Patek Philippe 240 HU, Руководство пользователя

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WORLD TIME
WATCHES
Among modern nomads and connoisseurs of
superb mechanical timepieces, Patek Philippe’s
World Time watches enjoy cult status. They are
endowed with a unique mechanism that displays
the time not only at the owner’s present location
but also in all other of our planet’s 24 time zones.
Despite the complexity of their self-winding
caliber 240 HU movement, they are models of user-
friendliness. The hour and minute hands display
local time in the middle of the dial. Surrounding
it are two rings, one with the names of 24 cities
that stand for the 24 time zones, the other with a
24-hour scale featuring a darker part with a moon
symbol for the nocturnal hours and a brighter one
with a sun symbol for the daytime hours.
Local time is the time in the zone represented by
the city at the very top of the dial in the 12 o’clock
position. The time in any other zone is displayed
by the 24-hour scale opposite the name of the
respective city. But your World Time watch plays
out its greatest strength when one travels from one
time zone to another by eliminating the need to
calculate time differences or to stop the watch and
move the hands in either direction. All it takes is a
few actuations of the pusher at 10 o’clock. When
the city that stands for the destination time zone
is at the top of the dial, the setting is complete.