People who love watches love pigeonholing them. One for diving, one for flying, one for racing your classic car around the track. In the lore of horology, these niche use cases have exceptionally clear cut and rigid criteria which, more often than not, bear no resemblance to reality.
One genre of watch that is a little more opaque is the travel watch. The people who are responsible for naming watches and writing the associated press release seem to have decided that the only real constant is to have a watch with more than one time zone.
Objectively this makes sense. After all, there are as many ways to travel as there are places to travel to. One man’s overland trek in a beat-up Land Cruiser is another woman’s transcontinental Gulfstream jaunt. Given such diversity, a one-watch-fits-all approach is clearly not going to cut it. Now it might be because I haven’t so much as caught a whiff of avgas in the last 24 months, but I’ve spent an unreasonably large amount of time pondering
