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A beautiful backside
The GO PanoRetroGraph in white gold, ref. #60-01-02-02-06, one in a series of 150, circa 2002, with a hand-wound integrated column wheel chronograph and countdown function with chime. Notice the gong at the perimeter, the use of German silver, the engraved balance cock, the screw-mounted gold chatons, and what appears to be a higher overall level of finish than routinely applied to current GO calibers. I have a sense that GO may have been a bit more ambitious in terms of market placement until it was integrated into the Swatch machine. (The white gold PanoRetroGraph retailed at US 51,000 upon first release.
Oh, and the dial side, if you're curious:
Cheers all!
A beautiful backside
The GO PanoRetroGraph in white gold, ref. #60-01-02-02-06, one in a series of 150, circa 2002, with a hand-wound integrated column wheel chronograph and countdown function with chime. Notice the gong at the perimeter, the use of German silver, the engrave...
An amazing piece and fully agree with your comment…
On GO as a brand. Let’s not forget that Swatch initially kept the enthusiasm and scope but then this somewhat petered out. Fortunately due to the terms of the deal for state support in Saxony the majority still needs to be done in Glashütte, meaning that ...
I regret that I share the view that the earlier innovation seems to have faded
They seem to be pushing different coloured dials or bejewelled Luna range as novelties. Apart from the panomaticcalendar and panolunarinverse, there doesn't seem to be any new exciting calibres. Can't they do a double window for date and month? Or even a ...