Hornet

Clearly displaying its sophisticated nature with no less than six hands and pointers, radiating from the dial centre like the blades on a propeller and indicating all manner of useful information. The Hornet Wordtimer from Arnold & Son nonetheless manages to maintain the brand's trademark clarity and user-friendly handling – which means you don't need to be a qualified fighter pilot to operate its multiple functions! The beautifully rounded pink gold or steel case is immediately distinguished by its three crowns and pushpieces symmetrically arranged at 9 and 10 o'clock on one side and 2 and 3 o'clock at the other, thus immediately setting the pragmatic operational tone for this high-flying model. The dial plays on contrasting colours, clearly differentiated hands, alternating Arabic numerals and hour-markers, and a mixture of pointer-type and window displays, in order to distinguish between the various items of information provided. Bringing you the worldBecause schedules and planning are more important than ever in today's busy lifestyle, whether to meet professional demands or facilitate leisure pursuits, the double-disc date display and the month circle help keep track of this ever-useful data. Symbolising the global village, the sophisticated twin-time zone indication features two hands turning simultaneously, with the city of London in red, GMT time, among the other cities and time zones appearing on the GMT ring. Moreover, this function offers the unusual possibility of setting one of the twin time zones with the golden sun-tipped hand on half time-zones in parts of the world such as India. What's more,  since this golden hand is “sliding”, it can also display the mean solar time of any location according of its longitude. And finally, to keep the wearer in touch with a truly “universal” time beyond earthly time zones, the equation of time is shown on a triangular white segment. Doubtless destined to create quite a buzz in the lofty stratosphere of technical contemporary timepieces, the Hornet Worldtimer is a complex instrument that prides itself on functional simplicity, enabling quick and easy readings of just about everything its well-informed owner could wish to know from his watch.