How to Set a GMT Watch - Rolex Explorer 2 | SwissWatchExpo [Watch How To]

One of the questions we get asked most often is "How do I set a GMT Watch?"

At SwissWatchExpo, we offer product advice and education, and help our clients learn how to interact with their watch. Our watch expert Creed will show you how to set and read the GMT function -- as demonstrated on the iconic Rolex Explorer II ref 216570.

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Here at SwissWatchExpo, we do a couple of different things for our customers. The one thing that we want to know more about for all of our customers is how you interact with your watch. Oftentimes, you give us a call and ask us how do we set the GMT function on any watch.

I’ve picked the Rolex explorer because this is the most historical piece, and as you can see I picked the Rolex book with the original Rolex Explorer and the orange hour hand. Now I've also picked the same similar modern version from our case. This is the Rolex Explorer II, 42 millimeter.

Now, what do we want to do with this watch today? We want to set the time. So, one of the things that I always want folks to see is that this crown screws in and down against the watch to keep it water-resistant. In order to set the time, wind the watch, or any other function, simply unscrew the crown towards you this way towards the six, that unscrews that crown. You will know that it's in the winding position because when you push on this crown, it's got a little bit of a springiness, and if you notice there's a little just the slightest amount of springiness on that. That’s the winding position. In order to do the winding properly, you simply turn that towards the 12. Some people elect to turn it like this, I elect to run the crown just along my finger. There's a good callus there from over the years of winding watches. You can see it looks like a train dragged down my finger. It's faster, it's easier.

When you wind this watch fully you want to turn that crown towards the 12, a good solid 55 to 60 times on this watch, and pretty much on any watch, to get it fully wound from a dead stop. That’s because most people when they turn this crown, it doesn't go around one full revolution, it only goes around probably half to three-quarters of a turn. Therefore you're only actually turning this crown about 30 times. You cannot overwind an automatic watch. This is not a manual wind watch. So a manual wind watch does not have a clutch, it can be overwhelmed and it can break the spring. This is not one of those watches.

Now one of the other things that you should notice, is the orange hand is the GMT hand, that’s the second hour hand. So you've got your primary hour hand and your secondary hour hand. Primary, secondary.

The orange hand only goes around this bezel one time per day - 24 hours in a day, orange hand around the bezel one time per day. This is important because when you set the time for your secondary time zone, you’re observing the outside of the bezel, not what's on the inside of the watch. So when you want to set that second time zone, you have to think to yourself, “what time is it in the time zone in which I want to be?”

Well, let’s assume for a second that we want to set a daily time zone. Well let’s say it's 12 o'clock in California but in your time zone it's going to be 3 o’clock. Well, that's 1500 hours, because 12, 13, 14, 15. Okay, and that might be confusing for a lot of people because 12 hours is noon, 3 o'clock local time is here, why? Because we're setting the small hand to the local time which goes around twice per day. we're setting the secondary hand to the other time zone we want to monitor, one time per day. Why? Because if you’re doing this for foreign countries, not in the USA; or if you're in another country and you're wanting to monitor the USA's time zone, you want to make sure that you know whether it's day or night.

On this side of the dial, you’re talking about morning to noon, noon to midnight, noon to evening, light to dark, dark to light. That may make sense to some people, some people have to learn it a little bit more. It's not the easiest concept to learn until you actually start using it.

So here's what we're gonna do, let's go ahead, let's move this - I want to move this orange hand around the dial because I want you to observe exactly what happens when we go to set the GMT time.

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