Glashutte Original

Glashütte Original (Glashuette - Glashutte) watches for men and women.
The reunion of Germany caused VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe to become Glashütter Uhrenbetrieb GmbH, a limited company. This firm is the legal successor to all of the previously founded companies belonging to Glashütte’s watch communityThe “Original Glashütte“ logo appeared on a Deutsche Präzisionsuhrenfabrik Glashütte pocket watch dial for the first time in 1921. thus, the company was able to set itself apart from the imitation pieces of “System Glashütte”.
Glashütte Original is a German watchmaking company founded in 1994 by the privatization of VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe. VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe was an East German conglomerate formed in 1951 fro m the watch companies based in Glashütte. This included A. Lange & Söhne, founded in 1845. Glashütte Original is one of the few watchmakers that uses its own movements, and it has 10 proprietary movement innovations. Glashütte Original is currently owned by The Swatch Group. In the spring, the manufactory celebrated its first new appearance on the market with a collection of three-handed automatics, an automatic chronograph, and a manually wound chronometer.
1995 :
An absolute highlight on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Glashütte watch production was the most complicated and expensive watch in Glashütte’s modern era: the Julius Assmann 1 – a masterpiece outfitted with a perpetual calendar and a flying tourbillon. This masterpiece can be worn as both a pocket and a wristwatch. 1996 : the 1845 – the founding year of the first watch manufactory in Glashütte – gives this popular collection outfitted wtih manually wound Calibers 42 and 49 its name. The 1845 Special Edition model Alfred Helwig Flying Tourbillon, limited to only 25 pieces and outfitted with very fine Caliber 41, was sold out within just a short period of time. With its new Sport collection the manufactory won over ever more fans of striking, robust watches.
1997 :
For the production of the special edition model Julius Assmann 2, the Glashütte Original watch manufactory decided to cooperate for the first time with the porcelain manufactory Meissen. The fine mechanics of Caliber 52 are crowned with a dial made of paper-thin, hand-painted Meissen porcelain. Worldwide there were only 25 pieces – each one definitely a unique piece. Today already a classic: the Senator Edition was impressive with its new Caliber 39, the first automatic movement with swan-neck fine adjustment and a skeletonized rotor. And the ladies weren’t forgotten either: the Lady Sport Edition pleased sports-oriented females and ambitioned businesswomen alike.
1998 :
Edgy – the new Karree models of the 1845, Senator, and Lady collections demonstrated a multifaceted uniting of avant-garde and classic. For the special edition model Karree Tourbillon, a special manually wound shaped movement, Caliber 43, with a fully new movement design was created. The cooperation with the porcelain manufactory Meissen was successfully continued in the 1845 Meissen and Lady Meissen editions. 1999: Haute horlogerie of the finest sort: The new Senator Perpetual Calendar united demanding complications with the functionality of the modern. In the same year, the readers of the Austrian magazine Die Presse crowned this model the winner in the competition’s most interesting category: “Complicated Watch.”
2000: The Senator Perpetual Calender was honored with the sought-after title Watch of the Year by the readers of the German watch magazine ArmbandUhren and the German national newspaper Welt am Sonntag. With the introduction of the PanoRetroGraph, there was simultaneously a world premiere: the first mechanical chronograph that can also count backwards. Its off-center dial design was also the platform for the new PanoDate Edition. Now it was the goal to make this innovative manufactory art directly tangible for even more watch lovers. Through a strategic alliance with the Swatch Group AG, the manufactory was able to find quick entry to competent watch dealers all over the world.
2001: Connoisseurs of mechanical watches honored the innovation and horological demand of the PanoRetroGraph with the title of Watch of the Year. Glashütte tradition was also always present: the Alfred Helwig Tourbillon 2 represented another exclusive homage to the life’s work of one of the best master watchmakers. His portrait was displayed on a solid gold dial plate on the rose gold model and on a hand-painted plate made of Meissen porcelain on the platinum model. Additionally, at its first Glashütte Watch Boutique in Frankfurt the manufactory presented not only the current collection, but also historical special editions, escapement models, and marine chronometers.
2002: The new Alfred Helwig School of Watchmaking offers up to fifteen young people a modern education in watchmaking and tool making each year. Alongside the PanoReserve with its new duplex swan-neck spring and the PanoGraph, the Julius Assmann 3 model attracted a great number of looks in the same year: very finely skeletonized and outfitted with a flying tourbillon, a retrograde date hand, and a power reserve display.
2003 : Three models within the PanoDate Edition defined a new automatic line. Caliber 90 of the PanoMaticDate and PanoMaticLunar show an individual face with their eccentric winding rotors and duplex swan-neck springs. The limited PanoMaticTourbillon joined the flying tourbillon with the comfort of automatic winding. Innovative concepts were also in evidence at the new factory in Glashütte: a transparent style of architecture and tours on the learning path invited the interested party to take a direct look at Glashütte Original’s lavish style of production. Additional concerts, readings, and exhibitions created an open meeting place.
2004 : New types of solutions inside and out: the PanoMaticChrono convinced watch lovers of this with various dial levels and a patented bilaterally winding stepped gear that made a targeted transmission of winding energy to the serial spring barrels possible. In the same year, the PanoMaticChrono won first prize at International Watch’s readers’ vote in the category “Chronograph. The Saeculum Glashütte Original Music Festival Prize proved the manufactory’s cultural commitment. True to the motto “quality is not a question of time,” from this point on the special life’s work of an artist has been honored.
2005 : After 2000 and 2001, a Glashütte Original was once again awarded the title Watch of the Year at Baselworld. With a decisive lead over the competition, the PanoMaticChrono was very obviously high on connoisseurs’ lists. The new design of the Senator interpreted a classic men’s watch with a modern twist. Its excellently finished Caliber 100 was for the first time outfitted with a reset mechanism. Sport Evolution also showed itself in a new, expressive look with an innovative buckle.
The Star Collection defined the glamorous, precious line and was outfitted with manufacture movements 65 and 90 on the inside.
Very publicly, Glashütte Original presented horological perfection with a truly unique piece: the Frauenkirchenuhr. This masterpiece’s dial was made of Meissen porcelain and bore as its motif Dresden’s Church of our Lady (Frauenkirche). The proceeds from its auction were donated to the rebuilding of the famous church. For the second time, Glashütte Original honored special achievements in the musical arts: The Saceulum Music Festival Award 2005 went to famed American ballet choreographer John Neumeier.

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