Borrowed Time: Reviewing the Arnold & Son Globetrotter

Arnold & Son - the innovative manufacture named for British watchmaker John Arnold and now, at least in the arena of high-end traditional horology, the crown jewel of Japan's Citizen Watch group - has accomplished it with the Globetrotter, a visually arresting world-time watch released in 2018 The Globetrotter is something of a departure aesthetically for Arnold & Son, whose watches in the past few years have been known for more sober, technical looks, with lots of dial-side, exposed tech elements - in essence, like something you might have seen on one of John Arnold's workbenches in the 1770s Push the crown into its second position to set the local time by moving the hour hand in one-hour jumps, clockwise or counterclockwise, then push the crown back into its first position, snug against the case.

When you arrive in another time zone, simply pull the crown back out to position 2 and move the hour hand in either direction, along the 12-hour outer scale, to set the new local time while the home time, as indicated on the globe, remains stationary If you're in one of the few time zones that don't line up on the hour, you can simply set the minute hand independently, in position 3, to line up with the local time hour hand Of course, you can also read the time in other time zones simultaneously simply by scanning where the hemisphere lines up with the 24-hour disk.

One more aspect of the Arnold & Son Globetrotter that's likely to widen eyes is its price: $16,995, an eminently reasonable ask for a timepiece with a user-friendly and visually stunning world-time complication as well as high level of haute horlogerie engineering and finishing. . Source