On a recent QF SYD-LAX, one of FA's had a watch with which she could change the time to SYD or LAX with the touch of a button (or so it seemed to me).

I'd love to have something like this, but I didn't ask her about it, and I couldn't find anything with a web search.

Anyone here know what it might have been?

Thanks?

The Citizen Eco-Drive Skyhawk Flight Chronograph I bought recently has a single-press (albeit two button) time zone change. Press the A and B buttons simultaneously and the time zones shown on the digital and analog displays swap.

Stainless steel version on sale at eCost for $169 yesterday . . .

I use a Ulysse Nardin Michelangelo UTC - stainless steel, blue face, SS bracelet - when travelling multiple timezones. In fact, it's on my wrist right now. One push either way adjusts the main hands by an hour, with my home time showing in the small window. It's relatively complex for a mechanical watch. I would think implementing it in quartz/LCD wouldn't be too difficult.

Like this, only in the no-longer-available cobalt blue face: http://www.ulysse-nardin.com/e/colle...&ID_Cat=100004

Another, less expensive possibility is the Oris Worldtimer

http://www.oris.ch/english/watches_n...worldtimer.htm

It has dual time displays on the dial. The there are two buttons on the side that move the hour hand on the main dial one hour in either direction each time you push it (one button moves it forward, one button moves it back an hour). The small dial stays the same, set for your home time zone. The small dial has a day night indicator for the home time zone and the date display moves with the main dial so you know your local date. Ive had for years and it works quite well.

Casio Wave-ceptors (I think that is what they are called) have a main time and a travel time. You can preset the travel time (it has a nice display with all the worlds time zones and a city in them so you can pick buy pushing two buttons to move forward or back, one time zone a push) and then when you arrive, push one button to change the display from the main (local time) to the travel time. The local time is displayed on a small display on the lower left. Also very nice and a lot cheaper than the Oris.

There are a relatively large number of similar watches. Ranging from the Casio which if I recall I paid about $100 for to the Oris which is more like $1400 to things like the Patek Philippe Travel time which is about $35,000.

I also have a Citizen EcoDrive. They have many different models that come with different price tags. One button to step through timezones east-bound and one for west-bound. You can then "edit" the list of timezones to only include the ones you travel between.

I leave the analogue display on my home timezone, and use the digital display for my local timezone. So its very quick and simple to change timezones. The alarm times also follow the digital clock and hence work for my local timezone.

patek philippe world time.

Another vote for Citizen Ecodrive. Great watches.

My first watch ever had a one-button time zone change. You pulled the button out, turned it and pushed it back in.

Probably not what the OP has in mind, but it meets the specs as stated in the thread title.

(Sometimes technology advances aren't.)