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Baselworld 2013: Glashütte Original
Glashütte Original at Baselworld 2013
presented by Marcus Hanke
presented by Marcus Hanke
Last year, Glashütte Original presented its own epitome of watchmaking, the most complicated watch developed and made by GO: the Grande Cosmopolite Tourbillon was the first mechanical world timer able to quick-set the time in 37 time zones, including the various uneven zone times, differing by 30 or 15 minutes from the full hour. Additionally, it has a quick-setting for the daylight saving times, and if this were not enough, the marvellous timepiece also features a perpetual calendar and a flying tourbillon.
After this magnificent novelty, GO decided to consolidate its growth this year, which is why no completely new complication or movement was presented at Basel. For years, GO was well-known for the release of several completely new-developed movements and watch lines, but also infamous for delays until the new watches could be delivered to the dealers. I am glad that this will be different this year, with most of the new pieces being in series production already and soon available on the market.
Star of this year’s GO novelties is the PanoLunarTourbillon, an automatic Pano-watch with flying tourbillon, panorama date and moon phase. It is available in a 40mm 18k pink gold case.
According to the comments I heard, the most popular novelty, however, is the Senator Tourbillon. This 42mm large timepiece is highly elegant, with its combination of a white gold case and a dark grey dial with Roman numerals, with a matching panorama date. The cal. 94-03 movement is selfwinding, with a flying tourbillon at 6.
Technically more conventional, but nonetheless extremely attractive is the new Senator Chronometer Regulator, a chronometer with separate 12 hours dial. The size of the case (either white or red gold) is 42mm, the manual-winding chronometer movement features a power reserve display at 9 and a day/night indication in a small hole at the hour subdial’s 6 o’clock position. Power reserve is about 45 hours.
The new Senator models have seen a decent facelift, making the bezel thinner, thus offering more space for the silvered dial with Roman numerals. Available in both red gold and steel with 40mm diameter, the Senator’s cal. 100 offers panorama date and moon phase as an option.
“Blue Hour”. This designation, that has been worn by a series of Union Glashütte watches many years ago, reappears with a stunning Sixties model, with or without date, and a striking dark blue dial (the latter featuring a panorama date window in matching colour).
Finally, the Seventies series is now also offered with leather or rubber strap.
Despite its official premiere in 2012, I noticed that there are barely any pictures of the Grande Cosmopolite Tourbillon available, other than the official press pictures. Therefore, I am including this wonderful creation in my 2013 report:
This message has been edited by AnthonyTsai on 2013-05-28 10:24:52