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…
Classical, or modern? If you are looking for a perpetual calendar by Glashütte Original you now have the choice. The Senator Excellence Perpetual Calendar Limited Edition has at its heart the same engineering of the traditional watch with white enamel dial launched in 2017, but in the new version, the dial has been completely restyled.…
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…
In 2016 Glashütte Original presented its new Calibre 36 movement with 100 hours power reserve and a bayonet mounting system. This year at Baselworld the brand presented a perpetual calendar watch in red gold and steel, the Glashütte Original Senator Excellence Perpetual Calendar, that extends the family of watches using this new movement. Spacious dial…
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…
The Senator Excellence is one of Glashütte Original‘s new product launches for Baselworld 2016, but it is much more than just three new references including a classic pilot’s watch design. Its new Calibre 36 movement incorporates a lot of research and development, and it will become the foundation of a whole new series of watches.…
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…
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…
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…
This selection presents twenty pilot’s watches, still in production, with the classic black dial, white Arabic numerals, and triangle marker at 12 o’clock, recalling the watches supplied to the Luftwaffe in the years before, during and after the Second Worlld War by A. Lange & Sohne, IWC, Wempe, Laco, and Stowa. Three of those historic…
This watch has long been part of the Glashütte Original collection, and even though the brand connects it to the world of navigation at sea, I personally find it close to the pilot’s watch aesthetic, with its black dial, generous green SuperLuminova, and Arabic numerals that are vertical in all positions. There are extra elements,…
The previous versions of the PanoMaticLunar and the PanoReserve were presented at Baselworld 2012, and the new features of the 2015 Baselworld models are basically dial colour and finish. Glashütte Original has its own dial manufactory in Pforzheim and so have complete control over dial design elements. The new models feature intense blue and black…
It’s a familiar type of watch. Black dial, white numbers, large size, lots of SuperLuminova, Pilot’s watches were originally designed to be easily legible in an aircraft cockpit, and so simplicity was essential. Today, pilots have all sorts of electronic equipment to help them, but even so, the pilot’s watch is great for everyday use…
This article on the best perpetual calendar watches 2015 look at these challenging timepieces, which require a lot of movement development. A lot of information has to be displayed, and at certain moments, a lot of energy has to be available to change several indications at once. For example, at midnight on 31st December, day,…