Glashütte Original Senator Excellence Panorama Date Moon Phase 40mm Mens Watch Grey

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Glashütte Original Senator Excellence Panorama Date Moon Phase 40mm Mens Watch Grey

Name: Glashütte Original Senator Excellence Panorama Date Moon Phase 40mm Mens Watch Grey
Brand: Glashütte Original
SKU: 1-36-24-02-02-71
Availability: InStock

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Among our 32 Glashütte Original watchesThis watch£11,600

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Stepping up in Glashütte Original's range

The Senator Excellence line is where Glashütte Original makes its case for German horology as a serious alternative to Swiss haute établissement — and the Calibre 36-24 inside this watch is central to that argument. Built entirely in-house in Glashütte, it runs for 100 hours on a single barrel, carries a silicon hairspring for magnetic resistance, and uses a swan-neck spring with regulator-free fine adjustment rather than the index system most manufacturers rely on. Through the sapphire caseback you can see a hand-engraved balance cock and a skeletonised rotor with a 21-carat gold oscillation weight — finishing that belongs to a much smaller category of movement. On the wrist, 40mm in stainless steel at 12.2mm thick is a considered proportion for everything this dial is asked to do. The galvanic grey carries applied blue Roman numerals and blued hands, and the two complications sit without crowding: the Panorama Date at 4 o'clock uses the brand's characteristic wide window that makes the display genuinely legible at a glance, while the moonphase between 10 and 11 gives the upper dial room to breathe. Both can be set from the crown alone, with no case-side correctors to hunt for. The integrated bracelet matches the case finishing — brushed surfaces against polished edges — and the push-button folding clasp keeps the transition from case to wrist unbroken. It is the kind of detail that registers not immediately but after a few weeks of daily wear.

Reference: 1-36-24-02-02-71
Brand: Glashütte Original
Collection: Senator
Case size: 40mm
Case thickness: 12.20mm
Lug width: 20mm
Case material: Stainless steel
Case shape: Round
Dial: Grey
Crystal: Sapphire
Movement: Automatic
Calibre: 36-24
Functions: Date, Moonphase
Water resistance: 50m
Bracelet / strap: Stainless steel bracelet
Strap colour: Silver
Clasp: Folding clasp
Lume: Luminous
Retailer: Goldsmiths

Additional specifications

Power reserve: 100 hours

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.

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Also in 5 collections

This watch appears in the Glashütte Original Senator range (7), Back in Stock (3,734), Stainless Steel Watches (2,581), Automatic Watches (1,570) and Grey Dial Watches (197).

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What the specifications mean

A mechanical watch for everyday wear.

Strengths

40mm suits most wrists
Sapphire crystal, which resists scratching
100-hour reserve survives a weekend off the wrist
Luminous hands and markers for low light
Sits in the lower half of Glashütte Original's range as we list it

Worth knowing

50m suits rain and handwashing, not swimming

Best forEveryday wear

Less suited toSwimming

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