Say hello to my little friend.
He is a "dual time" watch. Usually this is accomplished by adding a second hour "hand" - be it a "UTC" complication that shows you Greenwich Mean Time or a bezel you can rotate that gives you a second set of hours. My friend Ardath, on the other hand...
So this is effectively two independent watches. Which is an odd thing to do. What's more, they're good watches. Cheap, weird case be damned, those are 21-jewel ladies' movements with shock protection and chatons on the 2nd and third wheels.
I bought this little guy for $20 on Saturday. I'd never heard of Ardath either. So I poke around on eBay and find that it's not really a $20 watch. I also find that they had some with a seconds hand and a calendar which, for ladies' movements, is gettin' fancy.
That half the watch is in Arabic is a clue, but not necessarily a great one. One of my favorite brands is Universal Geneve, which was also a favorite of Hosni Mubarak, Saddam Hussein And Donald Trump. All sorts of strange things were made for "the sandbox" prior to "the sandbox" letting you know they didn't appreciate your Orientalist pejoratives.
And for those of us who grew up in the '80s, our textbooks were often from the '70s and '60s. Most of our maps had "North Vietnam" on them. And the text books generally had a time zone map in 'em, and for Saudi Arabia it just sort of had an asterisk. No real info, just "Saudi time." So we go digging.
Yeah, mutherfucker. Wherever you are in the Kingdom of Saud, when the sun goes down it's midnight.
Modernity is never equally distributed.