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World
Timers
Here are some of iW’s favorite globally aware watches
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 IT’S
A SMALL WORLD. Never has this sentiment been more true than in today’s age of instant messages, PDAs, smart cell phones and Blackberries. Using these digital
conveniences, you do business with someone thousands of miles away as easily as with a neighbor.
Yes,
the shrinking world is a modern phenomenon hastened considerably by the rapid miniaturization and acceptance of these digital gadgets. But timepiece enthusiasts
point to 1884 as the year global distances became less a barrier to communication and commerce. That’s the year Sandford Fleming’s Universal Standard
Time divided the world into the time zones we rely on today. By creating twenty-four time zones, the stage was set for timepiece firms to place this new mandate
into a watch.
And Fleming Was Ready for It
Four years before his idea was accepted, Fleming gave it to a watchmaker in London, who then reportedly placed it into a watch, possibly the first world time model.
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MAY 2005
INTERNATIONAL WATCH
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