Glashütte Original

respo
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Refreshing post - thank you!

Thank you for your post on the GO Calendar Week. This is one of my favorite watches and we do not speak much about it here.  There is also the ALS 1815 KALENDERWOCHE, but IMHO no other calendar week watch compares to the movement inside the GO Calendar Week, at least among the models I am aware of.  The ALS has the analog display with a pointer indicating the week numbers along the perimeter of the dial -- lovely looking but far less interesting than the GO display and the movement behind  it.  I was aware that this model is built in a special section of the factory reserved for the most complicated watches, but I was not aware that the perpetuals were not constructed on this same floor.  Apparantly this is one other complication, like the chronograph in general, that is more complicated and challenging to produce than the perpetual calendar.

The calendar week is really only useful in Europe, as you noted, but it is such a novelty outside of Europe at least, that it is appealing to some of us WISes who are fascinated by the unusual, especially when so understated as this one surely is. 

I am glad you posted this, as  I can never get enough of seeing and reading about this special watch.  I hope one day to see one in the metal.  I am very tempted by this watch that is relatively useless to me. 

Thanks again.

respo