Final Orbit

Greubel Forsey has unveiled what it says will be the third and final edition of its GMT Earth timepiece, which was first presented some 10 years ago and features a rotating three-dimensional representation of this planet as the most salient feature on its dial. Now with its asymmetrical case in titanium (the side bulge is there to accommodate the globe), this 11-piece limited edition follows a similar format to its predecessors, with its large but off-centre hours and minutes display (and tiny adjoining seconds subdial), a GMT subdial to its left, a retrograde power-reserve indicator at roughly 3 o’clock, an angled 24-second tourbillon at around 5 and the aforesaid miniaturised planet at 7. Less a watch as we know it than a philosophical discourse on time itself, this remarkable object is no less mesmerising today than it was when it was unveiled way back in 2011.