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Marcus Hanke
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NEWS ! NEWS !! NEWS !!! - What we'll see from GO within the next two years ...

The German watchmag CHRONOS published a nice article on GO in its recent no. 4 of 2002, and there are some very interesting news, too.

First of all: Already this year, in autumn, we are likely to see the first examples of a selfwinding PanoReserve movement, dubbed "PanoMatik" (most probable official designation: cal. 90). Here is a first drawing of the movement:


(Printed in CHRONOS 4-2002, page 42)

As we can see, GO constructed the automatic winding mechanism so that the rotor does not cover the balance with its unique double swan-neck adjustment. IMO, this will be aesthetically more pleasing than the somewhat bare 3/4-bridge of the PanoReserve model, which hides all the nice weelwork from the spectator's eye. The rotor will wind the watch unidirectionally, and the complete movement's height will not be more than 7 mm, including the panorama date complication.

An automatic version with moonphase, the PanoMatik Lunar, will also be offered. Not completely certain, but very probable is the integration of the unique 'flying tourbillon' into the PanoMatik movement, of course with panorama date. BTW, I'd like to add, that contrary to many other top range watch manufacturers, GO does not assign external tourbillon specialists (Renaud & papi, for instance) with the development of its tourbillons: Every development and production is done exclusively by the GO staff at the GUB factory.

Well, this is it for 2002. Please consider, that this year has already seen the unveiling of the PanoDate series, and the magnificent UNION Bergter watches. Now in the same year the PanoMatik and maybe even the PanoMatik Tourbillon - all while the factory is completely rebuilt. I think this productivity deserves due respect!

In 2003, we will get the new cal. 100, which will replace the cal. 39 in the Senator series. This new movement will have two serially wound mainspring barrels with a power reserve of about 60 to 70 hours. As a standard complication the movement will integrate a completely new (if you want you can call it weird) complication: The sweep second can be set to zero (12 o'clock) by means of a pusher and will restart immediately. This enables the wearer to adjust the watch simply by pressing a pusher. In spite of that feature, the new cal. 100 will be slimmer than the current cal. 39. AND most important: The cal. 100-watches will not cost more than the cal. 39-models! (Well, I'll believe this when time has come!)

At the Basel fair 2003, GO will show two different watches with the new movement: A chronograph with column wheel, flyback and panorama date; and a simpler one with power reserve, moonphase and panorama date. Further in the pipeline is the fine Senator perpetual based on the new movement, and later a new mechanism for a GMT watch.

Seems like Santa Claus is very early this year ...
Marcus