Start with a Sinn 104 and strip away all the fluff; the polish, the gloss, the fancy hands and leave just a no-nonsense piece of industrial design intended to tell you the time in the easiest, brightest and lightest way and you’ve got the Sinn 105 UTC.

This watch has (almost) nothing it doesn’t need and it definitely has everything it should. Simple but super effective hands over an absolutely flat matt white dial with those plain, but interesting lozenge shaped markers make a watch that is simultaneously serious about the business of telling the time and light, breezy and fun – a pretty powerful combo.

Little extra details bring a level of attention common with Sinn; 200m water resistance, tegimented steel bezel to make it even tougher under the DLC coating, a proper 48 click bezel (easily the best option for a travel watch) , flawless bead blasted case etc mean this is going to be a brilliant and trouble free companion. In keeping with the easy living character of the watch is a bog standard Sellita 330-1 movement, it may not be the sexiest movement going about but for long term dependability, it can’t be beaten. Typically in this segment the Sellita jumps the GMT hand rather than the hour hand which is less than ideal if you are traveling rather than tracking a time zone but at least you get to keep the quick set date and don’t have to do the date shuffle like someone stuck in the sixties.

There are changes I’d love to make to the Sinn 105 UTC but they are pretty minor – the watch is only 11.9mm thin but dump the unnecessary display case back and that could get even thinner. Much as I love the simplicity of the dial, a little more work with more interesting markers at 12, 3, 6 and 9 would have been appreciated. Still, in the end, the whinges are few, the plaudits many and recommend this beauty highly.