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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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