A GMT watch is useful even if you never board a plane: the extra hand keeps a second time zone in view for coordinating with colleagues overseas or simply tracking what time it is at home. The Pan Am x Timex Waterbury Automatic GMT takes that function and adds an airline's visual identity, at a listed U.S. price of $669.
The specification is the sensible starting point. The TW2Y94300 uses a 41.5mm stainless steel case with an automatic movement - Timex lists 24 jewels and roughly 41 hours of power reserve - and an exhibition caseback so you can see it. It carries a silver-white dial with luminous hands and hour markers, a blue-and-white GMT hand, and a date window at three o'clock. The rotating bezel is a black-and-blue 24-hour scale, which means this is a caller-style GMT read against the bezel rather than a mechanism with an independently settable hour hand.
That distinction matters for buyers comparing options. A caller GMT is simpler to understand and generally cheaper to build; you set the second zone by rotating the bezel rather than clicking the hour hand forward. It is less convenient when you land somewhere new and want to reset the local time in one motion. For most users tracking a single overseas time zone, it does the job without complaint.
The Pan Am branding is the actual pitch. The dial carries the airline's blue globe logo, and the oversized crown is stamped with it too, and this is a design drawn from Pan Am's visual identity rather than a reissue of a specific historical pilot's watch. Timex already sells quartz Pan Am GMT models for far less; what you are paying for here is the automatic movement and the mechanical travel-watch character. If you wanted a sub-$200 GMT with the same logo, that product exists. If you wanted a mechanical one, this is the version, and $669 is a fair - if not cheap - price for a branded automatic travel watch.