Introducing the Greubel Forsey GMT Balancier Convexe

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Today Greubel Forsey (GF) announces its newest GMT watch and guys, this one’s a doozy. It has the most nous of all the previous versions in the series, in terms of dial layout but doesn’t dampen one bit the theatrical kinetic displays that the brand has developed a reputation for. Gone are the familiar hour and minute hands whether on a subdial off to the side as in the GMT Quadruple Toubillon or centrally mounted on a flying bridge like in the GMT Sport. Instead, two triangles of differing sizes indicate the most basic local time information, tracing an orbital path around the iconic Terrestrial globe, that has now become the center of attention and focus on the dial. The globe has been situated within time telling concave rings (local and day/night UTC) that incline towards the center in a construction style that the brand is calling an “amphitheater”.