For those who think that watches produced by Glashütte Original are quite austere, with silver-coloured dials and blue elements, the brand’s recent launches might prove them wrong. These days, while the classic silver/blue scheme is still alive, the Saxon manufacture is also all about colours. Think bright orange, salmon and blue or, more recently, forest […]
This shouldn’t be a surprise anymore, but indeed, Glashütte Original isn’t quite so austere and Teutonic anymore. For a couple of years now, the Saxon brand has infused colour and boldness to its (superbly executed) watches, going as far as creating fiery orange dials. And this strategy also applies to the most classic watches of […]
What’s old is new again. Gradient or “fumé” (smoked) dials are back in fashion. Popular in the 1970s, forgotten for a while and brought back on the scene recently, these colourful dials stand out with lighter tones in the centre that gradually darken towards the edges. Their gradient colour gives a rich depth to the […]
Glashütte Original watches are often very serious, sometimes a bit austere (in a good way actually, as it is part of their Saxon charm) and always beautifully executed. There’s no denying the instant quality feel of a watch produced by GO. A couple of years ago, the brand came up with a new concept known […]
Perhaps one of the most surprising launches of 2019 was Glashütte Original’s brand new Spezialist collection of dive watches. Dive watches from Glashütte Original? No way. Was this yet another brand jumping on the massively popular vintage/dive watch bandwagon? A desperate attempt to diversify a relatively classic portfolio by inventing a new line of retro […]
The Senator Chronometer Regulator made its debut in 2013 but can trace its layout all the way back to the 1870s when the tiny Saxon town of Glashütte was an important purveyor of precision chronometers and other timekeeping instruments like regulator clocks. Let’s take a closer look at the Senator Chronometer Regulator in red gold […]
Moon-phase watches are the most popular and poetic of astronomical complications. Considered more of an aesthetic choice than a complication of any intrinsic utility, a moon-phase watch offers watchmakers a window to exercise their creativity. At Glashütte Original, colour and texture are often used to exalt the beauty of our celestial neighbour. This is certainly […]
A classic among the classics, the Glashütte Original PanoMaticLunar is the essence of the German manufacturer, with its off-centred display, its beautifully executed movement and very Teutonic design, in cold and technical colours. Certainly, we’ve seen some more colourful versions, in gold with a blue dial for instance – but still rather classic. So what […]
1969 certainly was an eventful year. It is a year I would have loved to live: this was the year of the legendary music festival Woodstock; 1969 witnessed the first flight of the supersonic plane Concorde; the Rolling Stones recorded Let It Bleed; the Beatles gave the world Abbey Road; and Easy Rider and Once […]
During Time To Move, Swatch Group own event to present the new collections, Glashütte Original has presented several watches totally in line with its usual conception of watchmaking, such as the facelifted Senator Chronometer or an engraved PanoInverse. Yet, the star of the show, the watch that the Saxon brand presented first, the main novelty for 2019… is a watch none of us actually expected from the brand; a dive watch collection named SeaQ. Following our first look right after its presentation, it is time to now have a closer look at the modern SeaQ Panorama Date, to see if this Saxon dive watch is convincing (or not).