The new 1919 Globetimer UTC timepiece from Porsche Design ensures you always know the time, no matter where your travels take you.
The name Porsche immediately evokes mental images of fast, perfectly constructed sports cars and famous racetracks around the globe. Now, Porsche Design gives perfect shape to these ideas with its newest timepiece, the 1919 Globetimer UTC, which embodies a technologically innovative and aesthetically perfect combination of motorsport and timekeeping across.
Control Time
The new world-time wristwatch from Porsche Design sparks enthusiasm with a winning combination of radically simplified functionality and optimized legibility of the displays. No matter where in the world your travels take you, the simple push of a button resets the twelve-hour hand to show local time.
A day/night disc of the 1919 Globetimer UTC serves as an a.m./p.m. indicator, helping the wearer set the time for the correct half of the day in the new time zone. The date, linked to the local time, automatically shifts forward or backward when necessary. The minute and home time displays remain unaffected by the reset.
To assure this accurate time change occurs at midnight and not at noon, the time needs to be set correctly just once. A circular window on the left-hand side of the dial facilitates this task: a white dot appears here during the daytime hours, but the aperture remains black at night. Porsche Design has also taken into account the reference time, for which a second and clearly distinguishable hour hand, which turns once every twenty-four hours, and which has a distinctive luminous tip.
Refined Design for World Travellers
Nothing has been left to chance with the operation of the 1919 Globetimer UTC. The pushers, each with a precisely defined pressure point, dispatch the switching operations with speed and precision, designed and built with the chronographic competence amassed by Porsche since 1972. The well-conceived push-button control ensures intuitive operation, even while seated behind the wheel of a car or submerged in water up to a depth of 10 bars. There is no need to unscrew the crown or sense its first detent position for independent adjustment of the local-time hour hand, thus eliminating a potential source of human error.
Perfect legibility is another important feature. To intuitively display the time from any viewing angle, the dial’s radius has been made as large as possible, while the titanium case was designed to be uncommonly slim. Well-balanced styling imbues this watch with a unique lightness, further enhanced by the handsomely shaped wristband. Color contrasts, distinctive hands, indices, and numerals combine with the generous use of nonradioactive Super-LumiNova luminous material to minimize the chance of misreading, even in conditions characterized by poor visibility. In addition, a sevenfold antireflective coating and an extra hard-coated treatment protect the sapphire crystal.
The 1919 Globetimer UTC is part of the exclusive 1919 watch collection and is available as of September 2019.
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