How to Set and Use a GMT Watch Like a Pro Mastering your dual-time companion: a practical guide inspired by the Seals Land // Sea GMT. The Seals Land // Sea GMT with Miyota 9075 automatic movement. For watch enthusiasts and frequent travelers alike, few complications are as useful—or as satisfying—as the GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) function. Whether you’re tracking home time while abroad or coordinating across time zones, learning to use and set a GMT correctly transforms your daily experience with your watch. In this guide, we’ll use the Seals Land // Sea GMT as our example—an automatic, true-GMT field watch built with purpose and precision. What Is a GMT Watch? A GMT watch tracks more than one time...
Intersect Austin 2025: Nodus' Microbrand Mecca Returns November 7—Don't Miss Seals Watch Co. It's a Friday evening in downtown Austin. The air hums with Texas anticipation as you step into 800 Congress Avenue. Tacos al pastor from a food truck waft through the crowd, cold beers flow freely, and 30+ independent watch brands unpack their latest creations. No velvet ropes. No six-figure sticker shock. Just pure, unfiltered horology—courtesy of Nodus' Intersect Watch Show. And this November 7-8, it's bigger, bolder, and primed to steal your heart (and wallet). What Is Intersect Watch Show? The Series That Changed Microbrands Forever Born in 2021 as a pandemic-era brewery meetup in Los Angeles—45 attendees, a handful of brands shipping watches—Intersect exploded into a...
Miyota 9075: The True GMT Movement That Democratized World Time It's 3 a.m. in Tokyo, but your wrist tells you it's noon in New York. You've just touched down after a red-eye from Zurich, and with a flick of the crown, the local hour hand snaps forward—date adjusting seamlessly—while your reference time ticks on uninterrupted. No fumbling with bezels, no "caller" compromises. This is the magic of the Miyota 9075, the Japanese automatic caliber that's quietly rewriting the rules for affordable travel watches. What Is the Miyota 9075—and Why Does It Matter in 2025? Launched in 2022 by Citizen's powerhouse movement arm, Miyota, the Caliber 9075 is a "traveler's GMT" (aka "true" or "flyer" GMT). Unlike cheaper "caller" GMTs—where you...
While browsing through the latest WatchTime magazine late the other evening I came across a Q&A with a fellow named Patrik Hoffman, current EVP of WatchBox. He was asked the following question, "What makes a watch collectible to you?" If it is regularly worn and appreciated by the collector. A timepiece that doesn't get wrist time is not worth collecting, as other people cannot appreciate and see it and as it won't fulfill the actual purpose of why it was created: to tell the time! Not enough importance can be placed on the fact, watches are tools and made for the purpose of tracking the time of the day and making this information readily available at a glance. It's with...
Having seen them around Instagram, read about their versatility and now handled them a few times up close the style of strap like Erika’s Originals deserves a spot in the arsenal. This was not always the case, an elastic type strap seems a bit odd, not for everyone, and at the time not for me. That’s changed a bit you see, a slew of parachute strap style bands dropped on my door step so to speak. If you’ve worn any of our Model C or Dark Seal straps and possibly our upcoming Velcro bands you’ll know we take pride in a well made watch strap. When our strap maker told us he has something to check out a simple, “why...
