Enter Timex with the Expedition North GMT at $550. This tough, lightweight GMT watch is exactly what many adventure travelers want, and its price packs a lot of high-end specs, at least on paper.

The brand takes its lauded Q series into the digital era — at least partially — with this sneakily travel-friendly timepiece.

The new-and-improved MK1 follows in the footsteps of a 1980s classic worn by Richard Dean Anderson in the 1980s TV show ...