Five Border-Pushing Travel Watches for the World Tourist

The Rolex GMT-Master made its debut in the 1950s. While it wasn't the first travel-focused watch, it definitely set the standard and cemented the connection between timepieces and globetrotting. It showed two time zones at once, didn't require any mechanical resetting, and was extremely easy to read. But things have come a long way since the '50s, so while the GMT is classic, there's a new group of travel watches pushing the genre even farther. Here are five top choices for your Memorial Day weekend getaway (even if it's just to that bar down the block).

The Senator Cosmopolite is a dressed-up travel watch that can display both your home time and local time in any of 37 time zones. I bet you can't even name all 37 time zones. City codes pop up in the daylight savings time and standard time windows around 8 o'clock, with the special half-hour and quarter-hour zones shown in blue and red. Setting is easy: You just rotate the crown by the windows. And unlike many watches in the genre, the Senator Cosmopolite can go forward and backward without harming the mechanism. $43,500 (red gold) $45,300 (white gold)