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Glashütte Original Senator Excellence Panorama Date Moon Phase Mens Watch
Ref. 1-36-04-02-05-30
Sits in Glashütte Original’s upper tier here — more premium than three quarters of the Glashütte Original watches we list, which start at £8,700.
Price range £8,700 to £34,700 across 32 Glashütte Original watches in stock.The Senator Excellence line sits at the quieter, more considered end of what Glashütte Original produces — not a complications showcase but a distillation of the house's formal tradition. At 40mm in solid rose gold, it reads closer to a classic dress watch than the steel variants in this family, which run larger, and at 12.2mm it disappears under a cuff without ceremony. The silver-grainé dial, frosted rather than mirror-smooth, absorbs light instead of throwing it back, so the Roman numerals and blued hands stay readable across a room. The panorama date sits at four o'clock and the moonphase at ten, both native to the movement rather than bolted on via an external module, which keeps the case at its depth and the dial geometry coherent. The Calibre 36-04 behind it is wholly in-house and carries the marks the region is known for — Glashütte stripe finishing on the three-quarter plate, hand-bevelled edges, blued steel screws, a skeletonised 21k gold rotor. Its silicon hairspring resists magnetic interference without a Faraday cage, and the single barrel delivers a 100-hour reserve, meaning a watch left off the wrist Friday morning is still running Monday. The Louisiana alligator strap is secured by a rose gold folding clasp with a notched sizing pin, so the watch clicks onto the wrist without risk of dropping it during the process — a small thing that matters every morning.
- Reference
- 1-36-04-02-05-30
- Brand
- Glashütte Original
- Collection
- Senator Excellence
- Case size
- 40mm
- Case thickness
- 12.20mm
- Lug width
- 20mm
- Case material
- Stainless steel
- Case shape
- Round
- Dial
- Silver
- Crystal
- Sapphire
- Movement
- Automatic
- Calibre
- 36-04
- Functions
- Date, Moonphase
- Water resistance
- 50m
- Bracelet / strap
- Leather strap
- Strap colour
- Black
- Clasp
- Deployant clasp
- Lume
- Luminous
- Retailer
- Goldsmiths
Additional specifications
- Warranty
- 2 years
Learn more about Glashütte Original
Glashütte Original is the direct corporate descendant of the East German state watchmaking industry. When the Soviet administration expropriated Glashütte's private manufacturers after the Second World War — A. Lange & Söhne among them — it consolidated them into a single enterprise, VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe, which produced watches for the Eastern Bloc for four decades.
After reunification the enterprise was privatised, and in 1994 it took the name Glashütte Original. It therefore inherits both the archives and the tooling of the pre-war houses and the industrial capacity built under the GDR.
That inheritance shows in vertical integration unusual even at the high end. The company makes its own movements, and its own dials, through the Pforzheim dial manufactory it acquired in 2006 — a capability most houses buy in.
The house signatures are German: three-quarter plates, duplex swan-neck fine adjustment, hand-engraved balance cocks, and skeletonised rotors in double-G form. The Panorama Date, a large date display where both discs sit on one plane so no dividing line interrupts the numerals, is its most distinctive complication and a deliberate improvement on the standard big-date module.
The Senator, Sixties, and Seventies collections cover classical and retro-industrial ground respectively. Swatch Group acquired the company in 2000.
- 1951
- The Glashütte manufacturers are consolidated into VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe.
- 1994
- The privatised company takes the Glashütte Original name.
- 2000
- Acquired by the Swatch Group.
- 2006
- The Pforzheim dial manufactory is brought in-house.
Also in 5 collections
This watch appears in Stainless Steel Watches (2,581), Automatic Watches (1,570), Leather Strap Watches (860), Silver Dial Watches (576) and Dress Watches (475).
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What the specifications mean
A mechanical watch for everyday wear.
Strengths
- 40mm suits most wrists
- Sapphire crystal, which resists scratching
- Luminous hands and markers for low light
- One of Glashütte Original's more premium watches
Worth knowing
- 50m suits rain and handwashing, not swimming
Glashütte Original Senator Excellence Panorama Date alternatives
Watches from other brands at a similar price, style and size, so you can see what else your budget can buy.
| Specification | 1-36-04-02-05-30 | 49555-52-132-BB60 | 18.3300.3604/69.C922 |
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| Price | £21,800 | £18,400 | £21,300 |
| Case size | 40mm | 40mm | 39.5mm |
| Water resistance | 50m | 30m | 100m |
| Movement | Automatic | Automatic | Automatic |
| Strap | Leather strap | Leather strap | Leather strap |
| Power reserve | — | 46 hours | 60 hours |
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Frequently asked questions, and things you should know about this watch
Can I swim with it?
Showering yes, swimming no. 50m covers splashes and brief immersion, but a swimming stroke generates well above the pressure that figure describes.
Water resistance explainedWill the glass scratch?
Unlikely. Sapphire is second only to diamond in hardness and shrugs off everyday marking.
Sapphire, mineral and acrylic comparedDoes it need a battery?
No. It is automatic — the motion of your wrist winds it, and there is no cell to replace.
Quartz, automatic and solar comparedWhat size strap does it take?
20mm. Any strap of that width will fit, and on most modern watches quick-release bars make the swap a two-minute job with no tools.
Is it a men's or women's watch?
Listed as men's, though at 40mm it sits in the range that suits anyone.
Cheapest place to buy
Both Mappin & Webb and Goldsmiths list it at £21,800, so choose on delivery and warranty rather than price.
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