The best worldtimer watches and their view of earth.

These are the only brands that make a northern polar projection worldtimer watch.

The world timer is synonymous with world travel and the northern projection map is most compatible with navigation and exploration, so it's only right the two should be together.

1943 'Air Map of the World'

Let's start with the

F.P. Journe

Octa UTC

with a map like the Gleason's, showing land south of the meridian including Australia. Without the city names listed, you'll need to know a bit of geography.

The second watch here is the

Jaquet Droz

Grande Seconde Dual Time

Australia looks significantly smaller here and seems to most resemble this map found in Japan said to be 1,000 years old, with lands beyond the southern ice wall.

Next we'll look at the

Montblanc

Star Legacy Orbis Terrarum

which doesn't include parts of the map south of the equator but instead uses half of the Gott Projection. There are no maps that are 100% accurate, but The Gott Projection is the most precise.

Here we have the

Jaeger-LeCoultre

Geophysic Universal Time

The Gott Projection and

The

Vacheron Constantin

Traditionnelle World Time

goes above and beyond in some ways, showing 37 timezones instead of 24.

The

Magellan

1521 World Time

The Ship Victoria’s Journey, a map by Heinrich Scherer, c. 1700

Omega

Aqua Terra Worldtimer

Ulysse Nardin