Glashütte Original presents its summer selection

With its summer selection, Glashütte Original brings the colour blue into the spotlight: the PanoMaticLunar watch for men unites a rich midnight blue and cool stainless steel in powerful harmony, while the delicate light blue of the PanoMatic Luna lady’s watch radiates a refreshing lightness. And these two blue timekeepers have even more in common. Slim white gold hands trace their paths across asymmetrically designed dials on both models. This characteristic design feature of its Pano models allows the Saxon manufactory to make room for two distinctive complications: the elaborately worked moon phase and the Glashütte Original Panorama Date. The characteristic “big date” celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The manufactory presented the mechanism in 1997. Today it adorns numerous models in the collection and has become a signature feature of the brand. 

 

Glashütte Original presents its summer selection

PanoMaticLunar

With the PanoMaticLunar Glashütte Original unites characteristic facets of its horological art in an exclusive timepiece. It’s the experienced team at Glashütte Original’s in-house dial manufactory in Pforzheim, Germany, who determine the perfect shade of blue of this timepiece’s highly refined dial. The desired hue can only be achieved through attentive monitoring of the galvanisation and of a total of 40 precisely defined steps in the manufacturing.

The design and the characteristic off-centre displays take pride of place with the PanoMaticLunar. The arrangement of the individual displays on the dial is inspired by the golden ratio – the legendary law of aesthetic harmony. With this timepiece the focus is on the Glashütte Original Panorama Date in particular, presented here in white numerals against a blue ground. The characteristic big date has been a distinctive element of the Glashütte Original style for twenty years. It is based on two concentrically arranged discs mounted on the same plane, which allows the two numerals composing the date to be considerably larger than on comparable watches; the absence of the vertical bar dividing the numerals renders the date perfectly legible at a glance. The PanoMatic Lunar combines stainless steel and a dark blue calfskin strap. 

 

Glashütte Original presents its summer selection

PanoMatic Luna

The delicate blue mother-of-pearl dial is the product of expert craftsmanship in the watchmaker’s in-house dial manufactory. Mother of pearl is an organic-inorganic composite harvested from the inmost layer of certain mollusc shells. Utmost care must be taken when transforming the fragile material into the razor-thin “face” of an elegant ladies’ watch. To achieve the precise hue desired, the back of the delicate white source material is carefully coated with a layer of lacquer. The dial presents an individual aspect with the mother of pearl’s natural graining, which makes each piece unique.

Before this season, Glashütte Original launched a steel version of its Senator Chronograph Panorama Date watch. Originally found in 2014 with valuable metal instances, this watch was commended because of its in-house developed, column-wheel flyback chronograph movement, a considerable achievement for your brand. With this new steel variant, the Original Senator Chronograph Panorama Date is half the cost as the gold version. So let us see exactly what the offering here is.When I think of Glashütte Original, I think of major date windows and comparatively contemporary sized (40mm and above), well-executed wrist watches. While most of the line up includes a formal, dress watch feel for this, they are also not afraid to experiment with color as the Glashütte Sixties Iconic Square collection proved. Given that the complications of this watch in question today, I can not help but believe that the Original Senator Chronograph Panorama Date is exactly what you would seem to if you wanted a timepiece much like A. Lange & Söhne’s Datograph with no sticker shock (along with a sportier look, but more about this later). As I mentioned previously, one of the highlights of the watch is that the movement, Glashütte’s calibre 37-01.

A total of 83 radiant white brillant-cut diamonds sparkle on the bezel, the dial indexes and winding screw crown. They frame the Glashütte Original Panorama Date as well, which appears in an oval dial window at 4 o’clock. The PanoMatic Luna is enhanced with a light blue Louisiana alligator leather strap.