run, is it what actually issues? We’ll quickly come again on this watch with an in-depth video, because it deserves extra consideration.

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Rolex GMT-Grasp II Inexperienced Ceramic Dial 126729VTNR

The just about barbarian reference quantity – 126729VTRN – sums it up virtually fully. What we’re taking a look at here’s a white gold model of the lefty model of the GMT-Grasp II, a.okay.a the Sprite. So, sure, it’s now made from strong 18k white gold but it surely retains the duo-tone ceramic bezel of the metal mannequin, with black for nighttime and inexperienced for daytime. What’s actually new right here, and a primary for Rolex, is the usage of Cerachrom for the dial, thus creating an ideal match between the bezel’s insert and the dial. The inexperienced GMT hand has been changed by a silvered one for legibility and whereas the traveller’s capacities of this watch are to not be demonstrated anymore, the design remains to be as polarising because it will get at Rolex. I as soon as once more strapped it upside-down throughout our assembly at Watches and Wonders, exhibiting that it truly is puzzling. Some find it irresistible, although.

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Tudor Black Bay Professional GMT Polar White

This one is a little more private, as I’m an absolute fan of the Rolex Explorer II with polar white dial – as you possibly can see on this article. When Tudor launched its Black Bay Professional GMT watch in 2022, the intentions had been clear: providing a extra accessible various to the Explorer II. Identical idea, similar mounted bezel, similar GMT operate, similar robustness (much more truly) and a design impressed by classic 1655 references. There have been a number of drawbacks to report, principally concerning the thickness of the case (14.6mm), whereas the 39mm was merely nice. Now, nothing has been solved on this facet, however there’s this new “polar” version, with a white opaline dial. And it appears to be like incredible (I’m nothing however goal right here… not). Private preferences apart, the white dial with black outlined palms and markers, and that brilliant yellow GMT hand, all look clear, purposeful and precisely how an Explorer-like watch ought to. And there’s no faux-vintage lume anymore, however crisp white inserts that look even higher. The remaining is similar as earlier than, for higher or worse.

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