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Glashütte Original is awarded “Golden Balance” watch award PanoMaticLunar wins in category up to 25,000 EUR
Glashütte Original is awarded “Golden Balance” watch award
PanoMaticLunar wins in category up to 25,000 EUR
Benjamin Pfeiffer-Belli Sales Manager Glashütte Original Copyright Petra Stadler for Hubert Burda Media
Glashütte
Original is pleased to have been awarded a first place again this year
in the renowned “Golden Balance“ watch competition. At the awards
ceremony, which took place on February 13 in Munich, the PanoMaticLunar
with dark blue dial in a red gold case took first prize in the category
of watches priced up to 25,000 euros. The contest is one of the oldest
and most renowned public awards in watchmaking.
For the “Golden
Balance” awards, the readers of UHREN-MAGAZIN, Watchtime.net and Focus
name their favourite watches and make their choice from over 200 models
in five different price categories. With the striking PanoMaticLunar,
this winning watch features the Pano line’s characteristic asymmetric
dial layout, which makes it a familiar face from Glashütte Original for
many watch connoisseurs.
A
satin-brushed and polished red gold case frames the dark blue dial and
its typical off-centre placement of the displays. The auxiliary dials
for hours/minutes and small seconds appear within the left side of the
dial, while the characteristic Panorama Date – a signature feature of
Glashütte Original – is positioned at 4 o’clock and the exquisite moon
phase display at 2 o’clock. The golden hour and minute hands, which are
inlaid with luminous material to enable clear legibility under all
lighting conditions, complete the dial visuals.
Specialists
at the German watchmaker’s in-house dial manufactory in Pforzheim
create the dials in numerous meticulous steps. The saturated blue hue,
for example, is the product of a strictly controlled galvanic procedure
designed to achieve the perfect shade of blue. Equally strict rules
govern the processes employed to apply the pattern of fine grooves on
the auxiliary dials for the off-centre hours/minutes and small seconds
displays.
Characteristic
for the PanoMaticLunar: the moon phase display. The two golden moons on
the disc are first cut out with a milling tool, which gives them their
lovely convex shape. Subsequent polishing with a diamond milling tool
lends them their unique brilliance. The silver of the starry night sky,
on the other hand, is the result of an elaborate galvanic process.
At
the heart of the elegant timepiece is the Calibre 90-02 automatic
movement. The sapphire crystal case back offers a clear view of the
finely finished movement with its traditional elements of the Glashütte
art of watchmaking.
Glashütte Original is awarded “Golden Balance” watch award PanoMaticLunar wins in category up to 25,000 EUR
