Exceptional timepieces that melt the ice
Glashütte Original reveals the magic of winter
When
nature sinks into snow-white silence, winter has arrived. And in this
thoughtful time of year it comes to us again, that incomparable yearning
for places that enchant us. For people who warm our hearts. And for
moments that make us happy. Two exceptional timepieces from Glashütte
Original participate in the magic of this cold time of year. With cool
elegance and the rich traditions of the German art of watchmaking, the
Senator Cosmopolite, in shining stainless steel, and the sparkling
PanoMatic Luna cast a spell on their admirers.
Multi-facetted and borderless: the Senator Cosmopolite
As
richly facetted as an ice crystal, the Senator Cosmopolite proves the
perfect companion for every journey. The timepiece represents
uncompromising precision, whether leading its wearer home to a crackling
fire, or to sun-splashed lands far away. Its sophisticated mechanics
display the time of day in two time zones at once – taking Standard and
Daylight Saving Time into account – in any of the world time zones
currently in use. At its heart is the manufactory’s 89-02 automatic
movement, a 4-Hz masterpiece assembled by hand from more than 400
individual components, with an off-centre rotor and a 72-hour power
reserve.
This
year’s new stainless steel model with dark blue Louisiana alligator
leather strap is the latest version to join the Senator Cosmopolite
line, which debuted in 2015. Executed in the characteristic style of
Glashütte Original, the clear design is reduced to its most essential
elements. The dial design and layout of the displays make it a pleasure
to check the time, even when it’s icy cold outside.
Wintry
colours – dark blue and white with detail accents in black – determine
the overall look of the watch. An auxiliary dial framed in silver at 12
o’clock presents the home time and integrated power reserve. The
characteristic Glashütte Original Panorama Date is at 4 o’clock, while
two narrow windows at 8 o’clock are set harmoniously within the curve of
the dial.
They use IATA international airport codes in three
colours to indicate the traveller’s destination. The 24 time zones that
deviate from GMT by a full hour are each represented by an IATA code in
black; an additional 8 with half-hour deviations present codes in blue,
and the remaining three, each with a three-quarter hour offset from GMT,
show an IATA code in red. Positioned at 9 o’clock is the newly designed
day/night display with a small sun and stylised starry night sky.
Like an ice-covered lake in the winter sun: the sparkling PanoMatic Luna
Heavenly
details are also the source of the PanoMatic Luna’s fascination. Its
refined mother-of-pearl dial recalls a frozen lake mirroring the clear
winter sky. The beguiling, shimmering face of the watch is the product
of elaborate hand-crafting in Glashütte Original’s own in-house dial
manufactory in Pforzheim, Germany. The Panorama Date at 4 o’clock and
the intriguing moon phase at 2 o’clock, in which a diamond-cut silvery
moon and stars shine from the night sky, also reveal the hand of the
artist. The big date, although a characteristic feature of Glashütte
Original, remains a rarity in a mechanical ladies’ watch.
83
diamonds totalling 1.09 carats lend the PanoMatic Luna the brilliance
of ice crystals in the winter sun. Precisely 64 white brillant-cut
diamonds adorn the finely polished, 39.4-mm stainless steel case. An
additional 18 brillant-cut diamonds on the dial’s rod indexes take up
this brilliance in an elegant fashion. The glittering ensemble is topped
off by a large, 3 mm brilliant-cut diamond on the winding crown. A
light blue Louisiana alligator leather strap with pin buckle echoes the
heavenly blue of the dial and rounds off the timepiece, which features
the manufactory’s 90-12 automatic movement, with subtle grace.