Glashütte Original BASEL 2010

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The stunning Pocket watch number 1

 

 

The new Senator Sixties Panorama Date and the stunning PanoMaticLunar XL

 

 

The PanoMaticLunar XL in rose gold with a warm and reduced dial.

 

 

 

With the automatic movement caliber 90-02 and its decentral rotor as well as the Glashütte Original Duplex swan neck fine adjustment

 

 

The Senator Chronograph XL is driven by the Glashütte Original Caliber 39-34, a precise automatic movement with a 40-hour power reserve. In keeping with its quintessentially original character, this caliber offers characteristic Glashütte Original design features, easily visible through a sapphire crystal case back.

 

 

Among these are the three-quarter plate, a swan-neck fine adjustment, Glashütte ribbing and double sunburst decoration, along with a skeletonized rotor fitted with an oscillating weight in 21-carat gold. The Senator Chronograph XL’s lugs hold a finely worked black Louisiana alligator strap

 

 

 

The PanoInverse XL from Glashütte Original reveals the inner beauty of the mechanical movement at its heart by lifting an extraordinary element from the hidden interior to the visible surface of the watch. Inner beauty becomes outer beauty.

 

 

The beauty of the PanoInverse XL is evident at first glance—screw-mounted gold chatons, each fixed with three white screws to the galvanized black three-quarter plate with Glashütte ribbing; applied white gold Arabic numerals and indexes and white gold hands; an elegant power reserve indicator and, above all, the exceptional duplex swan-neck fine adjustment. The galvanized silver fine adjustment is mounted on a black balance bridge finished with galvanic white engraving, and the regular oscillation of the screw balance beneath offers a fascinating glimpse of the beauty of motion at the heart of the Glashütte Original Caliber 66-04 movement.

 

 

 

The off-center positioning of the PanoInverse XL dial gives the duplex swan-neck fine adjustment pride of place, allowing the connoisseur of fine mechanical watches to examine the element, which enables an extraordinarily precise adjustment of the movement’s beat and rate.

 

 

It was the evident beauty of this perfectly finished functional element that inspired the watchmakers to redesign the movement in such a way as to place ‘the butterfly’—as the duplex swan-neck fine adjustment is sometimes called—at the center of attention on the dial. The revelation of inner beauty results from the inversion of elements normally visible only through a sapphire crystal case back.

 

 

 

This ambitious undertaking required the creation of new components and a substantial reworking of existing components and subgroups. All three plates and the wheel-pinion subgroups for the movement and power reserve were reworked to fit new proportions.

 

 

The exceptional PanoInverse XL is available in a polished stainless steel case with a matching black Louisiana alligator skin strap.

 

The PanoMaticCounter XL presents its curiously fascinating counter complication in an elegant and effective manner. Red numerals appear on a black ground in a double-digit window positioned at 9 o’clock. The wearer activates the counter using three pushers positioned on the left side of the stainless steel case.

 

The plus pusher at 9 o’clock moves the count forward, one unit at a time, from 00 to 99; the minus pusher at 8 o’clock counts down, and the zero pusher at 10 o’clock resets to zero (00).

 

 

Directly opposite the counter window, at 3 o’clock, is the visually compelling Glashütte Original panorama date display, with its seamless presentation of the date in white numerals on a black ground. Aligned along the vertical axis are the off-center hour and minute display in the lower half of the dial and, in the upper half, the large chronograph stop-seconds scale, raised above the galvanized black dial and flanked by the subsidiary seconds and 30-minute counters, whose zero points have been rotated 60° to guarantee optimum legibility.

 

 

 

The hour and minute dial features applied white gold numerals and hour markers and white gold hands; the stop-seconds scale, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute counters present white numerals and indexes on black.

 

 

A superb example of the art of engineering, the PanoMaticCounter XL features the new Caliber 96-01, a classic column wheel chronograph with flyback function. Comprising 584 individually-crafted components, the 96-01 is based on the award-winning Glashütte Original Caliber 95. Its patented bilateral winding mechanism uses step gears to transmit energy quickly and efficiently to the movement and enables an ‘intelligent’ accommodation to the behavior of the wearer.

 

 

 

Complementing this remarkable movement is the novel counter complication. Deceptively simple in appearance, the new complication module was designed by Glashütte Original’s in-house development team and requires 217 individual components, each of which is precision-crafted in the Glashütte Original manufacture. Like the panorama date, the counter window’s seamless display presents a double-digit figure (the current count at any given time) without the need for a double window

 

 

The PanoMaticCounter XL offers the characteristic features of the fine art of watch making at Glashütte Original, including the three-quarter plate with Glashütte ribbing, polished steel components, beveled edges and blued screws, a hand-engraved balance cock and a swan-neck fine adjustment with a finely threaded spindle. Its exquisite finishings are easily visible through the antireflective sapphire crystal case back. The stainless steel case is held firmly in place by a black Louisiana alligator leather strap.

[greg_r 81]

First nice watches you've posted all day. Great stuff - I love 'em. Thanks, Onze

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now thats a watch.

[AustinTech 0]

Glashutte is my favorite brand - hands down.

 

those are schön

[LightGeek 25]

Thread from the grave.

 

I was searching for the PanoMaticCounter XL... What a stunning piece!

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[SubFrog 0]

I once had a great Glashutte...but, can't find an exact replacement. That PanoMaticLunar comes close.

 

Beautiful watches.

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Hawt