Junkers Worldtime – disappoints

As I like luminous watches and also have a fascination for Worldtimer features this Junkers model looked of interest. This is the very new Junkers 6892-5 GMT Worldtimer Chronograph, which manages to have that Classic look about it, but perhaps a little more modern than many in the Junkers range. It also seems to promise some sort of travel practicality that might be useful to me as I still travel quite a bit these days. This particular model unfortunately is not mechanical but does feature the highly accurate Swiss ETA G10-962, 4 jewel Quartz movement, which I can more or less set and forget.

Junkers 6892-5 Worldtimer, Date Chronograph. GMT sub-dial with Time Zones index.

The satin finished Stainless Steel case is well sized at 42 mm diameter (45 mm including crown) x 12 mm height, with a cream dial and a decent Water Resistance of 10 ATM or 100 m and comes across as a practical dress watch in function and looks.
However I do have to question the rather grand “Wordtimer” sobriquet, as the watch basically shows a time zone index (time zones as + 1, + 2 etc.) inscribed on the GMT sub-dial. Incidentally this information is duplicated on the watch back, so other than a piece of time zone data, it has no mechanical function whatsoever. So unless I'm missing something there is actually no Worldtime “function” as such at all, which is rather disappointing. Unlike many other Worldtimers there isn't a complication feature for example, to move the hands instantly to another time zone using a pusher. Indeed you would be forgiven for making the mistake that the “Red” colored upper right pusher had some special function, but it doesn't – apart from the usual start/stop chronograph function and a hands reset feature.
The Chronograph function is quite decent to 60 minutes, split time and so on, and is started and stopped by the top “Red” colored pusher, though why this is colored Red I have absolutely no idea. . . . . .
So overall whilst a nice Date and Chronograph watch it is not to my mind a proper World Timer.

Junkers with alternative deployment strap – Note RED pusher?

The next feature that's highlighted in the blurb is the luminous aspect of the cream colored dial face. Indeed it advertises two forms of luminous ability. Firstly the broad luminous and elegantly shaped Hour and Minute hands are SuperLuminova coated and secondly the entire dial surface is also coated in Superluminova, which according to the advertising should give this model outstanding readability in total darkness. Note the numerals/indices are made of contrasting black Anthracite. Bekijk meer nep rolex en harry winston replica