Our trip to the 2nd Annual NY GTG (> 100 pics inside)

Thanks to Hannes for the translation. :gut:


Original thread (in german): GMTs ihrer ordnungsgemäßen Bestimmung zugeführt. (Modemburner > 100 Pics)

The GMT ist not only a beautiful but also a practical watch.
It has two timezones in one !

After arriving in a different timezone all you have to is to set the small hand hour by hour
to the local time and the red/green 24-hour-hand stays at your hometime.

Thats a nice attribute but it is useless if you always stay at home.




So to test the function all you need is an airplane.


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Lufthansa was so kind to leave us one for a small charge:
The fleets grandpa "Thüringen" (whis is one of Germanys states)


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Hannes was skeptical. Will there be a happy end... ?

Come on, Hannes. Easy :D


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Hm. The experiment should have started 20 minutes ago...


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Hmmmmm. Actually half an hour ago...


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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Actually 2 hours ago


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What happend?
The catering company LSG was moving its location at this day.

To make it short: After 2 hours waiting in the plane we left Frankfurt without catering.
On board you could choose between water, orange juice and red wine
added by a 4-cheese-pasta cooked to rags.



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Crossing the Rhein River.....


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....passing ice and snow......


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Are we in an different time zone now? Can we start the experiment?


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Come one. Let´s do it !


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The leg area had about 9°F


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Lufthansa - there's no better way to fly.


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Dirt and dust wherever you were looking, a non working Inseat System without sound - This flight was the worst we ever had.



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Where are we now? Rhein? Donau?


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Olympic Stadium in Munich?


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No. It´s the old Giants Stadium next to new one.
And the river is not the Rhein, it´s the Hudson.


We are in.....................


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..... yessssssssss! NEW YORK!!!!


Welcome !


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And here we go:
The 12-hour-hand shows local time - here 6:24 pm and the 24-hour-hand is set to CET: 0:24 am.
Ain´t that easy?

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Oh. There´s our Limo. If it is ok that we don´t have the LVs but the GMT LNs with us?

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I guess no. Instead the S-Class we had to take a manky old Lincoln - matching our plane - which had not only the mirror botched



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Towards Manhattan


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Holland Tunnel


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China Town


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Empire State Building


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Deserved Dinner at an Irish Pup (O´Neills)


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On Friday a first meeting with other watch nuts


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Ain't that BLING BLING??


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Scenes from an italian restaurant ;)


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Saturday: Sight-Seeing in Lower Manhattan


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Yes. Parking is expensive here !


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And you have to optimize the lots


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ESB is always watching you


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Manhattan got cleaner. But not everywhere


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Little Italy


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Even the hydrants are showing the italian colors


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the restaurants, too. Of cousre.


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And he´s having a look at them:


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A view back:


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A short detour to China Town

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And a few impressions...


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"Come on now"


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Ground Zero


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Hannes and his old buddy


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Trinity Church


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Wall Street


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Brooklyn Bridge


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The Caribbean Princess.
290m long, 36m wide, 19 floors for more than 3000 passengers. Build in 2004.


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Percy taking pictures


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Madison Avenue


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Central Park


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Big wedding on 5th Avenue


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Trump Tower


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A bride is looking for breakfast

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Famous brand No. 1


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Famous brand No. 2


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St. Patrick's


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Rockefeller Center


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And now we are here:


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Watch GetToGether


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2nd Annual NY GTG


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Milos & John


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JD, Milos & Idle Swede


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Watches from Bull


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"Hello. My name is Hannes and I'm interested in Rolex"


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"some more fingerfood for the Ladys ?"


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John & Boris


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Watches


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even more watches


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GMT GTG


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No, it´s not what it seems to be


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Erol & Boris


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Idle Swede & Larry K.


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Hannes, John & Milos


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And even in the US there are female watch nuts


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"Bull watches anyone?" ;)


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Times Square at night


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New York in the "Sex and the City" fever


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M&M as King Kong :D


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TOKIO HOTEL?????? 8o8o8o8o8o


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Everyday traffic


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Sunday:

Where are we now?


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If you have not seen NY from up here you haven´t seen NY


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Flat Iron Building


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Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island


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For memories


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Chrysler Building


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Ex Pan Am Building


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View to Times Square and Central Park


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and to the East River


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The Norwegian Dawn

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You want me to explain the GMT function again?


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Herald Square and Macy's


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Taxis, Taxis, Taxis


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Indy wherever you go


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The weather changes


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back to the airport


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What is Hannes lookig for?


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Aaaaah! The 747 "Bayern". This one is much nicer than the one that brought us here.

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Little more left


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"Stop!"


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And so our GMT test finally comes to an end


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Setting the time and back was very easy.
If you own a GMT you should try it once.


In this spirit......

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Special Thanks to Milos & John

8o :supercool: thanks for sharing

8o 8o

Thanks a lot for taking us with you :gut:

Great report Percy, I enjoyed the pics, thanks! :gut:

BTW "Bull" watch should actually be "Ball" watch!

looked like a good time was had by all!

:dr:

GREAT trip report...err....GMT field test. :D

I'm so glad you guys made it this year!

percy,

GREAT post. wish i could have met up w/ you and hannes after all these years one day :gut:

<* shark >>><

I would like to say that it was great meeting John, Hannes and Percy and everybody else who attended the gettogether. I wish my flight had not been delayed by 6 hours, but I thoroughly enjoyed the time that was left. Hope we can repeat this next year if not earlier at another location...

:jump: :jump: :jump:

Wooow guy's.... fantastic trip,... and that you are doing that... in the first place...

Thanks for sharing :verneig: :verneig: :verneig:




And what is James doing there with the ladies..... the old charm.... LOL

especially the last one

Well, I wanted to contribute some photos from my trip to the New York watchfan gettogether. Not necessarily watchrelated, but intended to be funny.

Right before landing on the rooftop of Connolly's: Just kiddin...
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Liberty is welcoming me:
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Graffiti art on the streets of NYC:
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The next president of the US: Oh I am hoping this is polically correct... but statistically it looks undisputably good for him:
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I was surprised that this lady is not causing a ton of accidents on the streets of Manhattan: I'd pay 17 bucks for her Bikini top...LOL
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John in the middle, and Mr. J. Dowling to the very left:
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Cheers Hannes:
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Jet set attending the event... just kiddin, I took that picture somewhere in another bar:
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my aircraft back to Chicago:
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back in o'Hare:
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WOW,
very interested story!