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Glashütte Original PanoReserve Mens Watch
Ref. 1-65-01-26-12-35
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The PanoReserve belongs to Glashütte Original's Pano family, a line built around an asymmetrical dial architecture that places the subsidiary seconds and hour chapter to the left, leaving the right side to carry the twin-disc Panorama Date and a power reserve arc. The arrangement is not ornamental: each complication occupies precisely the space it needs, and the result reads clearly without crowding. What justifies the case as a vehicle for all this is what sits inside it. The Calibre 65-01 is wound by hand and decorated in the full Saxon manner — a three-quarter plate finished with Glashütte ribbing, a duplex swan-neck spring governing the regulation, hand-engraved balance bridges, blued screws and screw-set gold chatons. At 11.7mm the case wears trimmer than the complication count might suggest, and the blue Louisiana alligator strap, matched to the dial, gives the whole thing a coherence that would be lost against a contrasting colour. The 42-hour power reserve indicator earns its place here in a way it rarely does on an automatic: on a hand-wound movement, knowing where you stand is genuinely useful information.
- Reference
- 1-65-01-26-12-35
- Brand
- Glashütte Original
- Collection
- Pano
- Case size
- 40mm
- Case thickness
- 11.7mm
- Lug width
- 20mm
- Case material
- Stainless steel
- Case shape
- Round
- Dial
- Blue
- Crystal
- Sapphire
- Movement
- Manual
- Calibre
- 65-01
- Functions
- Date, Small seconds, Power reserve indicator
- Water resistance
- 50m
- Bracelet / strap
- Leather strap
- Strap colour
- Blue
- Clasp
- Deployant clasp
- Lume
- Luminous
- Retailer
- Mappin & Webb
Additional specifications
- Power reserve
- 42 hours
- 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 Back in Stock (3,734), Stainless Steel Watches (2,581), Leather Strap Watches (860), Blue Dial Watches (714) and Dress Watches (475).
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What the specifications mean
Strengths
- 40mm suits most wrists
- Sapphire crystal, which resists scratching
- 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
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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 hand-wound, so it needs winding every day or two but never a battery.
Quartz, automatic and solar comparedHow long does it run for when it's not worn?
About 42 hours fully wound — enough to survive a night off the wrist, but not a full weekend.
What 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 £9,900, so choose on delivery and warranty rather than price.
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