Praesidus sells two Montar field watches at one price, and the choice between them comes down to how you want a second time zone shown. The Ana-Digi runs analog hands over an LCD, and the GMT answers with a fourth hand and a 24-hour bezel. Both cost $275, and both are quartz field watches built around that second zone.
Both are rated to 10 ATM, both are up for preorder now at Praesidus, and both ship in the first week of December 2026. The first batch stops at 200 watches per model.
Price: $275 (preorder, ships the first week of December 2026)
Where to buy: Praesidus
The Ana-Digi puts a second clock under the hands
A BJS052 ana-digi quartz module drives the Ana-Digi, and it runs two clocks at once. The analog hands sit on top, an LCD window sits underneath, and each display keeps its own time, so you set the hands to wherever you are and leave the readout on home time. Neither display borrows from the other, and a glance tells you both zones without a button press.
Around that split sits the field kit you’d expect from a digital watch: an alarm, a stopwatch with a split function, a day-of-the-week display and an hourly chime. A LIGHT pusher backlights the LCD after dark, and Super-LumiNova covers the hands and markers for the analog half.
Canyon keeps the readout amber, big enough to read at arm’s length without crowding the hands off the dial. Pushers flank the case for mode and light, the crown sits at 3, and a yellow seconds hand cuts across both displays.
Case, compass bezel and the numbered caseback
A 44mm case in sandblasted black stainless steel carries the Ana-Digi, 13.5mm thick under a sapphire-coated mineral crystal. A rotating compass bezel rings the dial, marked with cardinal points and minute numbers, and a 22mm fabric hook-and-loop strap closes it. Water resistance is 10 ATM.
Flip it over and the steel caseback carries an engraved eagle over a mountain ridge, plus the watch’s own number from the first batch run. The numbering runs out fast at 200 watches, and a two-year warranty backs the watch.
Every preorder also gets a free green canvas strap in the box, a launch offer that swaps the look without a second purchase. Orders over $249 ship free at Praesidus, and since $275 clears that line on its own, the shipping costs nothing extra, and the strap arrives with the watch in December.
The GMT keeps it all analog
Price: $275 (preorder, ships the first week of December 2026)
Where to buy: Praesidus
A Swiss Ronda 515.24H quartz movement drives the GMT. The second zone rides on an arrow-tipped fourth hand that adjusts on its own, separate from the hour hand, and reads against the 24-hour scale on the rotating bezel. Local time stays on the main hands, so the bezel and the extra hand carry the travel math while the dial itself stays plain analog. Set the hand once and home time never moves when you land.
A date window sits at 3 o’clock, and that’s the only complication on show: Arabic numerals, baton hands, no screen anywhere. Super-LumiNova covers the hands and the bezel scale, so the second zone stays readable in the dark with no backlight to switch on.
The GMT’s case is 43mm of polycarbonate, which keeps it light on the wrist, and it’s a millimeter smaller than the Ana-Digi while sharing almost nothing with it. The crystal is sapphire-coated mineral glass, water resistance is 10 ATM, and the strap is a 22mm textured canvas hook-and-loop.
Four colorways each, one price
Canyon pairs an amber display with sand-colored markers and a brown strap. Cinder keeps the amber on a black dial with an olive strap, Flint runs cream markers and a tan strap, and Graphite swaps the readout to silver-white over an olive strap.
Basalt runs a black dial and an olive strap with pale green details, and Lichen matches an olive dial to its strap and tips the GMT hand in orange. Dune goes tan on the dial inside a dark bezel with orange accents, and Signal pairs a black dial with yellow markings.
The cheaper way into the same ideas
Two clocks or a GMT hand are old ideas, though, and cheaper watches already do both jobs well. Casio and Timex each sell one side of this pairing for under $100, in stock today, with no preorder and no December wait, so either one covers the function if the function is all you need. What neither one sells is the Montar’s case and dial work.
Casio’s AQS800W is the ana-digi benchmark at this end of the market: solar powered, analog hands over a digital window, 100 meters of water resistance. It gives up the steel case and the compass bezel, though, and it costs $71.15, close to a quarter of the Montar’s price.
Price: $71.15
Where to buy: Amazon
Timex’s Waterbury Traditional GMT does the GMT half in a 39mm stainless steel case with a white dial, a quartz movement and a proper fourth hand. It’s the smaller, dressier take on the same layout at $97.34 against the Montar’s $275, it’s in stock today, and it’s the pick if a 43mm polycarbonate case sounds like a lot of watch.
Price: $97.34
Where to buy: Amazon
Side by side, the trade is plain: Montar money buys the case build, the dial work and a spot in a 200-watch batch, while Casio and Timex money buys the same functions today, with change back from a hundred dollars.
| Model | Movement | Case | Water resistance | Price | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Praesidus Montar Ana-Digi | BJS052 ana-digi quartz | 44mm stainless steel | 100m | $275 | Preorder, ships Dec 2026 |
| Praesidus Montar GMT | Ronda 515.24H quartz | 43mm polycarbonate | 100m | $275 | Preorder, ships Dec 2026 |
| Casio AQS800W | Solar ana-digi quartz | Resin | 100m | $71.15 | In stock |
| Timex Waterbury Traditional GMT | Quartz GMT | 39mm stainless steel | 100m | $97.34 | In stock |
Price: $275 (preorder, ships the first week of December 2026)
Where to buy: Praesidus
Buy a Montar if the dial is the point: quartz accuracy, a real second time zone and field-watch specs at $275, with the December wait as the cost of entry. Buy the Casio for the ana-digi function or the Timex for the GMT hand if $275 on a preorder feels steep.
Skip all four if a second zone is a thing you’ll never set. The wait is the only catch, and it ends in December.
