Speaking of compromises, the main one you see in this watch is the GMT complication itself. As you may have guessed, it most certainly isn’t a “flyer” GMT, but rather a “caller” GMT, meaning that the GMT hand is independently adjusted. Now that’s all fine, but the compromise comes in the physical gearing of the hand. In a higher-end caller GMT, you might expect that the GMT hand would adjust in increments of one hour, meaning that at the turn of the crown, the GMT hand would click over each hour until the right one is hit. But on the Marlin Quartz GMT, there is none of that, rather a freely adjustable hand in either direction. This basically means that you can just set the GMT hand to any time you’d like, not necessarily having it point to the part of the actual hour. For most people, this is less ideal for a proper GMT. Unless you set the main time to midnight, then adjust the GMT hand to the start of the correct hour for the difference in time zone, the GMT hand will most likely be slightly off.