Glashütte Original Sixties and Sixties Panorama Date

Glashütte Original Sixties and Sixties Panorama Date

It’s difficult to imagine what life was like in Glashütte in the 1960s when the town was behind the Iron Curtain and what had been several independent watch-making companies were working as the state-controlled organization VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe or simply GUB. When you visit the museums in Berlin documenting those years you get a sense…

Glashütte Original Senator Chronograph Panorama Date

Glashütte Original Senator Chronograph Panorama Date

Glashütte Original‘s Calibre 37 integrated chronograph presented in 2014 was very classical, with Roman numerals and blued hands, in platinum and red gold variants. In 2017, a stainless steel version of the Senator Chronograph Panorama Date has been introduced, with younger looks provided by the extensive use on blue SuperLuminova on the hands and hour…

Glashütte Original Sixties Iconic Square Collection

Fizzy graded colours, squared cushion-shaped cases, a 1960s look: the new Sixties Iconic Square Collection by Glashütte Original continues the theme already launched by the Original Sixties Iconic collection. This is a limited edition collection, with just 25 pieces available for each of the five colours. Dials are made in Pforzheim by a company that…

Glashütte Original Pavonina

One of the things that has been happening in recent years is an increasing use of quartz movements by high-end brands, particularly for women’s watches. Longines’ 2015 watches for women are all quartz, and Pavonina by Glashütte Original, first presented in 2013 and with new designs introduced at Baselworld 2015, is another example. A lot…

Glashütte Original Sixties Iconic Collection

This new collection of five watches by Glashütte Original have the bright colours that are becoming a familiar trend in contemporary watches. Slim, circular, thin enough to be a dress watch, their 39 mm case diameter makes them a unisex watch. Looking back to the Spezimatic They combine engaging colour and design with interesting historical…

Glashütte Original Senator Cosmopolite

The Senator Cosmopolite by Glashütte Original is a new version, in red and white gold, of a model introduced in 2012, which was limited to 25 pieces. The brand wanted to bring this practical and innovative GMT watch into its core collection, in the form of a watch that would be ideal for everyday wear.…

Glashütte Original

Company profile: The Glashütte Original story is, on the face of it, short and simple: founded in 1994 by the privatization of a previous East German conglomerate, a move made possible by German reunification. But in actual fact, it’s not short, and it’s not simple. The story of Glashütte Original is also the story of…

Glashütte Original, a story of survival

Glashütte is not just a watch, it’s the name of a town. And it’s a long story of resilience and survival, starting in 1845 when the local silver mines started to run out. Ferdinand Adolph Lange had visited Switzerland, where he had seen what the watch companies were doing there, and he responded to an…