Wait, how long have we been parked on this f@$#%ing tarmac?!?

Traveling can kill hours that you’ll never get back. Why not know exactly how many?
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Traveling today can kill hours of your life that you'll never get back. And what better way to spike your blood pressure constantly than by knowing exactly how much of your precious life is slipping through your fingers—right down to the second!

That's why they invented . Ever since some genius invented the , humans who traveled have had to with different “zones of time,” and that's meant walking around with the wrong time on your watch, or going to the trouble of figuring out the correct time in your new destination. It was, and still is, an unnecessary annoyance in today's civilized and sophisticated world.

Here are some of my past travel watches.

One of the things I hate about travel is not knowing the time where I am as well as the time back home. (How else can I call people in the middle of the and wake them up?)

No idea how to work it, finally sold it.

To combat that nagging problem, I bought a watch that ostensibly let me see different time-zones called the Men's SNJ007 Sportura Analog/Digital Alarm Chronograph by Seiko of . It was well-made, attractive and comfortable — there was just one problem with it. I couldn't figure the thing out. At. All.

A buyer on Amazon who liked the watch described the time-setting process — with a straight face, mind you — like this:

Switch time zones with ease (push button A to select world time mode, push button C to select new time zone using second hand to point to codes listed on watch bezel, hold button B down for three seconds to make selected time zone your new home time zone).

—Some lunatic on YouTube
This is a nice watch if you're rich.

Um, what the @#$!& are you talking about, dude? I'm both college educated and mechanically inclined, yet I used to spend a good 40 minutes on every flight trying to hack the Enigma code required to correctly show my current time zone as well as the one back home. More often than not, I just left the watch with the wrong time, in both zones.

Travel watches shouldn't be hard to use.

The incredible hassle of switching time-zones led me to seek out a dual time-zone travel watch that was easy to set — it's an ongoing quest, but here's what I've found (so far):

QUARTZ/BATTERY

AUTOMATIC/MANUAL

You can see the little gears move with this type of Automatic watch. Fun!

And here is a list of some super-pricy dual time-zone watches for any rich people in my audience.

So after all my searching, what travel watches do I wear now?

I bought this one, then bought the version with two sub-dials so I can tell what day it is!

In all, I've spent probably 100+ hours searching the Interwebs for travel watches, and I am still looking. If you have any suggestions, add them in the comments section.

UPDATE: I am no longer looking as I finally found the Kronaby Apex (S1426/1), it's my new current travel watch, and it's now the only watch I wear. Yes, it's that good. It syncs to my via Bluetooth, so I never even have to adjust it. The phone app always has the correct time in whatever zone I'm in, and there's a world clock feature that I can access by using the watch's plunger—easy-peasy!

UPDATE TO MY UPDATE: I found an even better travel watch, the Kronaby Apex (S3111/1) It has two sub-dials, one that displays the day of the week (vital), and one that displays the date. I found that I really needed to know what DAY it was when I woke up after a transatlantic flight.

If you want to buy my old Apex, email me.

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