This year, Glashütte Original is marking 180 years of fine watchmaking in the Saxon town of Glashütte. To celebrate the anniversary, the manufacture is releasing watches that stay true to local traditions, expressed through their colours, complications and materials. In July, the brand presented a special edition with a dial inspired by the Ore Mountains and featuring a flying tourbillon, limited to 50 pieces. The next in line is the new Glashütte Original PanoMaticCalendar – a second special edition, this time limited to 150 pieces, with a dial colour that captures the blue tones of dawn.
Before the arrival of electric light, the working day of watchmakers followed the rhythm of daylight. Since the assembly of tiny components required bright, even light, candles and oil lamps were unsuitable. Watchmakers therefore began early in the morning and placed their benches by the window to use the best hours of natural light. This tradition provided the inspiration for the new PanoMaticCalendar, whose dial is finished in a blue shade reminiscent of the early morning sky.
The layout follows the familiar formula of the Pano collection, based on the principles of the Golden Ratio. On one side, the off-centre display of the larger hours and minutes and the smaller seconds subdial is balanced on the other by a moon phase at two o’clock and the Panorama Date at four o’clock. As an annual calendar, the watch also includes a retrograde month display between three and six o’clock. Twelve apertures in a blue-tinted sapphire disc each represent one month, while a ring beneath advances once every month to frame the correct numeral. Working together with the Panorama Date, the mechanism accounts for months of different lengths – only once a year, on 1 March, is a manual correction required.
The dial is completed with signature details from Glashütte Original: a fine vinyl-style pattern – a concentric guilloché – decorating the frames of the hour and seconds subdials as well as the outer ring. Heat-blued hands, applied white-gold indices and luminous dots with Super-LumiNova ensure good legibility in all conditions.
Alongside the dial, the movement itself takes centre stage in the design of this new model. The dial has been partially skeletonised to reveal the manufacture calibre 92-11 beneath. From the dial side, one can admire the rhodium-plated three-quarter plate decorated with Glashütte stripes – broader and deeper in comparison to their Geneva counterpart – as well as bevelled and polished edges and heat-blued screws. The skeletonised construction also exposes the date discs of the Panorama Date and several gears, allowing the movement of the mechanism to be followed in real time.
Turning the Glashütte Original PanoMaticCalendar over, the sapphire crystal caseback offers further views of the calibre 92-11. Visible are the off-centre, openworked rotor with a gold oscillating weight, and the swan-neck fine adjustment, which acts via the regulator on the silicon balance spring – a component resistant to both temperature fluctuations and magnetic fields. This balance spring is mounted within a solid-gold balance wheel fitted with regulating screws. Together, these components deliver a frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour and a power reserve of 100 hours.
As with every watch from Glashütte Original, the movement of this model is decorated, adjusted and assembled by hand in the manufacture. The brand, whose unbroken history dates back to 1845, produces up to 95% of all movement components in-house. And since June 2025, with the opening of its own dial manufacture in Glashütte, the brand has also been producing its dials in-house.
The movement is housed in a case measuring 42 mm in diameter, 12.4 mm in height, and 49.28 mm from lug to lug. Completing the design are either a Louisiana alligator leather strap or a high-quality textile strap, both of which complement the blue colour scheme.
The new limited-edition Glashütte Original PanoMaticCalendar in the Blue of Dawn will be available from 27 August 2025 in all Glashütte Original boutiques and at selected retailers worldwide. The edition is limited to just 150 pieces. The new model is priced at 43,200 euros on a leather strap.
Glashütte Original
PanoMaticCalendar
Louisiana alligator leather strap: 1-92-11-01-03-61
Synthetic fabric strap: 1-92-11-01-03-64
Platinum
Diameter: 42 mm
Height: 12.4 mm
Lug-to-lug: 49.28 mm
50 metres
Skeletonised, coated in blue, fine matt “vinyl” finish, luminous hour dots with Super-LumiNova, polished white gold appliques
Blue Louisiana alligator leather or blue synthetic fabric, platinum folding clasp
Calibre 92-11
Automatic winding
100 hours
28,800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz)
Hours, minutes and small second, moon phase, annual calendar with Panorama Date and retrograde month display
EUR 43,200
